Total Cross-Section Measurements

1. Introduction


2. Experimental Methods


2.1. The Transmission Method for Charged Particles


2.1.1. Principle of a Transmission Measurement


2.1.2. The Beam


2.1.3. The Counters


2.1.4. The Electronics


2.1.5. The Targets


2.1.6. Experimental Procedure


2.1.7. Corrections


2.2. Bubble Chamber Measurements for Charged Particles


2.3. Measurements of Total Cross-Sections of Neutral Particles


2.3.1. Neutrons


2.3.2. Absorption Coefficients for Photons


2.4. Other Methods


3. The Computation of the Pure Isospin Cross-Sections. The Deuteron Problem


3.1. The Pure Isospin Cross-Sections


3.2. The Shadow Effect


3.3. The Fermi Motion


4. Analysis of the Experimental Errors


5. Analysis of the Total Cross-Section Data


5.1. The Pion-Nucleon System


5.2. The K--Nucleon System


5.3. The K+-Nucleon System


5.4. The Nucleon-Nucleon System


5.5. The ΛN and ΣN Systems


5.6. The Antinucleon-Nucleon System


5.7. Comparison of the High-Energy Behaviors


5.8. Dispersion Relations


5.9. Absorption Cross-Sections off Nuclei


6. Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgments

References

Appendix A: Interpolated Values of Total Cross-Sections

Appendix B: A Listing of All Measured Total Cross-Sections