Proton and α sequential emission in the 16O + 58Ni deep inelastic reaction. A semi-classical approach

The 132 MeV 16O + 58Ni reaction has been experimentally investigated by using coincident charged particle techniques. A closed-form theoretical approach, describing in a simple picture the non-equilibrium component and the evaporative one of the angular correlation between light particles and reaction residues emitted in a peripheral heavy-ion collision, is applied - in the hypothesis of a sequential process - to the (C,N,O)-α and (C,N,O)-p differential multiplicities for the 16O + 58Ni at 8.25 MeV/A deep inelastic collision. From this analysis some reaction mechanism information is deduced. (author)