Mass Distributions and Neutron-Proton Ratios of Fragments in Peripheral Heavy-Ion Collisions

Year 2022, Volume: 26 Issue: 5, 908 - 914, 20.10.2022

Hamide Avcı

https://doi.org/10.16984/saufenbilder.1105788

Abstract

The mass and average neutron-proton ratio (N/Z) distributions of fragments from multifragmentation of excited projectile nuclei formed in heavy-ion collisions were reproduced theoretically. The experimental measurements in peripheral heavy-ion collisions of 124Sn + 124Sn and 112Sn + 112Sn at 1 GeV/nucleon were carried out with the Fragment Separator (FRS) of GSI. The mass distribution and N/Z ratios of the produced nuclear fragments are calculated in the frame of a statistical approach. Comparisons with the experimental data show that the statistical models are successfully reproduce the mass yields and N/Z measured in the both reaction systems. The calculations in the present paper were carried out for the first time and were not published anywhere else.

Keywords

Mass Yield, Nuclear Multifragmentation, Neutron-Proton Ratio (N/Z)

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