Strong enhancement of extremely energetic proton production in central heavy ion collisions at intermediate energy.
/ Authors
P. Sapienza, R. Coniglione, M. Colonna, E. Migneco, C. Agodi, R. Alba, G. Bellia, A. Del Zoppo, P. Finocchiaro, V. Greco
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K. Loukachine, C. Maiolino, P. Piattelli, D. Santonocito, P. Ventura, Y. Blumenfeld, M. Bruno, N. Colonna, M. D'Agostino, L. Fabbietti, M. L. Fiandri, F. Gramegna, I. Iori, G. Margagliotti, P. Mastinu, P. Milazzo, A. Moroni, R. Rui, J. Scarpaci, G. Vannini
/ Abstract
The energetic proton emission has been investigated as a function of the reaction centrality for the system (58)Ni + (58)Ni at 30A MeV. Extremely energetic protons (E(NN)(p) > or = 130 MeV) were measured and their multiplicity is found to increase almost quadratically with the number of participant nucleons, thus indicating the onset of a mechanism beyond one- and two-body dynamics.
Journal: Physical review letters