Associated multiparticle production and intra-nuclear cascading

In the existing experiments on multiparticle production off nuclei it is difficult to distinguish between intra-nuclear cascading of secondaries and the other mechanisms of production which give important information on the short-time development of hadronic interactions. It is argued that by selecting nuclear interactions with no or little shadowing one can unambiguously establish the existence (or lack) of intra-nuclear cascading. It is suggested that investigation of associated particle production in the photoproduction of heavy vector mesons from nuclei and in inelastic lepton-nucleus interaction is a promising method of analyzing intranuclear cascading. (Auth.)