Parameterized total cross sections for pion production in nuclear collisions

✍ Scribed by John W. Norbury; Lawrence W. Townsend

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 483 KB
• Volume: 254
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-583X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2006.11.054

✦ Synopsis

Total inclusive cross sections for neutral and charged pion production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus reactions have been calculated and compared to experiment. Nucleon-nucleon theoretical cross sections have been scaled up to nuclear collisions using a scaling factor similar to (A P A T ) 2/3 , where A P and A T are the nucleon numbers of the projectile and target nuclei. Variations in the power of this scaling factor have been studied and a good fit to experiment is obtained with a small modification of the power. Theoretical cross sections are written in a form that is very suitable for immediate input into transport codes.