Abstract
An angular method of identifying diffractive excitation (DE) events for interactions of a hadron beam in nuclear emulsion is applied to identifying DE events in interactions of heavy ions beams. The ‘‘apparent’’ mean free paths (MFP) of DE processes for Si) beams are 1.00±0.12, 2., and 2.2±0.4 (1.5±0.2) m, respectively, at 200, 60, and 14.6 GeV/nucleon, which corresponds to 20–10% of the MFP for total inelastic interactions. Distinctive features of diffractively excited nuclei are discussed.
- Received 21 May 1990
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.43.1410
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