Measurement of the stopping power of nuclei for 100 GeV/c protons and antiprotons

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)90387-X

Physics Letters B

Volume 197, Issues 1–2, 22 October 1987, Pages 295-301

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Abstract

We have studied the reactions p+A→ (p, n)+X and $p ̄ +A→ p ̄ +X$ at beam momenta of 100 GeV/c for Mg, Ag and Au targets. The rapidity loss of the leading final state protons, antiprotons, and neutrons has been obtained as a measurement of the nuclear stopping power and correlated with the number of slow protons and the multiplicity and momentum of the associated charged particles.

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^☆: This work was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation (Notre Dame, Kansas, Pennysylvania State), US Department of Energy (Duke, Fermilab), and the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (Cambridge).

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Measurement of the stopping power of nuclei for 100 GeV/c protons and antiprotons☆

Abstract

Nucl. Instrum. Methods A

Phys. Lett. B

Phys. Rev. Lett

Z. Phys. C

Phys. Rev. D

Stopping power and energy deposition in p+A collisions

Phys. Lett. B