Abstract
Energy spectra for intermediate mass fragments produced in central Au + Au collisions at MeV indicate a collective expansion at breakup. For the first time, values for this collective expansion energy per nucleon are extracted independently for each charge. Typically, these values are one-third to one-half of the incident kinetic energy per nucleon in the c.m. system, but they decrease with , suggesting that all fragments do not participate equally in the collective expansion.
- Received 29 April 1994
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.3367
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