Breakup time scale studied in the 8 GeV/c π- + 197 Au reaction

  • L. Pienkowski
  • , K. Kwiatkowski
  • , T. Lefort
  • , W. C. Hsi
  • , L. Beaulieu
  • , V. E. Viola
  • , A. Botvina
  • , R. G. Korteling
  • , R. Laforest
  • , E. Martin
  • , E. Ramakrishnan
  • , D. Rowland
  • , A. Ruangma
  • , E. Winchester
  • , S. J. Yennello
  • , B. Back
  • , H. Breuer
  • , S. Gushue
  • , L. P. Remsberg

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Abstract

Experimental data from the reaction of an 8.0 GeV/c π- beam incident on a 197Au target have been analyzed in order to investigate the breakup time scale for hot residues. Helium nuclei angular distributions and energy spectra supported by a momentum tensor analysis suggest that at large excitation energy, above 3 - 5 MeV/nucleon, highly excited heavy fragments are separated promptly after the thermalization. A binary fission-like mechanism fits the experimental data at low excitation energies, but seems unable to reproduce the data at excitation energies above 3 - 5 MeV/nucleon.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)646061-646068
Number of pages8
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume65
Issue number6
StatePublished - Jun 1 2002

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