Target-associated particles production in the interactions of 3.7 and 200A GeV sulphur projectiles with nuclear emulsion

The characteristics of the associated particles produced in 3.7 and 200A GeV S-32-emulsion inelastic interactions are reported. The experimental data at 3.7 A GeV are compared with the predictions of the standard cascading evaporation model. For explaining the results at higher energy (200A GeV), a simple model which includes the nucleon sub-structure (Reggeon model) is introduced. This model is found to be capable of producing the mean features of the data obtained for the two used exposures.