Results are presented from an investigation of the mean free path in nuclear emulsion of multiply charged fragments, produced by 1.8A-GeV argon nuclei. Charge identification of 6965 fragments with charges Z≥2, producing 2192 secondary interactions, has been made. No dependence of the mean free path on the distance from the preceding collision is observed and thus our result is consistent with the nonexistence of anomalons.

• Received 2 July 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.771