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Energy equilibration and anomalous mass drift in heavy ion collisions

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Zeitschrift für Physik A Atoms and Nuclei

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The lack of mass drift towards symmetry observed in many Kr-induced reactions, and the excessive mass drift towards larger asymmetry in Ne, Ar-induced reactions, is explained in terms of a dynamical driving force towards larger mass asymmetries due to the attempt of the smaller fragment to contain its temperature gradient with respect to the heavy fragment.

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  1. Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleate, Catania, Italy

    Luciano G. Moretto

  2. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

    Luciano G. Moretto

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This work was partially supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Division of Nuclear Physics of the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics of the US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098.

The author acknowledges with gratitude the partial support of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud. The warm hospitality and cordial atmosphere provided by the director, Prof. E. Migneco, and by his colleagues is gratefully appreciated.

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Moretto, L.G. Energy equilibration and anomalous mass drift in heavy ion collisions. Z Physik A 310, 61–63 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01433611

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