Heavy ion reactions at E/A ≥ 10 mev/nucleon

Abstract

The energy dependence of heavy ion reactions above 10 MeV/nucleon is discussed. At higher projectile velocities,fragmentation and preequilibrium processes are becoming increasingly more important. Coincidence experiments performed with ¹⁶o ions at 20 MeV/nucleon indicate that the simple participant spectator model does not yet apply at this energy even though results from single particle inclusive measurements show great similarities when compared to data taken at relativistic energies.