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Phys. Rev. C 51, 3489–3491 (1995)

Space-time ambiguity of two- and three-fragment reduced velocity correlation functions

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T. Glasmacher, L. Phair, D. R. Bowman, C. K. Gelbke, W. G. Gong, Y. D. Kim, M. A. Lisa, W. G. Lynch, G. F. Peaslee, R. T. de Souza, M. B. Tsang, and F. Zhu
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Received 31 October 1994; published in the issue dated June 1995

Reduced-velocity correlation functions between two and three intermediate mass fragments are compared for central 36Ar+197Ar collisions at E/A=50 MeV. Previously published N-body Coulomb-trajectory calculations, capable of reproducing the measured two-fragment reduced velocity-correlation function, describe the measured three-fragment correlation function equally well. Moreover, ambiguities between source size and lifetime observed in the analysis of two-fragment correlations remain unresolved in the three-fragment correlation function.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.51.3489
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.51.3489
PACS:
25.70.Pq