CENTRAL COLLISIONS OF AU ON AU AT 150, 250 AND 400 A-CENTER-DOT-MEV

Citation
W. Reisdorf et al., CENTRAL COLLISIONS OF AU ON AU AT 150, 250 AND 400 A-CENTER-DOT-MEV, Nuclear physics. A, 612(3-4), 1997, pp. 493-556
Citations number
128
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
ISSN journal
03759474
Volume
612
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
493 - 556
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9474(1997)612:3-4<493:CCOAOA>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Collisions of Au on Au at incident energies of 150, 250 and 400 A . Me V were studied with the FOPI-facility at GSI Darmstadt. Nuclear charge (Z less than or equal to 15) and velocity of the products were detect ed with full azimuthal acceptance at laboratory angles 1 degrees less than or equal to theta(lab) less than or equal to 30 degrees. Isotope separated light charged particles were measured with movable multiple telescopes in an angular range of 6-90 degrees. Central collisions rep resenting about 1% of the reaction cross section were selected by requ iring high total transverse energy, but vanishing side Row. The veloci ty space distributions and yields of the emitted fragments are reporte d. The data are analysed in terms of a thermal model including radial flow. A comparison with predictions of the quantum molecular model is presented.