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Spurious scattering in nuclear emulsions

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

Summary

In full agreement with the results of Biswas, Peters and Rama (1) further evidence is presented on a new form of noise in scattering measurements in nuclear emulsions, which is supposed to be produced by small dislocations in the emulsion and appears to be found in every kind of emulsion. As its mean sagitta increases about proportional to the cell length, it can be mistaken for true Coulomb scattering and affects scattering measurements at > 2 GeV/c very seriously. As a possible consequence the mean energy leading to a given multiplicity of shower particles seems to have been greatly underestimated. The effect could give furthermore a bias towards low mass values at mass determinations of particles of high energies by the scattering-ionization method. The ratio of third to second differences was found to be 1.45 ± ±0.034, also not far from the value 1.30 given for Coulomb scattering.

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In perfetto accordo coi risultati di Biswas, Peters e Rama (1), si presentano ulteriori prove di una nuova forma di disturbo di cui sono affette le misure di scattering nelle emulsioni nucleari, disturbo che si ritiene causato da piccoli spostamenti nell’emulsione e sembra trovarsi in tutti i tipi di emulsione. Dato che la sua sagitta media cresce circa proporzionalmente alla lunghezza della cella, può essere confuso con lo scattering coulombiano reale e affetta molto seriamente le misure di scattering a < 2 GeV/c. Una possibile conseguenza di tale errore sembra essere una notevole sottovalutazione dell’energia media producente una determinata molteplicità di particelle negli sciami. L’effetto potrebbe anche condurre a sottovalutare i valori delle masse nelle determinazioni col metodo del rapporto scattering-ionizzazione riguardante particelle di energia elevata. Il rapporto delle differenze terze alle seconde è stato trovato essere 1.45 ±0.034, non lontano, cioè dal valore 1.30 dato per lo scattering coulombiano.

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Lohrmann, E., Teucher, M. Spurious scattering in nuclear emulsions. Nuovo Cim 3, 59–65 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02746195

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