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Spurious scattering in nuclear emulsions

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

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Spurious scattering has been investigated in three stacks of stripped emulsions; one of these has been exposed to the 4.5 GeV π-meson beam at Berkeley, the other two to cosmic radiation. Multiple scattering measurements performed on flat tracks of high energy particles show that the spurious scattering in two of these stacks is appreciably smaller than that obtained byBiswas et al., Lohrmann andTeucher, andFay and that reliable measurements up to 5 GeV (for singly charged particles) can be made using a basic cell size of one mm. Clearly spurious scattering is a function of the quality of the stack. A procedure for eliminating spurious scattering is suggested which in particular cases permits measurements to be extended to higher energy regions.

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Lo scattering spurio è stato esaminato in tre pacchi di emulsioni pelate; uno di questi è stato esposto al fascio di mesoni π di 4.5 GeV di Berkeley, gli altri due alla radiazione cosmica. Misure di scattering multiplo eseguite su traiettorie piane di particelle di alta energia mostrano che lo scattering spurio in due di questi pacchi è considerevolmente minore di quello ottenuto daBiswas et al., Lohrmann eTeuchee, eFay, e che si possono eseguire misure attendibili flno a 5 GeV (per particelle a carica singola) servendosi di una cella base di 1 mm. Lo scattering spurio è chiaramente funzione della qualità del pacco. Si propone un procedimento atto ad eliminare lo scattering spurio che in casi particolari permette di estendere le misure a energie superiori.

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On leave of absence from the University of Ceylon.

On leave of absence from the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

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Brisbout, F.A., Dahanayake, C., Engler, A. et al. Spurious scattering in nuclear emulsions. Nuovo Cim 3, 1400–1410 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02785016

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