Some Properties of the Central pi--Meson Carbon Interactions at 40 Gev/C

TL;DR

This paper analyzes properties of pi-meson carbon interactions at 40 GeV/c, focusing on event characteristics, angular distribution anomalies, and charge asymmetry, aiming to interpret historical results to inform modern high-energy collision studies.

Contribution

It offers a reinterpretation of old experimental data on pi-meson carbon reactions, highlighting phenomena like regime changes, angular anomalies, and charge asymmetries.

Findings

Identified regime change in event characteristics with centrality

Observed anomaly peaks in slow proton angular distributions

Detected charge asymmetry in pi-meson production

Abstract

We discuss some properties of the central pi--meson carbon reactions at 40 GeV/c. While these results were obtained many years ago they have not been explained completely. We attempt to interpret following: results regime change on the behavior of some characteristics of the events as a function of the centrality; anomaly peak on the angular distributions of the slow protons emitted in these reactions; charge asymmetry on the pi--mesons production in the back hemisphere in lcs. Understanding of the results could help to explain the new ones coming from the modern central experiments at high and ultrarelativistic energies.