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Title: Isospin effect of Coulomb interaction on the dissipation and fragmentation in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
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  1. Department of Physics, Tianshui Normal College, Gansu Tianshui, 741000 (China)
  2. Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 31, Lanzhou 730000 (China)
  3. Center of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator, Lanzhou 730000 (China)

We investigate separately the isospin effects of Coulomb interaction and symmetry potential on the dissipation and fragmentation in the intermediate energy heavy ion collisions by using isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model. The calculated results show that the Coulomb interaction induces the reductions of both isospin fractionation ratio and nuclear stopping (momentum dissipation). However, the Coulomb interaction not only does not change obviously the strong isospin effect of the symmetry potential on the isospin fractionation ratio but also does not change obviously that of in-medium two-body collision on the nuclear stopping. On the contrary, the symmetry potential induces the enhancement of the isospin fractionation ratio but it is insensitive to the nuclear stopping. Finally, the competition between the Coulomb interaction and symmetry potential induces the reductions of both isospin fractionation ratio and nuclear stopping for two forms of symmetry potentials in this paper.

OSTI ID:
20695531
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics, Vol. 70, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.70.034610; (c) 2004 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2813
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English