Cascade-model studies of pion and strange-particle production in C on Ta reactions at E/A=3.36 GeV

Cross sections, multiplicities and average momenta of pions, lambda particles, neutral kaons and antikaons obtained in C on Ta reactions are analysed within the cascade model. Inclusive measurements of the transverse and longitudinal momenta as well as the di-lambda multiplicities are satisfactorily reproduced. The overestimate of the pion multiplicity measured in coincidence with lambda particles indicates that the failure of the cascade model in describing the reaction for small impact parameters persists also at high bombarding energies. (orig.)