Negative pion production by 800 MeV/A C, Ne, and Ar beams

I. Tanihata, S. Nagamiya, O. Chamberlain, M. C. Lemaire, S. Schnetzer, G. Shapiro, H. Steiner

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Abstract

Energy and angular distributions of π's produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have been measured at 800 MeV/A incident energy. Cross sections for low-energy pions (Ecm ≈ 100-200 MeV) are forward and backward peaked in the nucleon-nucleon c.m. frame. Such anisotropy becomes weaker for higher energy pions. The shape of the energy spectra at θcm = 90° is approximately exponential. Their slopes are steeper than those observed for protons. The data are discussed in terms of several models.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)349-353
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume87
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 19 1979

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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