Recoil studies in the reaction of 12C ions with the enriched isotope 118Sn

The recoil properties of the product nuclei from the interaction of 2.2 GeV/nucleon 12C ions from Nuclotron of the Laboratory of High Energies, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna with a 118Sn target have been studied via catcher foils method. The experimental data were analyzed using the mathematical formalism of the standard two-step vector model. The results for 12C ions are compared with those for deuterons and protons. Three different Los Alamos versions of the Quark-Gluon String Model were used for comparison with our experimental data.