Stopping power measurements with 17-GeV/c protons at the AGS or inclusive proton spectra from proton-nucleus interactions at 17 GeV/c

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5918665

Remsberg, L P; Barton, D S; Bunce, G; Carroll, A S; Chu, Y Y; Cumming, J B; Haustein, P E; Katcoff, S; Ludlam, T; Makdisi, Y I

The problem of nuclear stopping power and its importance to the study of nucleus-nucleus collisions at very high energies was brought to general attention one year ago at Quark Matter 83 by Busza and Goldhaber. In this context, nuclear stopping power can be thought of as the rate of energy (or rapidity) loss of a proton traversing nuclear matter. It does not directly address the important question of energy deposition. Busza and Goldhaber showed that knowledge of nuclear stopping power is needed to estimate the minimum center-of-mass energy required in nucleus-nucleus collisions to ensure the production of very high temperatures at low baryon density. At cm energies of about 1 to 10 GeV/A, the stopping power is important in the estimation of the maximum baryon densities attainable in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The data presented are more relevant to this latter point.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA); Southeastern Massachusetts Univ., North Dartmouth (USA); Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5918665
• Report Number(s): BNL-36012; CONF-8410210-7; ON: DE85006961
• Resource Relation: Conference: 7. high energy heavy ion study conference, Darmstadt, F.R. Germany, 8 Oct 1984; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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EXPERIMENTAL DATA
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