Isotope yields from central ^112,124Sn+^112,124Sn collisions: Dynamical emission?

Isotopic yields for light particles and intermediate mass fragments have been measured for central ¹¹²Sn + ¹¹²Sn, ¹¹²Sn+¹²⁴Sn, ¹²⁴Sn+¹¹²Sn, and ¹²⁴Sn+¹²⁴Sn collisions at E/A=50 MeV and compared with predictions of stochastic mean field calculations. These calculations predict a sensitivity of the isotopic distributions to the density dependence of the asymmetry term of the nuclear equation of state. However, the secondary decay of the excited fragments modifies significantly the primary isotopic distributions and these modifications are rather sensitive to theoretical uncertainties in the excitation energies of the hot fragments. The predicted final isotope distributions are narrower than the experimental data and the sensitivity of the predicted yields to the density dependence of the asymmetry term is reduced.