Abstract
It has been shown by other workers that some of the fragments of relativistic heavy-ion collisions have an anomalously short interaction length but may revert to normal nuclei within ∼ sec. Lead-glass detectors were used to search for delayed high-energy rays emitted from projectile fragments of 940-MeV/u interactions with a steel target. The present negative result casts doubt on some recent models in which anomalous states decay electromagnetically to normal nuclei.
- Received 1 June 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.775
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