The decay of primary products in binary highly damped 208Pb + 197Au collisions at 29 MeV/u

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)90018-3

Physics Letters B

Volume 325, Issues 3–4, 21 April 1994, Pages 317-321

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Abstract

Events with fragment multiplicities up to eight have been detected with a large detector array in Pb + Au reactions at 29 MeV/u. All collisions show a binary character irrespective of a possible further disassembly of the two highly excited primary partners. For the most violent collisions, dissipative orbiting is observed as well as full energy damping corresponding to excitation energies as high as 6 MeV/u.

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^☆: Experiment performed at GANIL, Caen, France.

¹: On leave from INFN-Catania, Catania, Italy.

²: On leave from CRL (AECL), Chalk River, Ontario, Canada.

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The decay of primary products in binary highly damped 208Pb + 197Au collisions at 29 MeV/u☆

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Phys. Lett. B

Nucl. Phys. A

Nucl. Instrum. Methods A

Nucl. Instrum. Methods A

Nucl. Instrum. Methods A

Nucl. Instrum. Methods A

Nucl. Phys. A

Nucl. Phys. A

Nucl. Phys. A

Phys. Rep.

Nucl. Phys. A

The decay of primary products in binary highly damped ²⁰⁸Pb + ¹⁹⁷Au collisions at 29 MeV/u☆