Study of Multiplicity and Angular Distribution of Projectile Fragments in 24Mg – Em Interactions at 4.5 AGeV

Abstract

In the study of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, observations on projectile fragments (PFs) have considerable advantages in comparison to target fragments (TF) as PFs can be more reliably identified and easily distinguished by the detectors. In this work, the experimental results of multiplicity and angular distribution of projectile fragments emitted from the collision of 24Mg beam with emulsion targets at 4.5 A GeV are reported . It is observed that the fragmentation mechanism differs considerably in smaller and larger mass systems