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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 382, Issue 3, 12 July 1982, Pages 542-550
Nuclear Physics A

Momentum distributions in nuclei measured with relativistic heavy ions

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Abstract

In a peripheral reaction between relativistic heavy ions, where one nucleon is knocked out of the projectile, the momentum distribution of the remaining fragment reflects the momentum distribution of the knocked out nucleon. This has been proven in a previous paper. Here we study how the final-state interaction between the knocked out nucleon and the observed fragment influences the result: The real part of the optical potential which describes the final-state interaction shifts the experimental momentum distribution by a value 〈k〉 of a few tens of MeV/c and the imaginary part reduces the cross sections by a factor 2 roughly. We also derive the cross section for a proton as target.

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Supported in part by the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT).

Present address: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

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