Abstract
Fragment production has been studied as a function of the source mass and excitation energy in peripheral collisions of 35Cl+197Au at 43 MeV/nucleon and 70Ge+natTi at 35 MeV/nucleon. The results are compared to the Au+Au data at 600 MeV/nucleon obtained by the ALADIN Collaboration. A mass scaling, by 4source∼ 35 to 190, strongly correlated to excitation energy per nucleon, is presented, suggesting a thermal fragment production mechanism. Comparisons to a standard sequential decay model and the lattice-gas model are made. Fragment emission from a hot, rotating source is unable to reproduce the experimental source size scaling.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | R973-R976 |
| Journal | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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