Abstract
The negative-pion multiplicity is measured for central collisions of with KCl at eight energies from 0.36 to 1.8 GeV/nucleon and for on KCl and on Ba at 977 and 772 MeV/nucleon, respectively. A systematic discrepancy with a cascade-model calculation which fits proton- and pion-nucleus cross sections but omits potential-energy effects is used to derive the energy going into bulk compression of the system. A value of the incompressibility constant of MeV is extracted in a parabolic form of the nuclear-matter equation of state.
- Received 2 July 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1236
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