Nuclear fragmentation and the thermal liquid drop model

Thesis/Dissertation · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5484294

Paderewski, G L

This thesis contains the details of the experimental setup and preliminary results of an experiment to measure the products of nuclear fragmentation produced in the interaction of xenon nuclei with high energy protons in the threshold energy region (1 to 28 GeV incident energy). In this experiment the fragment's charge (2 less than or equal to Z less than or equal to 13) and kinetic energy were determined as a function of incident proton energy for scattering angles in the lab frame of 48.5/sup 0/ and 131.5/sup 0/. A description of the high energy p-nucleus reaction picture is presented based on the current level of understanding of nuclear fragmentation with emphasis on the experimental evidence. The details of the thermal Liquid Drop Model (TLDM), which accurately describes the products of fragmentation based on the assumption of a critical point phenomena are reviewed. The charged dispersion for nuclear fragmentation is derived from the TLDM and fits to earlier fragment data are presented.

• Research Organization: Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5484294
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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645103* -- High Energy Physics-- Particle Interactions & Properties-Experimental-- Strong Interactions & Baryon & Meson Properties
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION
BARYON REACTIONS
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
DATA
DISTRIBUTION
ELECTRIC CHARGES
ELEMENTS
ENERGY
ENERGY DEPENDENCE
ENERGY RANGE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLUIDS
GASES
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 01-10
GEV RANGE 10-100
HADRON REACTIONS
HYPOTHESIS
INFORMATION
KINETIC ENERGY
LIMITING FRAGMENTATION
LIQUID DROP MODEL
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NONMETALS
NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS
NUCLEAR MODELS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEON REACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
PROTON REACTIONS
RARE GASES
SPALLATION
THEORETICAL DATA
XENON