Collisions of a very heavy nonfusing nuclear system 197Au + 197Au were studied at an energy of 15MeV/ nucleon. An interesting process of violent reseparation of this heavy system into three or four fragments of comparable size was observed. In the case of ternary partitioning, either the projectile-like fragment (PLF) or target-like fragment (TLF) breaks up almost collinearly with the PLF-TLF separation axis. In the case of quaternary reactions, both PLF and TLF were observed breaking up along this direction. By comparison with a dynamical model of deep inelastic collisions it was concluded that the ternary and quaternary reactions occur in semiperipheral collisions, in a range of angular momenta corresponding to about 0.5–0.7 of the maximum L value for grazing collisions. The time elapsing from the scission of the binary PLF + TLF system to the secondary scission of PLF or TLF was estimated to be of about 70–80 fm/c for the ternary reactions and 80–100 fm/c for the quaternary reactions.
Titolo: | Observation of fast collinear partitioning of the 197Au + 197Au system into three and four fragments of comparable size |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2010 |
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Abstract: | Collisions of a very heavy nonfusing nuclear system 197Au + 197Au were studied at an energy of 15MeV/ nucleon. An interesting process of violent reseparation of this heavy system into three or four fragments of comparable size was observed. In the case of ternary partitioning, either the projectile-like fragment (PLF) or target-like fragment (TLF) breaks up almost collinearly with the PLF-TLF separation axis. In the case of quaternary reactions, both PLF and TLF were observed breaking up along this direction. By comparison with a dynamical model of deep inelastic collisions it was concluded that the ternary and quaternary reactions occur in semiperipheral collisions, in a range of angular momenta corresponding to about 0.5–0.7 of the maximum L value for grazing collisions. The time elapsing from the scission of the binary PLF + TLF system to the secondary scission of PLF or TLF was estimated to be of about 70–80 fm/c for the ternary reactions and 80–100 fm/c for the quaternary reactions. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11570/1902868 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 14.a.1 Articolo su rivista |