Dissociation and Stripping of High-Energy Deuterons

The dissociation and stripping of high-energy deuterons are studied in a Glauber-model approach. In particular, our treatment of the dissociation problem includes both nuclear and Coulomb forecs. For heavy nuclei, the Coulomb dissociation cross section turns out to be much more important than the nuclear dissociation cross section and comparable in magnitude to the nuclear-stripping cross section. Comparison with experimental cross sections for $3.54-\frac{\mathrm{GeV}}{c}$ deuterons shows satisfactory agreement.