Sideways-peaked angular distributions in hadron-induced-multifragmentation: Shock waves, geometry, or kinematics? Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Exclusive studies of sideways-peaked angular distributions for intermediate-mass fragments (IMFs) produced in hadron-induced reactions have been performed with the Indiana silicon sphere (ISiS) detector array. The effect becomes prominent for beam momenta above about [Formula Presented] Both the magnitude of the effect and the peak angle increase as a function of fragment multiplicity and charge. When gated on IMF kinetic energy, the angular distributions evolve from forward peaked to nearly isotropic as the fragment energy decreases. Fragment-fragment correlation studies show no evidence for a preferred angle that might signal a fast dynamic breakup mechanism. Moving-source and intranuclear cascade simulations suggest a possible kinematic origin arising from significant transverse momentum imparted to the recoil nucleus during the fast cascade. A two-step cascade and statistical multifragmentation calculation is consistent with the data. 1998 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW C

author list (cited authors)

  • Hsi, W. C., Kwiatkowski, K., Wang, G., Bracken, D. S., Cornell, E., Ginger, D. S., ... Botvina, A.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • Hsi, WC||Kwiatkowski, K||Wang, G||Bracken, DS||Cornell, E||Ginger, DS||Viola, VE||Yoder, NR||Korteling, RG||Gimeno-Nogues, F||Ramakrishnan, E||Rowland, D||Yennello, SJ||Huang, R||Lynch, WG||Tsang, MB||Xi, H||Breuer, H||Morley, KB||Gushue, S||Remsberg, LP||Friedman, WA||Botvina, A

publication date

  • July 1998