Charge Correlations and Dynamical Instabilities in the Multifragment Emission Process

Journal Article · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2634· OSTI ID:385735

Moretto, L G; Rubehn, T; Phair, L; Colonna, N; Wozniak, G J ^[1]; Bowman, D R; Peaslee, G F; Carlin, N; de Souza, R T; Gelbke, C K; Gong, W G; Kim, Y D; Lisa, M A; Lynch, W; Williams, C ^[2]

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1. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
2. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (United States)

A new, sensitive method allows one to search for the enhancement of events with nearly equal-sized fragments as predicted by theoretical calculations based on volume or surface instabilities. Simulations have been performed to investigate the sensitivity of the procedure. Experimentally, charge correlations of intermediate mass fragments emitted from heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies have been studied. No evidence for a preferred breakup into equal-sized fragments has been found. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 385735
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 77, Issue 13; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS
EMISSION
CHARGES
CORRELATIONS
COPPER
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
XENON
INSTABILITY
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