The properties of the relativistic alpha fragments produced in interactions of 84 Kr at around 1 A GeV in nuclear emulsion are investigated. The experimental results are compared with the similar results obtained from various projectiles with emulsion interactions at different energies. The total, partial nuclear crosssections and production rates of alpha fragmentation channels in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions and their dependence on the mass number and initial energy of the incident projectile nucleus are investigated. The yields of multiple alpha fragments emitted from the interactions of projectile nuclei with the nuclei of light, medium and heavy target groups of emulsion-detector are discussed and they indicate that the projectile-breakup mechanism seems to be free from the target mass number. It is found that the multiplicity distributions of alpha fragments are well described by the Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling presentation. The mean multiplicities of the freshly produced or newly created charged secondary particles, normally known as shower and secondary particles associated with target in the events where the emission of alpha fragments were accompanied by heavy projectile fragments having Z ³ 3 seem to be constant as the alpha fragments multiplicity increases, and exhibit a behavior independent of the alpha fragments multiplicity.
The emission of projectile fragments alpha has been studied in 84 Kr interactions with nuclei of the nuclear emulsion detector composition at relativistic energy below 2 GeV per nucleon. The angular distribution of projectile fragments alpha in terms of transverse momentum could not be explained by a straight and clean-cut collision geometry hypothesis of Participant -Spectator (PS) Model. Therefore, it is assumed that projectile fragments alpha were produced from two separate sources that belong to the projectile spectator region differing drastically in their temperatures. It has been clearly observed that the emission of projectile fragments alpha are from two different sources. The contribution of projectile fragments alpha from contact layer or hot source is a few percent of the total emission of projectile fragments alphas. Most of the projectile fragments alphas are emitted from the cold source.
A projectile ( 84 Kr 36 ) having kinetic energy around 1 A GeV was used to expose NIKFI BR-2 emulsion target. A total of 700 inelastic events are used in the present studies on projectile fragments. The emission angle of the projectile fragments are strongly affected by charge of the other projectile fragments emitted at same time with different emission angle is observed. The angular distribution studies show symmetrical nature for lighter charge projectile fragments. The symmetrical nature decreased with the charge of projectile fragments. At ~4 o of emission angle for double charge projectile fragments, the momentum transfer during interaction is similar for various target species of emulsion were observed. We also observed a small but significant amplitude peaks on both side of the big peak for almost all light charge projectile fragments having different delta angle values. It reflects that there are few percent of projectile fragments that are coming from the decay of heavy projectile fragments or any other process.
Present article focuses on the interactions of 84 Kr 36 having kinetic energy around 1 GeV per nucleon with NIKFI BR-2 nuclear emulsion detector's targets, that can reveal important features of some compound multiplicity. The observation showed that the width of the compound multiplicity distributions and value of the mean compound multiplicity have linear relation with the mass number of the projectile as well as colliding system.
The article focuses on the multiplicity distributions of shower particles and target fragments for the interaction of 84 Kr 36 possessing kinetic energy of ~1 GeV per nucleon with NIKFI BR-2 Nuclear Emulsion target. The experimental multiplicity distributions of shower particles, grey fragments, black fragments, and heavily ionization fragments are well described by the multicomponent Erlang distribution of the multi-source thermal model. We observed a linear correlation in multiplicities for the above mentioned particles or fragments. The further experimental studies showed that with the increase of target fragment multiplicity, a saturation phenomenon was observed in shower particle multiplicity.
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