Coulomb proximity decay: A clock for measuring the particle emission time scale
Nuclear Experiment
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
A new method to examine the time scale of particle emission from hot nuclei is explored. Excited projectile-like and target-like fragments decay as they separate following a peripheral heavy-ion collision. Their mutual Coulomb influence results in an anisotropic angular distribution of emitted particles, providing a measure of the particle emission time scale. Predictions of a schematic evaporation model are presented and compared to experimental data.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0308031,
title = {Coulomb proximity decay: A clock for measuring the particle emission time scale},
author = {S. Hudan and A. S. Botvina and R. Alfaro and L. Beaulieu and B. Davin and Y. Larochelle and T. Lefort and V. E. Viola and H. Xu and R. Yanez and R. T. de Souza and T. X. Liu and X. D. Liu and W. G. Lynch and R. Shomin and W. P. Tan and M. B. Tsang and A. Vander Molen and A. Wagner and H. F. Xi and R. J. Charity and L. G. Sobotka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0308031},
year = {2007}
}
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10 pages, 5 figures