Nuclear collisions of uranium nuclei up to ∼ 1 GeV/nucleon

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Abstract
We report observations of inelastic interactions of uranium nuclei with energies up to ∼ 1 GeV/nucleon in nuclear emulsions exposed on the occasion of the first successful acceleration of relativistic uranium ions. About one-half of the interactions lead to binary fission. With increasing primary energy, the relative frequency of violent nuclear interactions increases at the expense of binary fissions. Also reported is a range measurement of uranium nuclei in emulsion at 0.945 GeV/nucleon.