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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 646061-646068 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2002 |