We report the measurement of secondary charge and isotopic fragmentation cross sections in a liquid hydrogen target from 30 incident beams of relativistic nuclei ranging from 10B to 55Mn. These individual beams were obtained by initially accelerating 580 MeV/nucleon 40Ar and 630 MeV/nucleon 56Fe nuclei and letting these nuclei interact in a thin CH2 target in the beam line. The fragments of these interactions were then focused according to their A/Z ratios onto a hydrogen target and the charge and isotopic composition of the fragmentation in this target was measured using our standard cosmic ray telescope. Several of these nuclei have had their cross sections measured previously and a comparison with earlier data confirms the estimated precision ∼5% of the new cross section data. The 30 nuclei for which the cross sections were measured doubles the previously reported data for 15 nuclei from several experiments in the charge range from Li to Ni. The systematics of these new cross sections are discussed both with respect to the charge changing and isotopic cross sections. These systematics will lead to improvements in the productive capability of the formulas used to describe the unmeasured cross sections. It should be noted, however, that from the point of view of the propagation of galactic cosmic rays through the interstellar medium, which is one of the main goals of this experiment, the fragmentation cross sections have now been measured at at least one energy for over 98% of the arriving particles with Z=3–28.
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The fragmentation of 1.2 GeV per nucleon La139 nuclei has been studied. Total charge changing cross sections for H (CH2-C), C, and Pb target nuclei, and elemental production cross sections for C and CH2 targets for 1≤ΔZ≤30 have been measured. For heavy projectile fragments, the projected transverse momenta extracted are generally larger than predicted by models based on the internal momenta of nucleons in nuclei. Fits to the heavy fragment momentum distributions yield additional transverse momenta or ‘‘bounce-off’’ which range from ≃500 to 1000 MeV/c.
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