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Intermittency in {sup 197}Au fragmentation

Abstract

The concept of factorial moments was applied to an analysis of the dynamical fluctuations in the charge distributions of the fragments emitted from gold nuclei with energies 10.6 and < 1.0 GeV/n interacting with emulsion nuclei. Clear evidence for intermittent fluctuations has been found in an analysis using all the particles released from the gold projectile, with a stronger effect observed below 1 GeV/n than at 10.6 GeV/n. For the full data sets, however, the intermittency effect was found to be very sensitive to the singly charged particles, and neglecting these particles strongly reduces the intermittency signal. When the analysis is restricted to the multiply charged fragments, an intermittency effect is revealed only for multifragmentation events, although one that is enhanced as compared to the analysis of all, singly and multiply charged, particles. The properties of the anomalous fractal dimensions suggest a sequential decay mechanism, rather than the existence of possible critical behaviour in the process of nuclear fragmentation. The likely influence of the charge conservation effects and the finite size of decaying systems on the observed intermittency signals was pointed out. (author). 37 refs, 9 figs, 5 tabs.
Authors:
Dabrowska, A; Holynski, R; Olszewski, A; Szarska, M; Wilczynska, B; Wolter, W; Wosiek, B; [1]  Cherry, M L; Deines-Jones, P; Jones, W V; Sengupta, K; Wefel, B; [2]  Waddington, C J; [3]  Pozharova, E A; Skorodko, T Yu; [4]  KLMM Collaboration
  1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow (Poland)
  2. Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN (United States). School of Physics and Astronomy
  4. Inst. of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
Publication Date:
Jul 01, 1995
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
INP-1692/PH
Reference Number:
SCA: 663450; PA: AIX-27:017586; EDB-96:042026; NTS-96:014594; SN: 96001547072
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jul 1995
Subject:
66 PHYSICS; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION; REACTION KINETICS; CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; FRACTALS; GOLD 197 REACTIONS; NUCLEAR EMULSIONS
OSTI ID:
186002
Research Organizations:
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow (Poland)
Country of Origin:
Poland
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE96615259; CNN: KBN Grant No. 2-P03B1-84-09; Grant NSF No. PHY-9213621 and INT-8913051; Grant No. DOE-FG02-89ER40528; TRN: PL9500732017586
Availability:
INIS; OSTI as DE96615259
Submitting Site:
PLN
Size:
25 p.
Announcement Date:
Feb 28, 1996

Citation Formats

Dabrowska, A, Holynski, R, Olszewski, A, Szarska, M, Wilczynska, B, Wolter, W, Wosiek, B, Cherry, M L, Deines-Jones, P, Jones, W V, Sengupta, K, Wefel, B, Waddington, C J, Pozharova, E A, Skorodko, T Yu, and KLMM Collaboration. Intermittency in {sup 197}Au fragmentation. Poland: N. p., 1995. Web.
Dabrowska, A, Holynski, R, Olszewski, A, Szarska, M, Wilczynska, B, Wolter, W, Wosiek, B, Cherry, M L, Deines-Jones, P, Jones, W V, Sengupta, K, Wefel, B, Waddington, C J, Pozharova, E A, Skorodko, T Yu, &amp; KLMM Collaboration. Intermittency in {sup 197}Au fragmentation. Poland.
Dabrowska, A, Holynski, R, Olszewski, A, Szarska, M, Wilczynska, B, Wolter, W, Wosiek, B, Cherry, M L, Deines-Jones, P, Jones, W V, Sengupta, K, Wefel, B, Waddington, C J, Pozharova, E A, Skorodko, T Yu, and KLMM Collaboration. 1995. "Intermittency in {sup 197}Au fragmentation." Poland.
@misc{etde_186002,
title = {Intermittency in {sup 197}Au fragmentation}
author = {Dabrowska, A, Holynski, R, Olszewski, A, Szarska, M, Wilczynska, B, Wolter, W, Wosiek, B, Cherry, M L, Deines-Jones, P, Jones, W V, Sengupta, K, Wefel, B, Waddington, C J, Pozharova, E A, Skorodko, T Yu, and KLMM Collaboration}
abstractNote = {The concept of factorial moments was applied to an analysis of the dynamical fluctuations in the charge distributions of the fragments emitted from gold nuclei with energies 10.6 and < 1.0 GeV/n interacting with emulsion nuclei. Clear evidence for intermittent fluctuations has been found in an analysis using all the particles released from the gold projectile, with a stronger effect observed below 1 GeV/n than at 10.6 GeV/n. For the full data sets, however, the intermittency effect was found to be very sensitive to the singly charged particles, and neglecting these particles strongly reduces the intermittency signal. When the analysis is restricted to the multiply charged fragments, an intermittency effect is revealed only for multifragmentation events, although one that is enhanced as compared to the analysis of all, singly and multiply charged, particles. The properties of the anomalous fractal dimensions suggest a sequential decay mechanism, rather than the existence of possible critical behaviour in the process of nuclear fragmentation. The likely influence of the charge conservation effects and the finite size of decaying systems on the observed intermittency signals was pointed out. (author). 37 refs, 9 figs, 5 tabs.}
place = {Poland}
year = {1995}
month = {Jul}
}