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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Particle production in interactions of 200-GeV/nucleon oxygen and sulfur nuclei in nuclear emulsion

The KLM collaboration Dabrowska, A. ; Holynski, R. ; Jurak, A. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 47 (1993) 1751-1761, 1993.
Inspire Record 338512 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.40446

Oxygen and sulfur nuclei with energies of 200 GeV/nucleon have been allowed to interact in nuclear emulsions exposed at CERN. These emulsions have been scanned with a minimum bias so that essentially all the interactions occurring were detected. Nearly 1000 interactions of each projectile have been analyzed. We present results on the multiplicity distributions, the pseudorapidity distributions, and the fragmentation of the projectile and target nuclei. It is shown that the mean number of intranuclear collisions in each interaction, calculated from a superposition model, provides a useful parameter for organizing the data. We conclude that there are no significant deviations even at these energies from models, such as the venus model, describing the interactions as being the superposition of individual nucleon-nucleon collisions.

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