Interactions of high energy particles with nuclei

Abstract

Elastic scattering and diffractive production processes induced in nuclear targets by high energyprojectiles are discussed in this article. Special attention is paid to the interaction of high energi.-hadrons and photons. Interactions of high energy electrons and neutrinos are briefly mentioned. The common features of all these processes are emphasized throughout the article: The multiple scattering and shadowing processes inside of the target nuclei. An effort is made to develop a unified way of treating nuclear interactions of particles which are either hadrons or exhibit some hadronic components in such interactions. This article is divided into seven sections: (1) Introduction, (2) Description of multiple scattering, (3) Elastic scattering of hadrons from nuclei, (4) Diffractive dissociation and diffractive excitation, (5) Diffractive production of hadrons in hadron-nucleon collisions, (6) Shadowing effects in inelastic electron-nucleus scattering, (7) Shadowing effects in neutrino reactions on nuclei.