J. Lauret et al., DYNAMICS OF RADIAL COLLECTIVE ENERGY IN NEAR CENTRAL COLLISIONS FOR 1A GEV AU+C, Physical review. C. Nuclear physics, 57(3), 1998, pp. 1051-1055
Transverse kinetic energies of individual fragments have been measured
over a broad range of emitter excitation energies for the reaction 1A
GeV Au+C. For excitation energies leading to large intermediate mass
fragment multiplicities, these transverse energies require large colle
ctive radial expansion of the emitting systems. However, the tradition
al decomposition of the transverse energy into a thermal component and
a Coulomb and collective component proportional to the fragment mass
cannot account for this expansion. Expansion velocities show an increa
se with decreasing fragment Z and thus indicate fractionation of the c
ollective energy for the expanding system. This collective energy incr
eases with emitter excitation up to about 50% of the energy deposited
for a nuclear system with total energy similar to 12A MeV. The bulk of
the collective energy is carried away by ejectiles of Z less than or
equal to 3.