Emission of composite light fragments in collisions of relativistic nuclei

We discuss results of experiments on investigation of the spectra of p, d, and t from interactions of carbon nuclei with C, Cu, Sn, and Pb at 3.6 GeV per nucleon. Analysis of the data has shown the applicability of the coalescence model for description of the production of composite fragments in the near-target rapidity region in relativistic collisions. The size of the emission region is estimated.