Abstract

Exclusive measurements of charged products and neutrons were performed for the reactions 197Au + (29 MeV/u) 208Pb and 209Bi + (28.2 MeV/u) 136Xe. The multiplicities of neutrons and charged particles are found to provide independent measures of the collision impact parameter with different sensitivities. Characteristic correlations observed between massive products and light particles suggest the dominance of the damped-reaction mechanism in the Fermi energy domain. For central collisions, project-like fragments are no longer observed, and a considerable fraction of the mass of the system is found disassembled into light particles and clusters.

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