Evidence for Orbital Dispersion in the Fragmentation of ${}^{16}O$ at 90 and 120 MeV/Nucleon

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17 September 1979

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Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 43 (12) , 840-844
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.840

Abstract

The parallel- and transverse-momentum distributions have been measured for fragments of

Z >~ 3

produced by the fragmentation of

{}^{16}O

at 90 and 120 MeV/nucleon. A strong anisotropy is observed with

σ_{p ⊥} \approx 200

MeV/c for all fragments, which can be explained by considering the dispersion due to orbital deflection of the projectile prior to breakup.

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