The use of radioanalytical techniques to study intermediate energy, relativistic, and ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions

The use of radioanalytical techniques to study heavy ion induced nuclear reactions offers some distinct advantages over conventional physical techniques. Among these are unit Z and A resultion in detecting the reaction products high sensitivity for low probability events lack of low energy thresholds or cutoffs in measuring reaction product energy spectra economical use of accelerator time and simple, portable experimental apparatus allowing broad survey measurements of reaction mechanisms at a variety of nuclear particle accelerators. We describe examples of these advantages from our research in nuclear chemistry. (author) 15 refs.; 4 figs