A CLOUD CHAMBER STUDY OF HIGH ENERGY NUCLEAR INTERACTIONS t>y

CHAPTER I, Introduction 1 CHAPTER II, Apparatus and Procedure . . . 7 Cloud Chamber 7 Auxiliary Apparatus. 10 CHAPTER III, Analysis of Data 29 Event Coordinates 29 Air Cerenkov Counter Pulse Analysis 32 Shower Production Mean Free Paths 37 Secondary Neutrons 37 Analysis of Neutral Pion Secondaries 38 Event Classification and Transverse Momenta. . . 42 Target Scintillator. Pulse Information 47 Forward Momentum Analysis 50 Analysis of the Elastic Event Number 3179 of Sample A 52 Neutral Strar\ge Particle Decay 53 CHAPTER IV, Results 71 CHAPTER V, Discussion and Comparison 114 Some General Features of the Survey Data .... 114