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nucl-ex2005★ 6 cited

Size and asymmetry of the reaction entrance channel: influence on the probability of neck production

P. M. Milazzo, G. Vannini, C. Agodi +17

The results of experiments performed to investigate the Ni+Al, Ni+Ni, Ni+Ag reactions at 30 MeV/nucleon are presented. From the study of dissipative midperipheral collisions, it ha…

nucl-ex2002★ 8 cited

Isotopic composition of fragments in multifragmentation of very large nuclear systems: effects of the chemical equilibrium

P. M. Milazzo, A. S. Botvina, G. Vannini +9

Studies on the isospin of fragments resulting from the disassembly of highly excited large thermal-like nuclear emitting sources, formed in the ^{197}Au + ^{197}Au reaction at 35 M…

nucl-ex2002★ 26 cited

Critical behaviors in central and peripheral collisions: a comparative analysis

M. D'Agostino, M. Bruno, F. Gulminelli +9

Quasi-projectile events from peripheral 35 A.MeV Au+ Au collisions are compared to central Au + C, Au + Cu and Au + Au events in the same range of excitation energy in terms of cri…

nucl-ex2001★ 79 cited

On the reliability of negative heat capacity measurements

M. D'Agostino, R. Bougault, F. Gulminelli +9

A global protocol for the thermostatistical analysis of hot nuclear sources is discussed. Within our method of minimization of variances we show that the abnormal kinetic energy fl…

nucl-ex2001★ 17 cited

Strong enhancement of extremely energetic proton production in central heavy ion collisions at intermediate energy

P. Sapienza, R. Coniglione, M. Colonna +27

The energetic proton emission has been investigated as a function of the reaction centrality for the system 58Ni + 58Ni at 30A MeV. Extremely energetic protons (EpNN > 130 MeV) wer…

nucl-ex2000★ 23 cited

Contemporary presence of dynamical and statistical production of intermediate mass fragments in midperipheral Ni+Ni collisions at 30 MeV/nucleon

P. M. Milazzo, G. Vannini, M. Sisto +25

The reaction at 30 MeV/nucleon has been experimentally investigated at the Superconducting Cyclotron of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud. In midperipheral co…

nucl-ex2000★ 13 cited

Time Scales in Spectator Fragmentation

C. Schwarz

Proton-proton correlations and correlations of p-alpha, d-alpha, and t-alpha from spectator decays following Au + Au collisions at 1000 AMeV have been measured with an highly effic…

nucl-ex2000★ 52 cited

Fragment Kinetic Energies and Modes of Fragment Formation

T. Odeh, ALADIN collaboration

Kinetic energies of light fragments A <= 10 from the decay of target spectators in 197Au 197Au collisions at 1000 MeV per nucleon have been measured with high-resolution telescopes…

nucl-ex2000★ 9 cited

Isotopic Composition of Fragments in Nuclear Multifragmentation

P. M. Milazzo, A. S. Botvina, G. Vannini +6

The isotope yields of fragments, produced in the decay of the quasiprojectile in Au+Au peripheral collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon and those coming from the disassembly of the unique s…

nucl-ex1999★ 4 cited

A statistical interpretation of the correlation between intermediate mass fragment multiplicity and transverse energy

L. Phair, L. Beaulieu, L. G. Moretto +29

Multifragment emission following Xe+Au collisions at 30, 40, 50 and 60 AMeV has been studied with multidetector systems covering nearly 4-pi in solid angle. The correlations of bot…

nucl-ex1999★ 230 cited

Negative heat capacity in the critical region of nuclear fragmentation: an experimental evidence of the liquid-gas phase transition

M. D'Agostino, F. Gulminelli, Ph. Chomaz +12

An experimental indication of negative heat capacity in excited nuclear systems is inferred from the event by event study of energy fluctuations in quasi-projectile sources fo…

nucl-ex1999★ 33 cited

Breakup Density in Spectator Fragmentation

S. Fritz, ALADIN collaboration

Proton-proton correlations and correlations of protons, deuterons and tritons with alpha particles from spectator decays following 197Au + 197Au collisions at 1000 MeV per nucleon…

nucl-ex1999★ 140 cited

Thermodynamical features of multifragmentation in peripheral Au + Au Collisions at 35 A.MeV

