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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 385, Issue 2, 6 September 1982, Pages 331-348
Nuclear Physics A

Spin transfer in deep-inelastic collisions of light ions

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Abstract

The angular correlations of α-particles emitted from the fragments of the reactions 16O + 16O, 32S + 16O, 32S + 16Al were determined in experiments that employed large-area, position-sensitive ionization chambers. The in-plane correlations are isotropic in the rest frame of the emitter, but the out-of-plane correlations have an anisotropy of approximately 3. From the anisotropies the spin projections √〈Iz2〉 onto the z-axis perpendicular to the reaction plane were determined. It is shown that the values of the spin projection can be qualitatively understood by the fractionation of the initial angular momentum under the requirement of energy, angular-momentum and particle-flux conservation.

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