Thermally-induced expansion in the 8 GeV/c $π^-$ + $^{197}$Au reaction

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1999-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/9910017v3

Phys.Rev. C62 (2000) 031604

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

12 pages including 4 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.62.031604

Fragment kinetic energy spectra for reactions induced by 8.0 GeV/c $\rm{\pi^-}$ beams incident on a $\rm{^{197}}$Au target have been analyzed in order to deduce the possible existence and influence of thermal expansion. The average fragment kinetic energies are observed to increase systematically with fragment charge but are nearly independent of excitation energy. Comparison of the data with statistical multifragmentation models indicates the onset of extra collective thermal expansion near an excitation energy of E*/A $\rm{\approx}$ 5 MeV. However, this effect is weak relative to the radial expansion observed in heavy-ion-induced reactions, consistent with the interpretation that the latter expansion may be driven primarily by dynamical effects such as compression/decompression.

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