Channels of projectile fragmentation of 16O nucleus in nuclear emulsion

• Published in: Journal of physics communications Vol. 2; no. 3
• Main Authors: El-Nagdy, M S, Abdelsalam, A, Badawy, B M, Zarubin, P I, Abdalla, A M, Yasin, M Nabil, Saber, A, Mohamed, M M, Ahmed, M M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 06.03.2018
• Subjects: alpha cluster; delta ray; projectile fragmentation
• ISSN: 2399-6528; 2399-6528
• DOI: 10.1088/2399-6528/aab17a

Experimental data are presented on the projectile fragments emitted from non-central collisions of 3.7 A GeV 16O projectiles with nuclear emulsion. Charges of all projectile fragments are measured carefully and identified using δ-ray distributions. Each distribution is fitted by Gaussian shape and represented one of the possible charges of projectile fragments. Topology of 16O fragmentation is reported and compared with that obtained at 60 A GeV. The multiplicity distributions for 16O projectile fragments with charge 3 ≤ Z ≤ 7 are studied and it classified according to the size of the target nucleus. In this range of energy, the mechanism responsible for projectile fragmentation is independent on its energy. Experimental observations proved that there is high probability for production -clusters than all other nuclear fragments. The production rate of -clusters fragments due to 16O fragmentations is studied at range of energies 2-200 A GeV. The dependence of -clusters on target components (CNO and AgBr) is formulated. Experimental data indicates that -cluster represents the main unit of the structure of atomic nucleus.