Microscopic investigations of mass and charge changing cross sections

The mass and the charge changing cross sections recently measured in inverse kinematics are investigated microscopically in the framework of Glauber model using the ground state point proton/neutron densities obtained in the relativistic mean field/relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov approach. As illustrative examples, explicit results for the nuclei spanning different regions of the periodic table, incident on ¹²C, hydrogen, and -CH₂ targets are presented. The present study gives an excellent account of the experiment.