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| Journal Article | PreJuSER-55351 |
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2006
Springer
Berlin
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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/10616 doi:10.1140/epja/i2005-10277-9
Abstract: Measured hard-photon multiplicities from second-chance nucleon-nucleon collisions are used in combination with a kinetic thermal model to estimate the breakup times of excited nuclear systems produced in nucleus-nucleus reactions at intermediate energies. The obtained nuclear breakup time for the Xe-129 + Sn-nat reaction at 50 A MeV is Delta tau approximate to 100-300 fm/c for all reaction centralities. The lifetime of the radiating sources produced in seven other different heavy-ion reactions studied by the TAPS experiment is consistent with Delta tau approximate to 100 fm/c, such relatively long thermal photon emission times do not seemingly support the interpretation of nuclear breakup as due to a fast spinodal process for the heavy nuclear systems studied.
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