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When the energy of a nuclear collision is sufficiently high some aspects of the process such as the energy and angular distributions of the light fragments produced can be treated by assuming straight line trajectories for the first stage of the process (see, for example, work on the fireball model [Gosset 77], the firestreak model [Myers 78], [Gosset 78], [Cecil 80], the rows-on-rows model [Hufner 77], [Hatch 79], [Knoll 79a], etc.). When such a description is assumed, the asymptotic density distribution for particles of type j in momentum space Fj(p) (which is the measured quantity) can be written as
where
is the differential element for summing over the values of the impact parameter 6, and
is the differential element for summing over the projections of the target and projectile density distributions on the x-y plane normal to the beam direction.
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Hasse, R.W., Myers, W.D. (1988). Medium- and High-Energy Nuclear Collisions. In: Geometrical Relationships of Macroscopic Nuclear Physics. Springer Series in Nuclear and Particle Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83017-4_11
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