ABSTRACT

This chapter considers the possibility of describing certain important characteristics of inelastic interaction of nucleons, having various energies, and lightest nuclei with nuclei on the basis of the INC-model. Taking account of quantum-mechanical effects in the calculation of a quasifree component of the cross-section allows one to significantly improve the description of double differential cross-sections for production of secondary protons in the interaction of intermediate-energy protons with nuclei on the basis of the INC-model. The chapter analyses the experimental data on inclusive cross-sections for production of pions by protons on nuclei within the framework of the INC-model. The chapter describes the domain of initial energies in the vicinity the threshold for pion production in NN-collisions. The use of a phenomenological dependence of the cross-sections on A leads to similar formulas for heavy nuclei which describe satisfactorily experimental data over a wide range of the energy of primary protons.