Fragmentation of relativistic nuclei in peripheral interactions in nuclear track emulsion

Journal Article · Mon Sep 15 04:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physics of Atomic Nuclei

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778808090111· OSTI ID:21404705

Bradnova, V ^[1]; Chernyavsky, M M; Goncharova, L A ^[2]; Haiduc, M ^[3]; Kachalova, N A ^[1]; Kharlamov, S P ^[2]; Kovalenko, A D; Malakhov, A I ^[1]; Moiseenko, A A ^[4]; Orlova, G I; Peresadko, N G; Polukhina, N G ^[2]; Rukoyatkin, P A; Rusakova, V V ^[1]; Sarkisyan, V R ^[4]; Stanoeva, R ^[5]; Shchedrina, T V; Vokal, S; Vokalova, A ^[1]

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1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russian Federation)
2. Russian Academy of Sciences, Lebedev Institute of Physics (Russian Federation)
3. Institute of Space Sciences (Romania)
4. Institute of Physics (Armenia)
5. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Nuclear Research and NuclearEnergy (Bulgaria)

The technique of nuclear track emulsions is used to explore the fragmentation of light relativistic nuclei down to the most peripheral interactions: nuclear 'white' stars. A complete pattern of the relativistic dissociation of a 8B nucleus with target fragment accompaniment is presented. Relativistic dissociation {sup 9}Be {yields} 2{alpha} is explored using significant statistics, and a relative contribution of {sup 8}Be decays from 0+ and 2+ states is established. Target fragment accompaniments are shown for relativistic fragmentation {sup 14}N {yields} 3He +H and {sup 22}Ne {yields} 5He. The leading role of the electromagnetic dissociation on heavy nuclei with respect to breakups on target protons is demonstrated in all these cases. It is possible to conclude that the peripheral dissociation of relativistic nuclei in nuclear track emulsion is a unique tool to study many-body systems composed of the lightest nuclei and nucleons in the energy scale relevant for nuclear astrophysics.

• OSTI ID: 21404705
• Journal Information: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Journal Name: Physics of Atomic Nuclei Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 71; ISSN 1063-7788; ISSN PANUEO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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