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Science 17 September 1982:
Vol. 217. no. 4565, pp. 1139 - 1140
DOI: 10.1126/science.217.4565.1139
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Studies of Relativistic Uranium Nuclei with Dielectric Track Detectors

S. P. AHLEN 1, G. TARLÉ 1, and P. B. PRICE 1

1 Department of Physics and Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 94720

The cross section for the breakup of relativistic uranium projectiles (energy sim 35 billion electron volts) into two large fragments in the track detector CR-39 was measured and found to be about half of the geometric cross section. The range of the uranium projectiles was also measured and found to agree with that predicted by the Bethe theory when modified to account for the capture of orbital electrons by the projectiles.

Submitted on August 2, 1982


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Science 217, 1135-1137
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