In the present paper, experimental observations of the multifragmentation processes of light relativistic nuclei carried out by means of emulsions are reviewed. Events of the type of "white" stars in which the dissociation of relativistic nuclei is not accompanied by the production of mesons and the target-nucleus fragments are considered.A distinctive feature of the charge topology in the dissociation of the Ne, Mg, Si, and S nuclei is an almost total suppression of the binary splitting of nuclei to fragments with charges higher than 2. The growth of the nuclear fragmentation degree is revealed in an increase in the multiplicity of singly and doubly charged fragments with decreasing charge of the non-excited part of the fragmenting nucleus.The processes of dissociation of stable Li, Be, B, C, N, and O isotopes to charged fragments were used to study special features of the formation of systems consisting of the lightest α, d, and t nuclei. Clustering in form of the 3 He nucleus can be detected in "white" stars via the dissociation of neutron-deficient Be, B, C, and N isotopes.

Abstract. The relativistic invariant approach is applied to analyzing the 3.3 A GeV 22 Ne fragmentation in a nuclear track emulsion. New results on few-body dissociations have been obtained from the emulsion exposures to 2.1 A GeV 14 N and 1.2 A GeV 9 Be nuclei. It can be asserted that the use of the invariant approach is an effective means of obtaining conclusions about the behavior of systems involving a few He nuclei at a relative energy close to 1 MeV per nucleon. The first observations of fragmentation of 1.2 A GeV 8 B and 9 C nuclei in emulsion are described. The presented results allow one to justify the development of few-body aspects of nuclear astrophysics.PACS. 21.45.+v Few-body systems -23.60.+e α decay -25.10.+s Nuclear reactions involving few-nucleon systems

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