Abstract
The production of several massive fragments in the decay of a very excited compound nucleus is studied using simultaneous and sequential mechanisms of fragment production. The calculated massive-fragment multiplicities exhibit remarkably similar behaviors as functions of the excitation energy, thus ruling out using this observable as an experimental signature of the dominant fragmentation mechanism.
- Received 9 October 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.48.465
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