Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Fragmentation of a nuclear system by tunneling is discussed in a molecular dynamics simulation coupled with an imaginary time method. In this way we obtain information on the fragmenting systems at low densities and temperatures. These conditions cannot be reached normally (i.e., above the barrier) in nucleus-nucleus or nucleon-nucleus collisions. The price to pay is the small probability of fragmentation by tunneling but we obtain observables which can be a clear signature of such phenomena.
Source: Physical Review C
Authors: Toshiki Maruyama, Aldo Bonasera, Satoshi Chiba
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1984580644