Download or read book Cross-Section Parameterizations for Pion and Nucleon Production from Negative Pion-Proton Collisions written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranft has provided parameterizations of Lorentz invariant differential cross sections for pion and nucleon production in pion-proton collisions that are compared to some recent data. The Ranft parameterizations are then numerically integrated to form spectral and total cross sections. These numerical integrations are further parameterized to provide formula for spectral and total cross sections suitable for use in radiation transport codes. The reactions analyzed are for charged pions in the initial state and both charged and neutral pions in the final state.Norbury, John W. and Blattnig, Steve R. and Norman, Ryan and Tripathi, R. K.Langley Research CenterNUCLEONS; PARAMETERIZATION; PIONS; PAIR PRODUCTION; IONIC COLLISIONS; SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES; CHARGED PARTICLES