Parameterized total cross sections for pion production in nuclear collisions
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
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 , where and 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0612081,
title = {Parameterized total cross sections for pion production in nuclear collisions},
author = {John W. Norbury and Lawrence W. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0612081},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
14 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B