Evidence for a nuclear phase transition in target nuclei after relativistic nuclear interactions

The KLM collaboration Dabrowska, A. ; Holynski, R. ; Olszewski, A. ; et al.
Z.Phys.C 59 (1993) 399-404, 1993.
Inspire Record 355033 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.40646

The degree of excitation of the emulsion target nuclei due to nuclear interactions of oxygen and sulfur projectiles at 200 GeV/nucleon incident energy has been investigated. Using the plausible assumption that the numberNb of slow particles emitted from the struck target nucleus can be interpreted as a measure of the temperatureT of the residual nucleus, we have found that there exists a critical temperatureTc of the excited target nucleus. For Ag and Br target nuclei this temperature corresponds to <Nb>≌12 and it is attained when the impact parameters are less than about 4 fm.

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Multiplicity characteristics of particles produced in C-12 emulsion collisions at 4.5-A/GeV/c

Ahmad, M.S. ; Khan, M.Q.R. ; Siddique, K.A. ; et al.
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 10 (1995) 845-857, 1995.
Inspire Record 401127 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.40450

Experimental data on multiplicities and correlations of charged particles of different types produced in collisions of 4.5 A GeV/c carbon-12 with emulsion are reported and discussed. The data are compared with the results of other experiments on nucleus–nucleus and hadron–nucleus collisions. It is found that the particle production mechanism in nucleus–nucleus collisions is almost the same as in hadron–nucleus collisions. It is also observed that the shower particles' multiplicity distributions obey a KNO type scaling law, which supports the aforementioned result.

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