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Z-dependent barriers in multifragmentation from Poissonian reducibility and thermal scaling

Conference ·
OSTI ID:334365
The authors explore the natural limit of binomial reducibility in nuclear multifragmentation by constructing excitation functions for intermediate mass fragments (IMF) of a given element Z. The resulting multiplicity distributions for each window of transverse energy are Poissonian. Thermal scaling is observed in the linear Arrhenius plots made from the average multiplicity of each element. Emission barriers are extracted from the slopes of the Arrhenius plots and their possible origin is discussed.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Nuclear Science Div., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON (Canada)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
334365
Report Number(s):
LBNL--41939; CONF-980185--; ON: DE99002391
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English