Published March 9, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

The rise and fall of multifragment production in 197Au+C, Al, and Cu reactions at E/A=600 MeV

  • 1. Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 2. Centre de Recherces Nucleaires, 67 - Strasbourg (France)
  • 3. Lab. National Saturne, CEN Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 4. Dipt. di Fisica, dell'Univ., Catania (Italy)
  • 5. Ist. di Scienze Fisiche, Univ. Degli Studi, Milano (Italy)
  • 6. Inst. fuer Kernphysik, Univ. Frankfurt (Germany)
  • 7. ZfK Rossendorf, Dresden (Germany)

Description

We have studied the transition from the evaporation of the vaporization regime in 197Au induced reactions on C, Al, and Cu targets at a beam energy of 600 MeV per nucleon. The experiment was performed with the ALADIN forward spectrometer at SIS. We find that with increasing violence of the collision the mean multiplicity of intermediate mass fragments first increases to an maximum ≅3.5 and then decreases again. Calculations using the BUU model suggest that the fragmentation is governed by the energy Edep deposited into the Au nucleus and that the maximum of is reached around Edep=8 MeV/nucleon. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
538
Series
Nucl. Phys., A.
Journal Page Range
473c-482c
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPAB

Conference

Title
4. international conference on nucleus-nucleus collisions (NN-4).
Dates
10-14 Jun 1991.
Place
Kanazawa (Japan).