Scaling law for the partitioning of energy in fragmenting multicharged carbon clusters.
The complete fragmentation of highly excited and multicharged C(n)(q+) clusters (n=5-10; q=2-4), produced in high velocity collisions of C(n)(+) with atoms, has been measured. Multiplicity distributions are presented and used to deduce, within a statistical framework, the partitioning of energy between the fragments' production and fragments' kinetic energy. This partitioning is found to scale as the charge over mass ratio of the cluster.
Chabot
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Institut de Physique Nucléaire, IN2P3-CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France.
Mezdari
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Béroff
K
K
Martinet
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Hervieux
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