Fast-Particle Emission in the Deep-Inelastic Reaction Cu+<span class="aps-inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mmultiscripts><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">Ne</mi></mrow><mprescripts></mprescripts><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>20</mn></mrow><mrow></mrow><mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts></mrow></math></span> at 12.6 MeV/nucleon

R. P. Schmitt; G. J. Wozniak; G. U. Rattazzi; G. J. Mathews; R. Regimbart; L. G. Moretto

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.522

Fast-Particle Emission in the Deep-Inelastic Reaction Cu+ ${}^{20}{Ne}$ at 12.6 MeV/nucleon

R. P. Schmitt, G. J. Wozniak, G. U. Rattazzi, G. J. Mathews, R. Regimbart, and L. G. Moretto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 46, 522 – Published 23 February 1981

Abstract

Fast protons (1-2.4 times the beam velocity) have been studied. The spectral shapes in both singles and coincidence are similar. The most energetic protons are associated with intermediate-velocity products rather than beam-velocity ones. The observed high energies and the forward-peaked angular distributions could be explained by evaporation calculations which included thermal fluctuations in the division of the excitation energy between the two fragments of the intermediate complex.

Received 25 July 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.522

Authors & Affiliations

R. P. Schmitt^*, G. J. Wozniak, G. U. Rattazzi, G. J. Mathews^†, R. Regimbart^‡, and L. G. Moretto

Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

^*Present address: Cyclotron Institute and Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M University, College Station, Tex. 77843.
^†Present address: W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, 106-38, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Cal. 91125.
^‡Present address: Laboratoires de Physique Corpusculaire, Université de Caën, F-1400 Caën, France.