On the fragmentation of the projectile in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

An equation is derived which describes the scattering of two nuclei based on individual nucleon-nucleon collisions. Calculations are made for the 16O+9Be system. Where the initial projectile and target densities are of Gaussian form. The number of particles abraded from 16O, the excitation energy of the resulting fragment and its recoil momentum have been determined, and compared with experimental data. (C.F.)