Nuclear decay following deep inelastic scattering of 470 GeV muons.

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We detected 1-10 MeV neutrons at laboratory angles from 80° to 140° in coincidence with 470 GeV muons deep inelastically scattered from H, D, C, Ca, and Pb targets. The neutron energy spectrum for Pb can be fitted with two components with temperature parameters of 0.7 and 5.0 MeV. The average neutron multiplicity for 40<ν<400 GeV is about 5 for Pb, and less than 2 for Ca and C. These data are consistent with a process in which the emitted hadrons do not interact with the rest of the nuc...

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Authors: Adams, MR; Aïd, S; Anthony, P; Averill, D; Baker, MD

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 26
• Pages: 5198-5201
• Publication date: 1995-06-01
• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.74.5198
• EISSN: 1079-7114
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• Language: English