Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics - EDWARDS 1958
Chronology of Milestone Events in Particle Physics

EDWARDS 1958

Edwards, B.; Losty, J.; Perkins, D.H.; Pinkau, K.; Reynolds, J.;
Analysis of Nuclear Interactions of Energies between 1000 and 100000 BeV
Phil. Mag. (7)3 (1958) 237;

Abstracts
Twenty nuclear interactions produced by protons and ten produced by -particles of energy above 1000 BeV have been analysed.
The proportion of pions among the secondaries is found to be 80% for the core and less than 70% for the wide angle tracks. The average transverse momentum resulting from our measurements is PT = 0.5 BeV/c for pions and PT = 1-2 BeV/c for heavy particles. It appears to be independent of angle of emission and primary energy. The multiplicity of the interaction, ns shows no variation with primary energy: it varies, however, with the anisotropy of the angular distribution, and shows wide fluctuations at a fixed primary energy. The inelasticity, K, of the collisions is close to unity for secondary interactions of mean energy ~ 100 BeV and about 0.2 for jets produced by protons of energy ~ 100000 BeV. At a fixed energy, K does not appear to be strongly dependent on nS. None of the current theories appears capable of giving a satisfactory explanation of the experimental results, and an alternative model is proposed.

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