Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Rapidity distributions of Z = 1 isotopes and the nuclear symmetry energy from Sn+Sn collisions with radioactive beams at 270 MeV/nucleon

Journal Article · · Physics Letters. B
 [1]; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; more »; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; « less
  1. FRIB, Michigan State University, Michigan
The rapidity distributions of hydrogen isotopes emitted from central collisions of neutron-rich 132Sn+124Sn and neutron-deficient 108Sn+112Sn systems at 270 MeV/nucleon were investigated at RIKEN-RIBF. The data are compared with antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) calculations and the rapidity distributions can be reproduced after adjusting the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections. The double ratios between the two reaction systems taken for the relative yields of deuteron to proton (d/p) and triton to proton (t/p) are further examined in the midrapidity domain, where the adjustments in the AMD calculations do not affect much on them. The d/p and t/p double ratios at midrapidity agree well with the ratio of the system neutron numbers and its squared value, respectively, and the rapidity dependence of these double ratios is consistent with a picture of partial mixing of colliding nuclei. By comparing with the AMD model which shows a strong symmetry energy dependence of the t/p double ratio, the experimental result in the midrapidity domain favors the calculation with a symmetry-energy slope parameter around L = 46 MeV rather than L = 108 MeV.
Research Organization:
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Contributing Organization:
SπRIT Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0014530
OSTI ID:
1957890
Journal Information:
Physics Letters. B, Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Vol. 822; ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (51)

Entropy and cluster production in nuclear collisions journal January 1986
Geometric properties of leptodermous distributions with applications to nuclei journal April 1973
Production of deuterons and pions in a transport model of energetic heavy-ion reactions journal November 1991
The STAR time projection chamber: a unique tool for studying high multiplicity events at RHIC
  • Anderson, M.; Berkovitz, J.; Betts, W.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 499, Issue 2-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01964-2
journal March 2003
High density behaviour of nuclear symmetry energy and high energy heavy-ion collisions journal October 2002
SπRIT: A time-projection chamber for symmetry-energy studies
  • Shane, R.; McIntosh, A. B.; Isobe, T.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 784 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.01.026
journal June 2015
A gating grid driver for time projection chambers
  • Tangwancharoen, S.; Lynch, W. G.; Barney, J.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 853 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.001
journal May 2017
KATANA – A charge-sensitive triggering system for the SπRIT experiment
  • Lasko, P.; Adamczyk, M.; Brzychczyk, J.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 856 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.03.006
journal June 2017
Application of the Generic Electronics for Time Projection Chamber (GET) readout system for heavy Radioactive isotope collision experiments
  • Isobe, T.; Jhang, G.; Baba, H.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 899 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.05.022
journal August 2018
Extending the dynamic range of electronics in a Time Projection Chamber
  • Estee, J.; Lynch, W. G.; Barney, J.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 944 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.162509
journal November 2019
Space charge effects in the S π RIT time projection chamber
  • Tsang, C. Y.; Estee, J.; Wang, R.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 959 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.163477
journal April 2020
Charged particle track reconstruction with S π RIT Time Projection Chamber
  • Lee, J. W.; Jhang, G.; Cerizza, G.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 965 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.163840
journal June 2020
The RIKEN RI Beam Factory Project: A status report journal August 2007
Identification and separation of radioactive isotope beams by the BigRIPS separator at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory journal December 2013
Light cluster production in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions induced by neutron-rich nuclei journal December 2003
Systematics of central heavy ion collisions in the regime journal December 2010
Double neutron/proton ratio of nucleon emissions in isotopic reaction systems as a robust probe of nuclear symmetry energy journal March 2006
Neutron–proton elliptic flow difference as a probe for the high density dependence of the symmetry energy journal June 2011
Symmetry energy investigation with pion production from Sn+Sn systems journal February 2021
Neutron star observations: Prognosis for equation of state constraints journal April 2007
The equation of state of hot, dense matter and neutron stars journal March 2016
The nuclear symmetry energy journal November 2016
Dynamics of clusters and fragments in heavy-ion collisions journal March 2019
Cluster production within transport theory journal January 2016
A way forward in the study of the symmetry energy: experiment, theory, and observation journal July 2014
Cluster correlations in multifragmentation journal March 2013
BigRIPS separator and ZeroDegree spectrometer at RIKEN RI Beam Factory journal January 2012
Determination of the impact parameter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions journal October 1990
Blast of light fragments from central heavy-ion collisions journal November 1992
Nucleon flow and fragment flow in heavy ion reactions journal December 1993
Characteristics of the fragments produced in central collisions of 129 Xe + nat Sn from 32 A to 50 A MeV journal June 2003
Isospin effects on two-nucleon correlation functions in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies journal July 2003
Effects of momentum-dependent nuclear potential on two-nucleon correlation functions and light cluster production in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions journal May 2004
Triton-He3relative and differential flows as probes of the nuclear symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities journal October 2009
Composition and thermodynamics of nuclear matter with light clusters journal January 2010
Sensitivity of neutron to proton ratio toward the high density behavior of the symmetry energy in heavy-ion collisions journal February 2012
Constraints on the symmetry energy and neutron skins from experiments and theory journal July 2012
Nuclear matter equation of state including two-, three-, and four-nucleon correlations journal November 2015
Probing neutron-proton dynamics by pions journal April 2016
Light clusters and pasta phases in warm and dense nuclear matter journal April 2017
Effects of symmetry energy and effective k -mass splitting on central Ru96(Zr96)+Zr96(Ru96) collisions at 50 to 400 MeV/nucleon journal August 2017
Cluster formation and phase transition in nuclear disassembly using a variety of clusterization algorithms journal May 2019
Probing the Symmetry Energy with the Spectral Pion Ratio journal April 2021
Nuclear Stopping from0.09Ato1.93A  GeVand Its Correlation to Flow journal June 2004
Equations of state for supernovae and compact stars journal March 2017
Superconducting Dipole Magnet for SAMURAI Spectrometer journal June 2013
Determination of the Equation of State of Dense Matter journal October 2002
Probing the high-density behavior of symmetry energy with gravitational waves journal February 2014
3H/3He ratio as a probe of the nuclear symmetry energy at sub-saturation densities journal March 2015
Towards understanding astrophysical effects of nuclear symmetry energy journal July 2019
Antisymmetrized Version of Molecular Dynamics with Two-Nucleon Collisions and Its Application to Heavy Ion Reactions journal May 1992