Multifragmentation: Surface instabilities or statistical decay?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the decay of hot nuclei over a wide range of excitation energy in the reaction 35 Cl+ 197 Au at 30 A MeV, and the behavior of the excited nuclei is consistent with a statistical description.

TL;DR: In this article, exit channel cross sections in quasi-elastic and transfer reactions have been measured in the 24Mg+197Au reaction at 70A MeV, and the linear relation between the logarithm of Pn/P2 an d E − 1 2, showed that deexcitation is statistical.

TL;DR: The incomplete-fusion–fragmentation model is modified to analyze ALADIN multifragmentation data of the projectile remnant in reactions of 600 MeV/nucleon Au on different targets.

TL;DR: In this article, the photon-interaction cross-sections of the isotopes of the electron and bremsstrahlung-induced fission cross sections have been measured over the energy range 60-1000 MeV and good agreement was obtained on the assumption of $E1$ or $M1$ transitions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the competition between evaporation, fission and multifragmentation as a function of bombarding energies and impact parameters, and found that the stage of a possible clusterization appears to be strongly dependent on the energy, such that the fragmentation occurs at a nearly invariant temperature.

TL;DR: A simple transformation has been applied which gives the excitation energy of the fused system in the simple incomplete-fusion picture and these ``excitation functions'' appear to independent of both the system and bombarding energy.

TL;DR: Simulations based on the Landau-Vlasov model of central collisions between very heavy nuclei around 30 MeV per nucleon reveal the occurence of the Coulomb instability as already predicted by static calculations of hot nuclei a few years ago as discussed by the authors.