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The central collisions of 70 GeV/c protons with Ag, Br and Pb nuclei have been studied, with the help of BR-2 photoemulsion and emulsion of the same constitution loaded with Pb nuclei.
It is shown that the average multiplicity of produced particles (s-particles) increases slowly with increasing the atomic weight of the target nucleus. The ratio of the average multiplicity for these particles to the average charged particle multiplicity for protonproton interactions equals 3.2 forp-Ag, Br and 3.5 forp-Pb. The average multiplicities of particles from nuclear disintegration with energies for protons from 26 up to 400 MeV (g-particles) are 14.2±0.8 forp-Ag, Br and 23.0±1.0 forp-Pb corresponding to the emission of about half of all nucleons from the nucleus at the first rapid stage of interaction.
The difference of thes-particle pseudorapidity distributions forp-Ag, Br, Pb andp-p interactions at pseudorapidities larger than 4.2 can be explained by successive interactions of the incident proton with nucleus nucleons.
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Bannik, B.P., El-Naghy, A., Ibatov, R. et al. Central collisions of fast particles with heavy nuclei. Z Physik A 284, 283–286 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01406799
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