Diffraction Dissociation of Beam Particles

A phenomenon is predicted in which a high-energy particle beam undergoing diffraction scattering from a nucleus will acquire components corresponding to various products of the virtual dissociations of the incident particle, as p+K^+ or ^-+n. These diffraction-produced systems would have a characteristic extremely narrow distribution in transverse momentum, and would have all the same quantum numbers as the initial particle; i. e. , the same spin, isotopic spin, and parity. The process is related to that discussed in the preceding paper, and has the same effective energy threshold.