Properties of the initial participant matter interaction zone in near-Fermi-energy heavy-ion collisions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The sizes, temperatures, and free neutron-to-proton ratios of the initial interaction zones produced in the collisions of 40 MeV/nucleon Ar40+Sn112 and 55 MeV/nucleon Al27+Sn124 are derived using total detected neutron plus charged particle multiplicity as a measure of the impact parameter range and number of participant nucleons. The size of the initial interaction zone, determined from a coalescence model analysis, increases significantly with decreasing impact parameter. The temperatures and free neutron-to-proton ratios in the interaction zones are relatively similar for different impact parameter ranges and evolve in a similar fashion. 2007 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW C

author list (cited authors)

  • Wang, J., Keutgen, T., Wada, R., Hagel, K., Kowalski, S., Materna, T., ... Ono, A.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Wang, J||Keutgen, T||Wada, R||Hagel, K||Kowalski, S||Materna, T||Qin, L||Chen, Z||Natowitz, JB||Ma, YG||Murray, M||Keksis, A||Martin, E||Ruangma, A||Shetty, DV||Souliotis, G||Veselsky, M||Winchester, EM||Yennello, SJ||Fabris, D||Lunardon, M||Moretto, S||Nebbia, G||Pesente, S||Rizzi, V||Viesti, G||Cinausero, M||Prete, G||Cibor, J||Majka, Z||Staszel, P||Zipper, W||El Masri, Y||Alfaro, R||Martinez-Davalos, A||Menchaca-Rocha, A||Ono, A

publication date

  • January 2007