1. Highest temperatures sustainable in heavy nuclei produced in Ar+Au collisions at 60 AMeV
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UCL - SC/PHYS - Département de physique, Lecolley, FR, Benoit, B, Bizard, G., Costa, G., Dorvaux, O., Durand, D., El Masri, Youssef, Guillaume, G., Gulminelli, F, Hanappe, F., Heusch, B., Huck, A., Keutgen, Thomas, Lebrun, C., Lefebvres, F, Louvel, M., Ninane, Alain, Regimbart, R., Rudolf, G, Steckmeyer, JC., Stuttge, L., Tamain, B., Tilquin, I., UCL - SC/PHYS - Département de physique, Lecolley, FR, Benoit, B, Bizard, G., Costa, G., Dorvaux, O., Durand, D., El Masri, Youssef, Guillaume, G., Gulminelli, F, Hanappe, F., Heusch, B., Huck, A., Keutgen, Thomas, Lebrun, C., Lefebvres, F, Louvel, M., Ninane, Alain, Regimbart, R., Rudolf, G, Steckmeyer, JC., Stuttge, L., Tamain, B., and Tilquin, I.
- Abstract
The specific decay mode of hot nuclei surviving fission or fragmentation and leading in the final state to the production of a large residue has been studied in Ar+Au collisions at 60 A MeV. The temperature of these residues has been obtained by analysing the kinematical characteristics (angular and kinetic energy distributions) of the coincident neutrons detected by the DEMON neutron detector, A total cross section of 50 mb has been measured for the production of residues with an initial temperature of 6 MeV or more. This result is compared with the predictions of a microscopic transport model. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
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- 1997