Intermediate mass fragment production in central collisions of intermediate energy heavy ions. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present Z distributions for fragments with 1Z12 from central collisions of 40 Ar+45Sc at incident energies ranging from 35 to 115 MeV/nucleon. We find that the Z distributions can be described by a power law or an exponential and steepen with increasing incident energy. Over the range of incident energies studied, the average number of intermediate mass fragments decreases while the average number of particles increases. When combined with previous results for the charge distributions, a minimum is observed in the extracted power-law parameter. 1993 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Li, T., Bauer, W., Craig, D., Cronqvist, M., Gualtieri, E., Hannuschke, S., ... Norbeck, E.

citation count

  • 74

complete list of authors

  • Li, T||Bauer, W||Craig, D||Cronqvist, M||Gualtieri, E||Hannuschke, S||Lacey, R||Llope, WJ||Reposeur, T||Westfall, GD||Wilson, WK||Winfield, JS||Yee, J||Yennello, SJ||Nadasen, A||Tickle, RS||Norbeck, E

publication date

  • March 1993