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Study of hyperfragments

I. - Hyperfragments Produced by 3.5GeV/c Pions

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

Summary

210 hyperfragments, produced in interactions of 3.5 GeV/c pions with emulsion nuclei have been analysed in detail. The results provide strong evidence that an appreciable fraction ( 35% ) of short hyperfragments (ranges ≤ 10 μm) have masses ≤ 50 times that of a nucleon. The ratio of nonmesonic to π--mesonic decays in found to be ≤ 1.4 for He hyperfragments, ~ 12 for Li hyperfragments and ~ 140 for short hyperfragments. The decay of A via a virtual Σ-state appears to be important.

Riassunto

Si sono dettagliatamente analizzati 210 iperframmenti prodotti in interazioni di pioni di 3.5 GeV/c con nuclei dell’emulsione. I risultati costituiscono una prova convincente che una frazione apprezzabile (≥35%) degli iperframmenti di breve percorso (range ≤ 10 μm) hanno masse circa 50 volte minori di quella del nucleone. Si trova ehe il rapporto dei decadimenti non mesonici a quelli in π- è ≤ 1.4 per gli iperframmenti di He, ~ 12 per gli iperframmenti di Li e ~ 140 per iperframmenti di breve percorso. Il decadimento dei A passando per uno stato Σ sembra essere importante.

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Ganguli, S.N., Rao, N.K. & Swami, M.S. Study of hyperfragments. Nuovo Cim 36, 35–49 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02750658

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