Search for Anomalous Fragments in 1.8 A GeV sup 40 Ar Reactions in Nuclear Emulsions

摘要

Results are presented from an investigation of the mean free path in nuclear emulsion of multiply charged fragments, produced by 1.8 A GeV Argon nuclei. Charge identification of 6965 fragments with charges Z > or equal to 2, producing 2192 secondary interactions has been made. No dependence of the mean free path on the distance from the preceding collision is observed and thus our result is consistent with the non-existence of anomalons. (ERA citation 12:007731)