COULOMB DISSOCIATION OF INCIDENT O-16 AT 4.5 GEV C/

Projectile multifragment breakup of O-16, C-2 and Li-7 at energies 3.0 -4.5 A-GeV is studied by means of the Weizsacker-Williams method. The fragmentation channels of the O-16 projectile at 4.5 A-GeV are investi gated and compared with that of O-16 at 200 A-GeV. The events characte rized by N-h=0 and the events due to both Coulomb and diffraction diss ociation have been selected and analyzed as a function of impact param eter. Also, the dependence of the electromagnetic dissociation cross-s ection on incident energy and the charge of projectile and target is f ound. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.