CXXV. Nuclear transmutations produced by cosmic ray particles of great energy.—Part VII. Interpretation of the experimental results

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The observations presented in the preceding paper are analysed and compared with the current theories of meson production. In making the analyses, account is taken of the interaction with the parent nucleus both of the recoil nucleons and the created mesons. It is found that the observations do not provide decisive evidence in favour of either plural or multiple meson production. The experimental results can be explained in terms of either the multiple theory with secondary generation of mesons, or the plural theory assuming many-body collisions. Some other conclusions arising from the work are given at the end of this paper.

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