Observation of Angular Momentum Saturation in Deep-Inelastic Processes Involving Light Heavy Ions

22 October 1984

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 53 (17) , 1634-1637
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.1634

Abstract

The most probable value for the total kinetic energy of reaction products from strongly damped collisions of

{}^{28}{Si}

{}^{12}C

was found to increase with bombarding energy only up to a limiting value. This behavior suggests that the orbital angular momentum of the dinuclear complex formed in these collisions has reached a saturation value beyond which further increase is not possible.

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