ROLE OF QUASIPROJECTILE ISOSPIN ASYMMETRY IN NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Fragment yield data, selected with different values of the isospin asymmetry of the quasiprojectile from 78, 86 Kr +58, 64 Ni reactions at E lab = 35 MeV/nucleon, have been analyzed within the framework of Landau free energy approach. Fits to the free energy data indicated the system to be in the regime of a first-order phase transition. The plot of free energy versus isospin asymmetry of the fragments showed a systematic change with increasing isospin asymmetry of the fragmenting source. This observation demonstrated the role of quasiprojectile isospin asymmetry as an external field which governed the minima positions in the free energy plot. The position of the central minimum was found to be in close agreement with the average isospin asymmetry of the fragments calculated excluding neutrons and protons. Significant deviations from the free energy plot were observed for N = Z fragments, particularly for the lighter ones, which could be corrected after inclusion of oddeven effects in the analysis. Analysis of yield data of N = Z nuclei gave a reasonable estimate of temperature. Analysis of free energy data gated with excitation energy of the fragmenting source showed a dependence of fit parameters of Landau free energy equation on the excitation energy as well as isospin asymmetry of the source.

published proceedings

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS E

author list (cited authors)

  • Tripathi, R., Bonasera, A., Wuenschel, S., May, L. W., Kohley, Z., Marini, P., ... Yennello, S. J.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • Tripathi, R||Bonasera, A||Wuenschel, S||May, LW||Kohley, Z||Marini, P||Mcintosh, A||Souliotis, GA||Galanopoulos, S||Hagel, K||Shetty, DV||Huseman, K||Soisson, SN||Stein, BC||Yennello, SJ

publication date

  • March 2012