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Mach shock waves and head shock waves occur during the interpenetration of a light high energetic nucleus with a heavy one. Collisions of16O,12C and4He ions at energies between 0.25 and 2.1 GeV/N with Ag and Cl nuclei have been investigated. The theoretical concepts and the experiment are presented and interpreted. From that a velocity of first sound in nuclear matterc s ≈0.19c, a Mach shock velocityv s ≈0.58c and a nuclear compression constantK=300 MeV are deduced.
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This work was supported by the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (BMFT) and by the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI). — Orally presented at the Bormio Winter Meeting (January 22, 1975), at the GSI-Seminar (February 4, 1975), and at the Users Meeting at the LBL, Berkeley (March 15, 1975).
On leave of absence from Kyoto-Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan.
The friendly interest of Prof. Ch. Schmelzer in this work is greatly appreciated.
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Baumgardt, H.G., Schott, J.U., Sakamoto, Y. et al. Shock waves and mach cones in fast nucleus-nucleus collisions. Z Physik A 273, 359–371 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01435578
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