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Results are presented from an investigation of the mean free path in nuclear emulsion of multiply charged fragments, produced by 1.8^-GeV argon nuclei. Charge identification of 6965 fragments with charges Z ^ 2, producing 2192 secondary interactions, has been made. No dependence of the mean free path on the distance from the preceding collision is observed and thus our result is consistent with the nonexistence of anomalons.

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4~interactions are studied, to investigate the question of anomalons, in two G-5 emulsion stacks. In about 4600 primary interactions, projectile fragments of Z > 2 for all generations have been followed until they interact or leave the stack. After careful estimation of charges of these fragments, variation of their mean free paths is studied as a function of distance from the preceding interaction. Generation effect, Nh dependence and production angle effect are investigated. In addition multi-chain events are analysed separately. Our results do not show anomalons at the 6% level and are consistent with non-occurrence of anomalons. However, this experiment is not sensitive enough to rule out anomalons (with a mfp of the order of 2 to 3 cm) produced at about 1% (or less) level.