A COMPARISON OF PION AND NUCLEON INTERACTIONS IN NUCLEAR EMULSIONS BETWEEN 10$sup 11$ AND 10$sup 13$ eV
Using data obtained from a 10-liter emulsion stack by the Sydney group and a 22-liter stack by the Chicago group it is shown that at energies aroung 1000 Bev: a) the average number of shower particles in secondary jets (mainiy produced by pions) is about half that in jets produced by protons, b) the spread of multiplicities in pion-nucleon encounters at a given energy is small, c) the spread of multiplicities in proton produced jets is considerable and in good agreement with the predictions of tunnel theory assuming a geometric interaction cross section for protons, and d) the average number of heavy prongs in secondary jets (mostly produced by pions) decreases with increasing energy for about 15 at 6 Bev to about 3 at 5000 Bev. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Sydney
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-029868
- OSTI ID:
- 4842161
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Phys., Journal Name: Nuclear Phys. Vol. Vol: 26
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS AT ENERGIES GREATER THAN 10$sup 12$ ev
NUCLEAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN 10$sup 3$ AND 10$sup 5$ Gev