Multifragmentation: thermal vs. dynamic effects

Abstract

Reactions of 1.8 - 4.8 GeV He-3, 5.0 - 9.2 GeV/c pi(-) and 6.0 - 14.6 GeV/c protons with Ag-nat and Au-197 targets have been studied with the ISiS 4 pi detector array. From reconstructed events, excitation-energy distributions have been determined and combined with a H-2,H-3/He-3,He-4 isotope-ratio thermometer to study the heating curve for the thermal-like component of these reactions. Dynamic effects also manifest themselves in the data, as evidenced by deposition-energy saturation above similar to 5 GeV, IMF emission during expansion,and sideways peaking of the IMF angular distributions for beam energies E-b greater than or equal to 10 GeV.

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NUCLEAR PHYSICS A