Comment on breakup densities of hot nuclei Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In [V.E. Viola et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 132701, D.S. Bracken et al., Phys. Rev. C 69 (2004) 034612] the observed decrease in spectral peak energies of IMFs emitted from hot nuclei was interpreted in terms of a breakup density that decreased with increasing excitation energy. Subsequently, Raduta et al. [Ad. Raduta et al., Phys. Lett. B 623 (2005) 43] performed MMM simulations that showed decreasing spectral peaks could be obtained at constant density. In this Letter we point out that this apparent inconsistency is due to a selective comparison of theory and data that overlooks the evolution of the fragment multiplicities as a function of excitation energy. 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICS LETTERS B

author list (cited authors)

  • Viola, V. E., Kwiatkowski, K., Yennello, S. J., & Natowitz, J. B.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Viola, VE||Kwiatkowski, K||Yennello, SJ||Natowitz, JB

publication date

  • June 2006