Abstract
We suggest that in high energy hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus reactions a partially coherent intense mesonic field is created. Two non-linear models for the propagation of this mesonic field in nuclear matter are considered which both admit solutions. The effect of this could be a selfinduced transparency of nuclear matter. This might explain various experimental observations in hadron-nucleus reactions and leads possibly also to the existence of new metastable states. Experimental consequences of this are discussed.
Work supported in part by NATO, BMFT and GSI Darmstadt.
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Fowler, G.N., Weiner, R.M. (1980). Nonlinear Effects in Nuclear Matter and Self-Induced Transparency. In: Perlmutter, A., Scott, L.F. (eds) Recent Developments in High-Energy Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3165-0_19
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