SECTION II: HEAVY ION REACTIONS

 

Experimental Determination of the Symmetry Energy of a Low Density Nuclear Gas ....................................................................II-1
S. Kowalski, J.B. Natowitz, S. Shlomo, R. Wada, K. Hagel, J.S. Wang, T. Keutgen, T. Materna, Z. Chen, Y. Ma, L. Qin, A.S. Botvina, M. Cinausero, Y. El Masri, D. Fabris, M. Lunardon, Z. Majka, S. Moretto, G. Nebbia, S. Presente, G. Prete, V. Rizzi, G. Viesti, and A. Ono

Refining Reaction Dynamics in Fermi Energy Heavy Ion Reactions ................................................................................................II-3
R. Wada, Z. Chen, T. Keutgen, K. Hagel, J. Wang, L. May, M. Codrington, L. Qin, J. B. Natowitz, T. Materna, S. Kowalski, and P.K. Sahu

Isoscaling in Central Heavy Ion Collisions at Intermediate Energy ..................................................................................................II-6
Z. Chen, R. Wada, T. Keutgen, K. Hagel, J. Wang, L. May, M. Codrington, L. Qin, J.B. Natowitz, T. Materna, S. Kowalski, and P.K. Sahu

Exploring New Ways to Produce Heavy and Superheavy Nuclei with BigSol ...................................................................................II-8
T. Materna, Z. Chen, K. Hagel, J.B. Natowitz, L. Qin, P.K. Sahu, R. Wada, D. Fabris, M. Lunardon, M. Morando, S. Moretto, G. Nebbia, S. Pesente, V. Rizzi, G. Viesti, V. Bocci, M. Barbui, A. Andrighetto, M. Cinausero, G. Prete, Z. Majka, A. Wieloch and S. Kowalski

Kinematical Simulation of In-Flight Alpha and Fission Decay of Heavy Nuclei in Super-Heavy Mass Region .............................II-10
P.K. Sahu, J.B. Natowitz, R. Wada, K. Hagel, T. Materna, and Z. Chen

Reaction Tomography at 47 AMeV .....................................................................................................................................................II-12
L.J. Qin, R. Wada, K. Hagel, J.B. Natowitz, J.S. Wang, Y. Ma, T. Materna, T. Keutgen, Z. Chen, and P.K. Sahu

Progress in BRAHMS ..........................................................................................................................................................................II-15
K. Hagel, R. Wada, T. Materna, S. Kowalski, J.B. Natowitz, and the BRAHMS Collaboration

NIMROD Upgrade ..............................................................................................................................................................................II-17
S. Wuenschel, K. Hagel, R. Wada, L. May, F.P. Abbegglen, B. Olsen, G.J. Derrig, S.N. Soisson, B.C. Stein, J.B. Natowitz, and S.J. Yennello

Current Status of the FAUST Array ...................................................................................................................................................II-19
B.C. Stein, S.N. Soisson, A.L. Keksis, S. Wuenschel, D.V. Shetty, G.A. Souliotis, and S.J. Yennello

Studying the Evolution of the Nuclear Symmetry Energy of Hot Fragments from the Compound Nucleus Regime
towards Bulk Multifragmentation
.......................................................................................................................................................II-21
G.A. Souliotis, A.S. Botvina , D.V. Shetty, A.L. Keksis, M.Jandel, M. Veselsky, and S. J. Yennello

A Possible Dual-Lateral Upgrade to the FAUST Detector Array ....................................................................................................II-23
S.N. Soisson, B.C. Stein, M. Jandel, G.A. Souliotis, D.V. Shetty, A.L Keksis, S. Wuenschel, and S.J. Yennello

Excitation Energy Evolution of the Density in Nuclear Mmultifragmentation ...............................................................................II-25
D.V. Shetty, S.J. Yennello, G.A. Souliotis, A.L. Keksis, S.N. Soisson, B.C. Stein, and S. Wuenschel

Nuclear Expansion and Symmetry Energy at Low Density .............................................................................................................II-27
D.V. Shetty, S.J. Yennello, G.A. Souliotis, A.L. Keksis, S.N. Soisson, B.C. Stein, and S. Wuenschel

Symmetry Energy and Multifragmentation of 40Ar, 40Ca + 58Fe, 58Ni Reactions at 25, 33, 45 and 53 MeV/nucleon .................II-29
D.V. Shetty, J. Iglio, S.J. Yennello, G.A. Souliotis, M. Jandel, A.L. Keksis, S.N. Soisson, B.C. Stein, S. Wuenschel and A.S. Botvina

Isospin Distillation and the Reduced Nucleon Densities in 40Ar, 40Ca + 58Fe, 58Ni
Reactions at 25, 33, 45 and 53 MeV/nucleon ...................................................................................................................................II-31
D.V. Shetty, J. Iglio, S.J. Yennello, G.A. Souliotis, M. Jandel, A.L. Keksis, S.N. Soisson, B.C. Stein, S. Wuenschel and A.S. Botvina

Isoscaling Properties of the Fragments Pproduced in Multifragmentation of
40Ar, 40Ca + 58Fe, 58Ni Reactions at 25, 33, 45 and 53 MeV/nucleon
............................................................................................II-32
D.V. Shetty, J. Iglio, S.J. Yennello, G.A. Souliotis, M. Jandel, A.L. Keksis, S.N. Soisson, B.C. Stein, S. Wuenschel and A.S. Botvina

Constraining the Density Dependence of the Symmetry energy in the Nuclear Equation of State .............................................II-34
D.V. Shetty, S.J. Yennello, and G.A. Souliotis

Mapping the Symmetry Energy Using Reconstructed Quasiprojectile Sources ..........................................................................II-36
A.L. Keksis, M. Veselsky, G.A. Souliotis, D.V. Shetty, M. Jandel, E. Bell, A. Ruangma, E.M. Winchester, J. Garey, S. Parketon,
C. Richers, and S.J. Yennello