Thermal hard-photons probing multifragmentation in nuclear collisions around the Fermi energy

Abstract

Hard-photon (E${}_{\gamma }>$ 30 MeV) emission issuing from proton-neutron bremsstrahlung collisions is investigated in four different heavy-ion reactions at intermediate bombarding energies (${}^{36}$Ar+${}^{197}$Au, ${}^{107}$Ag, ${}^{58}$Ni, ${}^{12}$C at 60{\it A} MeV) coupling the TAPS photon spectrometer with two charged-particle multidetectors covering more than 80% of the solid angle. The hard-photon spectra of the three heavier targets result from the combination of two distinct exponential distributions with different slope parameters, a result which deviates from the behaviour expected for hard-photon production just in first-chance proton-neutron collisions. The thermal origin of the steeper bremsstrahlung component is confirmed by the characteristics of its slope and angular distribution. Such thermal hard-photons convey undisturbed information of the thermodynamical state of hot and excited nuclear systems undergoing multifragmentation.

For the TAPS collaboration, 11 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Proceedings V TAPS Workshop, Rez near Prague, September 1999 (to be published in Czech. Jour. Phys.)

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