Aspects of data on the breakup of highly excited nuclei

Conference · Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:5981761

Warwick, A I; Wieman, H H; Gutbrod, H H; Ritter, H G; Stelzer, H; Weik, F; Kaufman, S B; Steinberg, E P; Wilkins, B D

There is an awakening of theoretical interest in the mechanisms by which nuclear fragments (4 less than or equal to A less than or equal to 150) are produced in violent collisions of heavy ions. With this in mind we review some aspects of the available experimental data and point out some challenging features against which to test the models. The concept of evaporation is tremendously powerful when applied to pieces of nuclei of low excitation (1 or 2 MeV/u). Current interest focuses on higher excitations, at the point where the binding energy of the system vanishes. This is the transition from liquid nuclei to a gas of nucleons, and it may be that the critical phenomena that certainly exist in infinite nuclear matter will be manifest in finite nuclei under these conditions.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5981761
• Report Number(s): LBL-16135; CONF-830674-1; CONF-830675-1; ON: DE83014902
• Resource Relation: Conference: 6. international Balaton topical conference on high energy nuclear physics, Balatonfured, Hungary, 6 Jun 1983; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
BREAKUP REACTIONS
FIREBALL MODEL
FISSION FRAGMENTS
GEV RANGE
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MULTIPLICITY
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
ENERGY RANGE
NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
645201* - High Energy Physics- Particle Interactions & Properties-Theoretical- General & Scattering Theory