Published July 23, 1984 | Version v1
Journal article

Production of charged pions in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

  • 1. CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 2. Lund Univ. (Sweden). Fysiska Institutionen
  • 3. Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Gustaf Werner Inst.
  • 4. CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble, 38 (France)
  • 5. Grenoble-1 Univ., 38 (France). Inst. des Sciences Nucleaires
  • 6. Bergen Univ. (Norway). Inst. of Physics
  • 7. Niels Bohr Inst., Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • 8. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania (Italy)

Description

Cross sections for the production of π+ and π- have been measured over a wide range of angles for 12C+7Li, 12C+12C and 12C+208Pb collisions at 60A, 75A and 85A MeV. Energy distributions are less steep and absolute yields of pions larger than expected from a straightforward Fermi gas nucleon-nucleon scattering prescription. The apparent velocity of the system in which the π+ emission is symmetric, is closer to the nucleus-nucleus c.m. velocity than to the mean speed system. The Coulomb-corrected π-/π+ ratio is close to unity for 12C+12C. The corresponding ratio for 12C+208Pb is, however, much larger than expected from the neutron excess in 208Pb only. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nucl. Phys., A
Journal Volume
423
Journal Issue
3
Series
CODEN: NUPAB.;Nucl. Phys., A.
Journal Page Range
511-524
ISSN
0375-9474