Abstract
The fission of lead projectiles has been investigated at the CERN SPS by the NA50 experiment. For this study, a Cherenkov quartz detector was added to the standard NA50 setup to measure the charge of projectilelike fragments. The data collected on different targets at 40 and 158 GeV/c per nucleon are presented here. The contributions arising from the nuclear and the electromagnetic fission mechanism are extracted from the measured fission cross sections; the electromagnetic contribution is then compared to the Weizsäcker-Williams predictions.
| Lingua originale | Inglese |
|---|---|
| Numero di articolo | 034904 |
| pagine (da-a) | 034904-1-034904-9 |
| Rivista | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 69 |
| Numero di pubblicazione | 3 |
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| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - mar 2004 |