Characteristics of disintegration of different emulsion nuclei by relativistic Si nuclei at 3.7 A GeV.

An analysis of the data based on 924 inelastic interaction events induced by Si nuclei in a nuclear emulsion is presented. The nuclear fragmentation process is studied by analysing the total charge ( Q) distribution of the projectile spectators for different emulsion target groups along with the comparison of Monte Carlo Glauber model results. Probability distributions for total disintegrated events as a function of different projectile masses are shown and compared with cascade evaporation model results at same energy per nucleon. Further, mean multiplicities of different charged secondaries for different classes of events are presented and for each event, variation of mean multiplicities as a function of total charge ( Q) is also presented. The pseudorapidity distributions and normalized pseudorapidity distributions of the produced charged particles in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 3.7 A GeV are analysed for total disintegration (TD) as well as minimum-bias events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]