Behavior of secondary $α$ particles produced from relativistic heavy-ion collisions

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1 June 1982

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C

Vol. 25 (6) , 3216-3217
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.25.3216

Abstract

The interaction mean free paths of

α

particles in fragments emitted from two heavy-ion beams of

{}^{40}{Ar}

and

{}^{56}{Fe}

, at an energy of

\sim 2 A

GeV have been measured and were found to be the same, within statistical errors, at all distances from their production points.

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