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Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3836–3839 (1997)

Nuclear Thermometers from Isotope Yield Ratios

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M. B. Tsang, W. G. Lynch, and H. Xi
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

W. A. Friedman
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Received 8 July 1996; published in the issue dated 19 May 1997

The apparent temperatures measured with double ratios of fragment isotope yields display fluctuations that can be attributed to the sequential decay of heavier particle unstable nuclei. Empirical correction factors which minimize these fluctuations have been obtained for 18 isotope thermometers. These factors appear to be common to the three reactions studied suggesting their application to different reactions at different incident energies.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.3836
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.3836
PACS:
25.70.Pq, 24.60.Ky, 25.70.Gh, 25.70.Mn
 
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