Fast-Particle Emission in the Deep-Inelastic Reaction Cu+Ne20at 12.6 MeV/nucleon

Abstract
Fast protons (1-2.4 times the beam velocity) have been studied. The spectral shapes in both singles and coincidence are similar. The most energetic protons are associated with intermediate-velocity products rather than beam-velocity ones. The observed high energies and the forward-peaked angular distributions could be explained by evaporation calculations which included thermal fluctuations in the division of the excitation energy between the two fragments of the intermediate complex.