Interactions of 60 and 200 A GeV 16 O Ions in Nuclear Emulsion

Abstract
A survey of the interactions of 16O nuclei of energies 60 and 200 A GeV in nuclear emulsions is presented. Correlations between projectile fragments and target evaporation are studied. The electromagnetic dissociation of 16O, mainly ascribed to absorption in the giant-resonance region, is found to contribute to a sizeable fraction of the cross-section, and increases with increasing energy.