title: Scaling law for the partitioning of energy in fragmenting multicharged carbon clusters.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Physique Nucléaire, IN2P3-CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chabot
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mezdari
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Béroff
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martinet
authors.forename: P-A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Hervieux