Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2013

Publication Source

Physical Review C

Volume Number

88

Issue Number

4

Publisher

American Physical Society

ISSN

0556-2813

Abstract

The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) and 4 Tm Sweeper magnet were used to measure the free neutrons and heavy charged particles from the radioactive ion beam induced Mg-32 + Be-9 reaction. The fragmentation reaction was simulated with the constrained molecular dynamics model (CoMD), which demonstrated that the < N/Z > of the heavy fragments and free neutron multiplicities were observables sensitive to the density dependence of the symmetry energy at subsaturation densities. Through comparison of these simulations with the experimental data, constraints on the density dependence of the symmetry energy were extracted. The advantage of radioactive ion beams as a probe of the symmetry energy is demonstrated through examination of CoMD calculations for stable and radioactive-beam-induced reactions.

Keywords

Equation-of-state, Sweeper Magnet, Nuclear-matter, Dense Matter, Collisions, Radius, Array

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