title: Role of intrinsic width in fragment momentum distributions in heavy ion collisions.
abstract: It is demonstrated that the intrinsic widths incorporating correlations in conjunction with dynamical contributions give better agreement with experiments for collisions in the energy range of 200A MeV to 2A GeV than using only intrinsic widths without correlations.  The sensitivity of the intrinsic width decreases with increasing projectile mass.  A simple recipe for calculating intrinsic width with correlations is presented.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia 23602, USA.
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Tripathi
authors.forename: L W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Townsend
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: D001128:Argon; D006046:Gold; D007477:Ions; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009686:Nuclear Physics; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012542:Scattering, Radiation