Search for energy and target effects in anomalous projectile fragment production

Abstract
The anomalous mean free path for 1500 secondary interactions of projectile fragments produced by 5000 primary collisions of Kr84 beam tracks at 1.52A GeV has been observed at a length of L<1.5 cm from their production point in nuclear emulsion. At energy E>1.1A GeV, the anomalous mean free path is independent of the target size, i.e., light (CNO) or heavy (AgBr), but at low energy 0.5<E<~1.1A GeV, the anomalous mean free path seems to appear with heavy targets.