Production of highly excited nuclei in reactions induced by intermediate-energy particles

Predictions of the intranuclear-cascade model taking into account the trawling of a target nucleus by cascade particles have been compared with the results of the latest experiments that recorded all decay products (nucleons, extremely light nuclei, and medium-mass fragments) in coincidence, along with the excitation energy E* of residual nuclei formed in the interactions of intermediate-energy particles with protons, antiprotons, and 3He nuclei. Good agreement between the theoretical and experimental results has been obtained for multiplicity distributions of decay products and for excitation-energy distributions of residual nuclei. It has been shown that hot nuclei with excitation energies in the range 0.53 GeV. The shape of residual nuclei have been calculated. For nuclei produced in nearly central collisions, it proved to be markedly different from the spherical one