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Session CH - Nuclear Reactions II.
ORAL session, Friday morning, October 29
Regency C, Hyatt Regency Chicago

[CH.011] Isospin diffusion in nuclear collisions

Tianxiao Liu, Manyee Tsang (National Superconducting Cyclotron and Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA,), Lijun Shi, Pawel Danielewicz, Konrad Gelbke, Xiaodong Liu, William Lynch, Wanpeng Tan, Giuseppe Verde, Andreas Wagner, Hushan Xu (National Superconducting Cyclotron and Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA), Luc Beaulieu, Brian Davin, Romualdo de Souza, Yves Larochelle, Thomas Lefort, Riccardo Yanez (Department of Chemistry and IUCF, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405), Victor Viola (AffiliationDepartment of Chemistry and IUCF, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405), Robert Charity, Lee Sobotka (Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA), William Friedman (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA), LASSA Collaboration

Isotopic yields in the velocity space for intermediate mass fragments have been measured for ^112Sn+^112Sn, ^112Sn+^124Sn, ^124Sn+^112Sn and ^124Sn+^124Sn peripheral collisions at E/A=50 MeV. Comparison of the intermediate mass fragments yields from different reactions with rapidity cut suggests that isospin equilibrium is not achieved. An isospin transport ratio Ri is construct by using isospin sensitive observables, such as isoscaling parameters and mirror nuclei ratios. This isospin transport ratio allows a quantitative analysis of the isospin transportation and assessment the transport rate. The density dependence of the asymmetry term of the nuclear equation of state is investigated by comparing the isospin transport ratio Ri obtained from experiment data and theoretical calculation.

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