70Zn, 64Zn, and 64Ni at 35 MeV/u; 70Zn, 64Zn, and 64Ni

In August 2010, Z. Kohley used the K500 Superconducting Cyclotron at the Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute was used to produce beams of 70Zn, 64Zn, and 64Ni at 35 MeV/u which were collided with 70Zn, 64Zn, and 64Ni self-supporting targets, respectively. The beam intensity for each reaction was chosen such that the dead time was kept below 50% and the silicon detectors of the NIMROD-ISiS array would not be damaged. The NIMROD-ISiS array was chosen for the collection of the experimental data because of the combination of 4π angular coverage and excellent isotopic resolution. Along with the collection of the experimental data, calibration beams (Table II) were used to scatter particles at pre-determined energies into the detectors of the NIMROD-ISiS array producing calibration points. The calibration particles from the different reactions are presented in Table VI. A two-body kinematics code [119] was used to calculate the scattering energy of each particle into the different rings of the array. The results are presented only for rings 2-11 since the backward angle scattering did not have a large enough cross-section for producing calibration points.

Thesis: TRANSVERSE COLLECTIVE FLOW AND EMISSION ORDER OF MID-RAPIDITY FRAGMENTS IN FERMI ENERGY HEAVY ION COLLISIONS

Other papers:

Heavy-ion collisions: Direct and indirect probes of the density and temperature dependence of Esym

Correlations with projectile-like fragments and emission order of light charged particles

Sensitivity of intermediate mass fragment flows to the symmetry energy

Transverse collective flow and mid-rapidity emission of isotopically identified light charged particles

Intermediate mass fragment flow as a probe to the nuclear equation of state

Investigation of transverse collective flow of intermediate mass fragments

Competition between fermions and bosons in nuclear matter at low densities and finite temperatures

Novel technique to extract experimental symmetry free energy information for nuclear matter

Coulomb corrections to experimental temperatures and densities in Fermi-energy heavy ion collisions

Critical scaling of two-component systems from quantum fluctuations

Investigation of the nuclear phase transition using the Landau free-energy approach

Experimental determination of the quasi-projectile mass with measured neutrons

Systematic study of the symmetry energy within the approach of the statistical multifragmentation model

Systematic study of the symmetry energy within the approach of the statistical multifragmentation model