Measurement of the Energy Division versus Mass in Highly Damped Reactions

Abstract

Nuclear charge, mass, and kinetic energies were measured for fragments from the reactions of ${}_{}{}^{86}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Kr}$+ ${}_{}{}^{124}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Sn}$ at 440- and 720-MeV bombarding energies. From these data it was deduced that the internal excitation energy of the strongly damped products divides proportionally with the mass.