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Population of bound excited states in intermediate-energy fragmentation reactions

A. Obertelli, A. Gade, D. Bazin, C. M. Campbell, J. M. Cook, P. D. Cottle, A. D. Davies, D. -C. Dinca, T. Glasmacher, P. G. Hansen, T. Hoagland, K. W. Kemper, J. -L. Lecouey, W. F. Mueller, R. R. Reynolds, B. T. Roeder, J. R. Terry, J. A. Tostevin, K. Yoneda, H. Zwahlen

nucl-exarXiv:nucl-ex/0603015

Abstract

Fragmentation reactions with intermediate-energy heavy-ion beams exhibit a wide range of reaction mechanisms, ranging from direct reactions to statistical processes. We examine this transition by measuring the relative population of excited states in several sd-shell nuclei produced by fragmentation with the number of removed nucleons ranging from two to sixteen. The two-nucleon removal is consistent with a non-dissipative process whereas the removal of more than five nucleons appears to be mainly statistical.

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