Particle-particle angular correlations in peripheral heavy-ion reactions

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90745-6

Physics Letters B

Volume 71, Issue 1, 7 November 1977, Pages 83-86

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Abstract

Angular correlations between fast α-particles and outgoing heavy reaction products have been measured for the reactions (¹⁶O, ^12,13,14Cα) and (¹⁶O, ¹⁴Nα) on ²⁰⁸Pb and ¹⁹⁷Au targets at 140 and 310 MeV laboratory energy. For a wide range of energy losses, coincident particles are preferentially emitted on the same side of the beam axis. The results are compared with recent qualitative predictions.

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¹: Present address: Physics Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824.

²: Nato Fellow, on leave from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy.

³: Present address: Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439.

⁴: On leave from C.N.R.S., Caen, France.

⁵: On leave from C.E.N., Saclay, France.

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