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Study of hyperfragments

II. — short-range hyperfragments and short tracks

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

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From a sample of 553 hyperfragments produced in 23 GeV/c proton interactions with emulsion nuclei, the hyperfragments of range ≥ 10 μm, have been studied. In order to understand the nature of these short-range hyperfragments, the emission of short tracks (R≤ 10 μm) and8Li fragments from interactions of 23 GeV/c protons and 3.5 GeV/c pions with emulsion nuclei have also been studied; for this 5968Li fragments have been used. From these studies it has been concluded that i) the effective Coulomb barrier for the emission of8Li fragments is smaller by a factor of ∼ 3 than the classical one; ii) a broad mass spectrum of nuclei is required to understand the range distribution of short tracks; this conclusion also follows from the Nh distribution of the parent stars; and iii) among the hyperfragments of range (0 ÷ 5) μm and (5÷10) μm, at least 34% and 74% respectively have mass numbers ≲ 50.

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In un campione di 553 iperframmenti prodotti nelle interazioni di protoni di 23 GeV/o con nuclei delle emulsioni, si sono studiati gli iperframmenti con peroorso ≤ 10 μm. Per individuare la natura di questi iperframmenti di breve percorso, si è studiata anche l’emissione di oorte tracce (R≤ 10 μrn) e di frammenti8Li nelle interazioni di protoni di 23 GeV/c e di pioni di 3.5 GeV/c con i nuclei delle emulsioni; a questo scopo si sono utilizzati 596 frammenti8Li. Da questi studi si è concluso ehe i) la barriera di Coulomb effettiva per l’emissione di frammenti8Li è più piccola per un fattore di ∼ 3 di quella classica; ii) è necessario un largo spettro di massa dei nuclei per capire la distribuzione dei percorsi nelle tracoe corte; questa conclusione segue anche dalla distribuzione degliN hdelle stelle generatrici; e iii) degli iperframmenti di percorso (0/5) μm e (5/10) jim, almeno 34% e 74% rispettivamente hanno numero di massa ≲50.

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Burte, D.P., Ganguli, S.N., Rao, N.K. et al. Study of hyperfragments. Nuovo Cim 36, 733–750 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02749777

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