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Title: Disassembly of hot nuclear matter formed in Au-induced reactions near the Fermi energy

Abstract

Complex fragment emission has been studied in the 60 MeV/A 197Au + 12C, 27Al, 51V, natCu, and 197Au reactions. Velocity spectra, angular distributions and cross sections have been constructed for each target from the inclusive data. Coincidence data including 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-fold events have also been examined. Furthermore neutron multiplicity distributions have been obtained for the above reactions by utilizing a novel neutron calorimetric approach.

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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
10104778
Report Number(s):
LBL-34712
ON: DE94003260; TRN: 94:000223
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Thesis/Dissertation
Resource Relation:
Other Information: TH: Thesis (Ph.D.); PBD: Sep 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; CARBON 12 TARGET; GOLD 197 REACTIONS; COPPER; VANADIUM 51 TARGET; GOLD 197 TARGET; ALUMINIUM 27 TARGET; NUCLEAR MATTER; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; CALIBRATION; CROSS SECTIONS; 663450; 663520; 663530; 663540; 663550; 663580; HEAVY-ION-INDUCED REACTIONS AND SCATTERING; A = 6-19; A = 20-38; A = 39-58; A = 59-89; A = 190-219

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Delis, Dimitrios Nicholas. Disassembly of hot nuclear matter formed in Au-induced reactions near the Fermi energy. United States: N. p., 1993. Web. doi:10.2172/10104778.
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@article{osti_10104778,
title = {Disassembly of hot nuclear matter formed in Au-induced reactions near the Fermi energy},
author = {Delis, Dimitrios Nicholas},
abstractNote = {Complex fragment emission has been studied in the 60 MeV/A 197Au + 12C, 27Al, 51V, natCu, and 197Au reactions. Velocity spectra, angular distributions and cross sections have been constructed for each target from the inclusive data. Coincidence data including 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-fold events have also been examined. Furthermore neutron multiplicity distributions have been obtained for the above reactions by utilizing a novel neutron calorimetric approach.},
doi = {10.2172/10104778},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993},
month = {Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993}
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