Abstract
We have investigated the effect of decay on nuclear temperature measurements in the N+Ag reaction at E/A=35 MeV. We have determined what percentage of the apparent spectrum is due to the identification of the coincident alpha particles from decay as . This information, coupled with previously published temperature measurements, produces agreement between temperatures obtained from excited state populations and those obtained from excited state populations. Additionally, we measured the production of the excited states of and nuclei emitted from the same reaction at beam energies of E/A=20 MeV and E/A=25 MeV. The temperatures extracted from these excited state populations are consistent with one another when corrected for the contamination of the spectra.
- Received 14 April 1986
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.34.850
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