Abstract
We compare for nucleus-nucleus systems (obtained from existing direct measurements and derived from elastic scattering data) with nucleon-nucleon and nucleon-nucleus data. The energy dependence of for nucleus-nucleus systems is found to be quite rapid; there appears to be no evidence for an energy independent, geometric . Simple parameter free microscopic calculations are able to quantitatively reproduce the data and thus, emphasize the dominance of nucleon-nucleon interactions in medium energy nucleus-nucleus collisions.
NUCLEAR REACTIONS Total reaction cross section theory, comparison to data for , , +, , , and +. Predictions for +, +, +. Energy range MeV.
- Received 13 November 1979
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.22.1055
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