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Multinucleon phenomena and proton spectra characterizing antiproton annihilation at rest in nuclei

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Spectra of protons with momenta greater than 500 MeV/c following antiproton annihilation at rest in carbon and uranium nuclei have been measured. They are compared to recent results from other experiments and to predictions of an intranuclear cascade model. Evidence is presented for a substantialB>0 component in the annihilation process, and an estimate of the magnitude of that component is made.

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    E. D. Minor, T. A. Armstrong, B. Chen, R. A. Lewis & G. A. Smith

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Work supported in part by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grants 87-0246 and 91-0302 and the U.S. National Science Foundation

We thank the staff of the CERN PS Division for their dedicated and skillful operation of LEAR during the course of this experiment. In addition, we would like to express our appreciation to Los Alamos National Laboratory, Radiation Transport Group, for generously providing us with the LAHET intranuclear cascade code and, in particular, to Dr. Richard E. Prael for informative and enlightening discussions regarding the operation of the code and the principles underlying its construction.

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Minor, E.D., Armstrong, T.A., Chen, B. et al. Multinucleon phenomena and proton spectra characterizing antiproton annihilation at rest in nuclei. Z. Physik A - Hadrons and Nuclei 342, 447–454 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01294955

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