Origins of Intermediate Velocity Particle Production in Heavy Ion Reactions
L. Gingras, A. Chernomoretz, Y. Larochelle, Z.Y. He, L. Beaulieu, G.C. Ball, F. Grenier, D. Horn, R. Roy, M. Samri, C. St-Pierre, D. Theriault, S. Turbide
Abstract
Investigation of intermediate-velocity particle production is performed on entrance channel mass asymmetric collisions of 58Ni+C and 58Ni+Au at 34.5 MeV/nucleon. Distinctions between prompt pre-equilibrium ejections, multiple neck ruptures and an alternative phenomenon of delayed aligned asymmetric breakup is achieved using source reconstructed correlation observables and time-based cluster recognition in molecular dynamics simulations.