M. D'Agostino, A. S. Botvina, M. Bruno +13

The distribution of fragments produced in events involving the multifragmentation of excited sources is studied for peripheral Au + Au reactions at 35 A.MeV. The Quasi-Projectile h…

nucl-ex1998★ 12 cited

Breakup Conditions of Projectile Spectators from Dynamical Observables

M. Begemann-Blaich, ALADIN collaboration

Momenta and masses of heavy projectile fragments (Z >= 8), produced in collisions of 197Au with C, Al, Cu and Pb targets at E/A = 600 MeV, were determined with the ALADIN magnetic…

nucl-ex1998★ 78 cited

Temperatures of Exploding Nuclei

Volker Serfling, ALADIN collaboration

Breakup temperatures in central collisions of 197Au + 197Au at bombarding energies E/A = 50 to 200 MeV were determined with two methods. Isotope temperatures, deduced from double r…

nucl-ex1997

Emission temperatures and freeze out densities from light particle correlation functions in Au+Au collisions at 1 A GeV

S. Fritz, ALADIN collaboration

A study of emission temperatures extracted from excited state populations and of freeze out radii from light particle intensity interferometry is presented. Three high resolution d…

nucl-ex1997★ 89 cited

Breakup Temperature of Target Spectators in Au + Au Collisions at E/A = 1000 MeV

Hongfei Xi, ALADIN collaboration

Breakup temperatures were deduced from double ratios of isotope yields for target spectators produced in the reaction Au + Au at 1000 MeV per nucleon. Pairs of He and $^{6,…

nucl-ex1996

Critical Behavior in Peripheral Au + Au Collisions at 35 MeV/u

M. Bruno, P. F. Mastinu, M. Belkacem +28

The signals theoretically predicted for the occurrence of a critical behavior (conditional moments of charge distributions, Campi scatter plot, fluctuations of the size of the larg…

nucl-ex1996★ 1 cited

Last Minute from ALADIN: Temperature measurements in Au+Au reactions at relativistic energies

G. Imme, ALADIN collaboration

We report on temperature measurements of nuclear systems formed in the Au+Au collisions at incident energies of 50, 100, 150, 200 and 1000 A MeV. The target spectator matter was st…

nucl-ex1996★ 228 cited

Universality of Spectator Fragmentation at Relativistic Bombarding Energies

A. Schuettauf, W. D. Kunze, A. Woerner +45

Multi-fragment decays of 129Xe, 197Au, and 238U projectiles in collisions with Be, C, Al, Cu, In, Au, and U targets at energies between E/A = 400 MeV and 1000 MeV have been studied…

nucl-ex1996

Signals of a Critical Behavior in Peripheral Au + Au Collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon

P. F. Mastinu, M. Belkacem, D. R. Bowman +29

Multifragment events resulting from peripheral Au + Au collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon are analysed in terms of critical behavior. The analysis of most of criticality signals proposed…

nucl-ex1995★ 125 cited

Statistical Multifragmentation in Central Au+Au Collisions at 35 MeV/u

M. D'Agostino, A. S. Botvina, P. M. Milazzo +32

Multifragment disintegrations, measured for central Au + Au collisions at E/A = 35 MeV, are analyzed with the Statistical Multifragmentation Model. Charge distributions, mean fragm…

nucl-ex1995★ 48 cited

Circumstantial Evidence for a Critical Behavior in Peripheral Au + Au Collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon

P. F. Mastinu, M. Belkacem, M. D'Agostino +31

The fragmentation resulting from peripheral Au + Au collisions at an incident energy of E = 35 MeV/nucleon is investigated. A power-law charge distribution, with $τ\approx…

nucl-ex1995★ 34 cited

Multifragment production in Au+Au at 35 MeV/u

M. D'Agostino, P. F. Mastinu, P. M. Milazzo +31

Multifragment disintegration has been measured with a high efficiency detection system for the reaction at . From the event shape analysis and the comparis…