Nuclear Stopping at Intermediate Beam Energies

We perform an analysis of exclusive heavy-ion reactions around 100 MeV/nucleon in terms of multipole moments of the momentum distribution of nucleons. Numerical calculations based on the Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck theory are presented and compared to an approximate scaling function. We find that nuclei completely stop each other even at 100 MeV/nucleon, if $A_P+A_T>200\mathrm{}$ in symmetrical central collisions. We propose that the mass dependence of the quadrupole momentum tensor can be used to determine the nuclear compressibility.