Are hot light nuclei liquid droplets?

A. Szanto de Toledo; E. M. Szanto; M. Wotfe; B. V. Carlson; R. Donangelo; W. Bohne; K. Grabish; H. Morgenstern; S. Proshitzki

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2070

Are hot light nuclei liquid droplets?

A. Szanto de Toledo, E. M. Szanto, M. Wotfe, B. V. Carlson, R. Donangelo, W. Bohne, K. Grabish, H. Morgenstern, and S. Proshitzki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2070 – Published 5 April 1993

Abstract

The mass distributions from the sequential decay of the compound nuclei formed by the ${}^{10}B$ $+^{9}$ Be and ${}^{10}B$ $+^{10}$ B reactions at $E_{lab}$ ≃11A MeV show no evidence of nuclear structure effects. We thus conclude that hot composite systems as light as ${}^{19}F$ and ${}^{20}{Ne}$ can behave like liquid droplets with no remnant shell effects.