Abstract
Intermediate-rapidity fragments with emitted from 42-137-MeV/nucleon Ar + Au have been measured. Evidence is presented that these fragments arise from a common moving source. Entropy values are extracted from the mass distributions by use of quantum statistical and Hauser-Feshbach theories. The extracted entropy values of are much smaller than the values expected from measured deuteron-to-proton ratios, but are still considerably higher than theoretically predicted values.
- Received 22 August 1983
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1846
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