Space-time Ambiguity of Two- and Three-fragment Reduced Velocity Correlation Functions

Authors

• T. Glasmacher, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• L. Phair, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• D. R. Bowman, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• C. K. Gelbke, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• W. G. Gong, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• Y. D. Kim, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• M. A. Lisa, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• W. G. Lynch, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• Graham F. Peaslee, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State UniversityFollow
• R. T. de Souza, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• M. B. Tsang, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University
• F. Zhu, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy Michigan State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-1995

Publication Source

Physical Review C

Volume Number

51

Issue Number

6

First Page

3489

Last Page

3491

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

Reduced-velocity correlation functions between two and three intermediate mass fragments are compared for central Ar36+197Ar collisions at E/A=50 MeV. Previously published N-body Coulomb-trajectory calculations, capable of reproducing the measured two-fragment reduced velocity-correlation function, describe the measured three-fragment correlation function equally well. Moreover, ambiguities between source size and lifetime observed in the analysis of two-fragment correlations remain unresolved in the three-fragment correlation function.

Recommended Citation

Published in: Physical Review C, Volume 51, Issue 6, June 1, 1995, pages 3489-3491. Copyright © 1995 American Physical Society.