Multifragmentation near the threshold

Autor: Horst Stöcker, J. Pochodzalla, A. Bohnet, G. Peilert, J. Aichelin, Walter Greiner, W. Trautmann
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: Physical Review C. 44:2111-2129
ISSN: 1089-490X
0556-2813
DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.44.2111
Popis: We investigate the onset of multifragmentation employing an improved version of the {ital N}-body quantum'' molecular-dynamics approach. We study in detail the reaction {sup 18}O+{sup 197}Au at 84 MeV/nucleon and find good agreement between the calculated results and the data for the double-differential proton cross section, the mass yield, the multiplicity, the kinetic energy of the fragments, and even for the kinematic correlations between intermediate mass fragments (IMF's), which have been measured in this experiment for the first time. We observe a strong correlation between the impact parameter and both the size of the target remnant as well as the average proton multiplicity. Hence both observables can be used to determine the impact parameter experimentally. The IMF's come from the most central collisions. The calculations confirm the experimental result that they are not emitted from an equilibrated system. Although the inclusive energy spectra look thermal, we cannot identify an impact parameter-independent isotropically emitting source. Even in central collisions global equilibrium is not observed. We find that multifragment emission at this bombarding energy is caused by a process very similar to that proposed in the macroscopic cold multifragmentation model. Thus it has a different origin than at beam energies around 1more » GeV/nucleon, although the mass yield has an almost identical slope.« less
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