Direct Measurement of Dissipation in the Cl-35 + C-12 Reaction at 43 MeV/nucleon

Jul 15, 1996
3 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 462-465

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Abstract: (APS)
Characteristics of 35Cl+12C collisions at 43 MeV/nucleon have been studied for events with total charge detected ( ΣZ=23). It is shown that, while single-source events are present in the data, the binary nature of the collision is dominant. For binary events, the emitting sources (projectilelike and targetlike) were reconstructed independently allowing a direct measurement of the total dissipated energy. It is found that up to 75% of the available energy is dissipated and the significant momentum transfer of the selected events leads to the “equal temperature limit.”
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