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Fragment Kinetic Energies and Modes of Fragment Formation

Odeh, T; collaboration, ALADIN; (2000) Fragment Kinetic Energies and Modes of Fragment Formation. Physical Review Letters , 84 (20) 4557 -4560. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4557. Green open access

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Abstract

Kinetic energies of light fragments A <= 10 from the decay of target spectators in 197Au 197Au collisions at 1000 MeV per nucleon have been measured with high-resolution telescopes at backward angles. Except for protons and apart from the observed evaporation components, the kinetic-energy spectra exhibit slope temperatures of about 17 MeV, independent of the particle species, but not corresponding to the thermal or chemical degrees of freedom at breakup. It is suggested that these slope temperatures may reflect the intrinsic Fermi motion and thus the bulk density of the spectator system at the instant of becoming unstable. PACS numbers: 25.70.Pq, 21.65.+f, 25.70.Mn

Type: Article
Title: Fragment Kinetic Energies and Modes of Fragment Formation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4557
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4557
Language: English
Additional information: © 2000 The American Physical Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1374663
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