The possibility of time resonance (explosion) phenomena in high-energy nuclear reactions

• Authors: Vladislav Olkhovsky , Marina Dolinska , Sergey Omelchenko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study shows that the exponential decrease of the energy spectra, accompanied by slight oscillations, with final-fragment energy in high-energy nuclear reaction, and independent of fragments, targets, projectiles, and projectile energies, can be explained under some conditions in the range of strongly overlapping compound resonances by a new phenomenon of time resonances (explosions). These time resonances (explosions) correspond to the formation of a few highly-excited, non-exponentially decaying nuclear clots (partial compound nuclei consisting of certain small groups of target and projectile nucleons). The proposed approach is an alternative way of analyzing experimental data compared with the majority of known descriptions (for instance, fireball models). This is a new and more general version of the time-evolution approach compared with the Izumo-Araseki time compound-nucleus model.

Keywords

EN

Time resonance (explosion); compound-clot decay; high-energy nuclear reaction; 25.90.+k; 03.65.Nk

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 223-240

Dates

published

1 - 6 - 2006

online

1 - 6 - 2006

Contributors

author

Vladislav Olkhovsky

• Institute for Nuclear Research, National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine

author

Marina Dolinska

• Institute for Nuclear Research, National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine

author

Sergey Omelchenko

• Institute for Nuclear Research, National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-006-0008-z