On the use of SSNTD in relativistic heavy ion physics and the study of open questions

Interactions of relativistic heavy ions in thick heavy element targets and some unresolved problems

“…It has been shown that alphas or larger particles can be excluded from inducing the observed effect [5,21,32]. This phenomenon of excessive production of products with large ΔA constitutes another and rather severe aspects of unresolved problem as this effect is most likely due to elementary particles like protons, neutrons, or even pions.…”

Variation of the track length along the particle trajectory through CR-39 stack sheets

“…In the experiment of Arbuzov [8], particles are emitted from a copper disc target onto a stack of 135 Intercast sheets making with its axis an angle of 25 • to the 65 GeV 19 F-beam. The aim of the Arbuzov experiment is mainly to investigate with SSNTD the relativistic heavy fragments emitted at wide angles in relativistic nuclear reactions.…”

“…This stack registers the reaction products, within its sensitivity, going out at the angle 25 • when bombarding the copper disk with the 19 F-ion beam. The copper disk in the Arbuzov set-up was bombarded with ∼9.73 × 10 8 19 F-ions of 3.4 GeV per nucleon specific energy at normal incidence at the Dubna Synchrophasotron [8].…”