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Session BG - Heavy Ion Reactions at Low and Intermediate Energies.
ORAL session, Thursday afternoon, October 05
General Jackson's Redoubt, Fort Magruder Conference Center

[BG.004] Imaging of emitting sources in heavy ion collisions by d-alpha correlation functions

G. Verde (National SUperconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University), David A. Brown (Institute of Nuclear Theory, University of Washington), P. Danielewicz, C.K. Gelbke, T.X. Liu, X.D. Liu, W.G. Lynch, W.P. Tan, M.B. Tsang, H.S. Xu, H.F. Xi (NSCL/MSU), B. David, R.T. deSouza, Y. Larochelle (IUCF, Indiana University), R.J. Charity, L.G. Sobotka (Dep. of Chemistry, Washington University)

Correlation functions between particles and fragments produced in heavy ion collisions can be used to investigate the space-time extent of the emitting sources. Such information can be very useful for achieving a better understanding of nuclear reaction and fragmentation mechanisms at intermediate energies. In this work, the technique recently proposed for imaging emitting sources in heavy ion collisions (D.A. Brown, P. Danielewicz, Phys. Lett.

B398 (1997), 252), has been extended and applied to the experimental d-alpha correlation functions extracted in Sn+Sn reactions at 50 AMEV studied at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory of the MSU, by using the LASSA multidetector system (Large Area Silicon Strips-CsI(Tl)). Results and further implications of such studies will be presented. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-95-28844 and PHY-0070818.

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