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Study of Isoscaling with Statistical Multifragmentation Models

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06/2001;
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT

Different statistical multifragmentation models have been used to study isoscaling, i.e. the factorization of the isotope ratios from two reactions, into fugacity terms of proton and neutron number, R21(N,Z)=Y2(N,Z)/Y1(N,Z)=C*exp(a*N+b*Z). Even though the primary isotope distributions are quite different from the final distributions due to evaporation from the excited fragments, the values of a and b are not much affected by sequential decays. a is shown to be mainly sensitive to the proton and neutron composition of the emitting source and may be used to study isospin-dependent properties in nuclear collisions such as the symmetry energy in the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter.

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• "A precise determination of the temperature achieved in nuclear reactions has become a priority in the study of heavy ion reactions. For example, recent investigations involving radioactive isotopes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] promise to elucidate the role of the asymmetry mass terms of the nuclear equation of state through the phenomenon of isoscaling. For this, however, similar but isotopically different reactions must reach a common equilibrium temperature T at the same time. "
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• "where α and β are fitting parameters. Equations of the form of (1) can be linked, under some approximations, to primary isotope yields produced by disassembling infinite equilibrated systems in microcanonical and grand canonical ensembles [4], as well as to breakups in canonical [6] ensembles. Little reflection is needed to understand that R 21 could be affected by many reaction variables. "
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