Observation of Angular Momentum Saturation in Deep-Inelastic Processes Involving Light Heavy Ions

D. Shapira; D. Schull; J. L. C. Ford, Jr; B. Shivakumar; R. L. Parks; R. A. Cecil; S. T. Thornton

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1634

Observation of Angular Momentum Saturation in Deep-Inelastic Processes Involving Light Heavy Ions

D. Shapira, D. Schull, J. L. C. Ford, Jr., B. Shivakumar, R. L. Parks, R. A. Cecil, and S. T. Thornton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1634 – Published 22 October 1984

Abstract

The most probable value for the total kinetic energy of reaction products from strongly damped collisions of ${}^{28}{Si}$ + ${}^{12}C$ was found to increase with bombarding energy only up to a limiting value. This behavior suggests that the orbital angular momentum of the dinuclear complex formed in these collisions has reached a saturation value beyond which further increase is not possible.

Received 12 May 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.1634

Authors & Affiliations

D. Shapira, D. Schull^*, J. L. C. Ford, Jr.^†, and B. Shivakumar^‡

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

R. L. Parks^§, R. A. Cecil, and S. T. Thornton

Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901

^*Permanent address: Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, West Germany.
^†Deceased.
^‡Permanent address: A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 06520.
^§Present address: E-Systems, Falls Church, Va. 22046.