Thermal bremsstrahlung probing the thermodynamical state of multifragmenting systems

D. G. D'Enterria, L. Aphecetche, A. Chbihi, H. Delagrange, J. Díaz, M. J. Van Goethem, M. Hoefman, H. Huisman, A. Kugler, H. Loehner, G. Martínez, R. Ortega, R. Ostendorf, S. Schadmand, Y. Schutz, R. Siemssen, D. Stracener, P. Tlusty, R. Turrisi, M. VolkertsV. Wagner, H. Wilschut, N. Yahlali

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    Abstract

    Inclusive and exclusive hard-photon (Eγ > 30 MeV) production in five different heavy-ion reactions (36Ar+197Au, 107Ag, 58Ni, 12C at 60A MeV and 129Xe+120Sn at 50A MeV) has been studied coupling the TAPS photon spectrometer with several charged-particle multidetectors covering more than 80% of 4π. The measured spectra, slope parameters and source velocities as well as their target-dependence, confirm the existence of thermal bremsstrahlung emission from secondary nucleon-nucleon collisions that accounts for roughly 20% of the total hard-photon yield. The thermal slopes are a direct measure of the temperature of the excited nuclear systems produced during the reaction.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)291-294
    Number of pages4
    JournalNuclear Physics A
    Volume681
    Issue number1-4
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jan 29 2001

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