Neck instabilities in deep inelastic collisions at medium energies
Abstract
A novel reaction mechanism for semi-peripheral heavy ion collisions is discussed, due to new features of the nuclear dynamics in the overlapping region. In a very selected beam energy range, between 40 and 70 MeV/u, we see the onset of new neck instabilities coupled to an increasing amount of dynamical fluctuations. Expected consequences are a possibility of intermediate mass fragment emission from the neck region and large variances in the projectile-like and target-like observables.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics A
- Pub Date:
- February 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0375-9474(94)00714-X
- Bibcode:
- 1995NuPhA.583..525C