In medium fragment break-up of projectile in 58Ar+36Ni central collisions

Abstract

Latest results concerning the study of central collisions in 36Ar+58Ni reactions, carried out by using the INDRA 4π detector at the GANIL are presented. Reaction mechanisms involved in very central collisions for such asymmetric system and their evolution as function of incident energy are studied, from 32 to 95 AMeV, suggesting an in-medium “break-up” process of the projectile where the presence of nuclear transparency plays an important role. Such a process, leading to forward emission of fragments and lights particles in the laboratory frame, is found to be more and more relevant at high energies, when the contribution from quasi-fusion processes vanishes. Evidences of emissions from an excited quasi-target (QT*), moving along the beam direction with velocity rising with incident energy under the dragging effect of the in-medium “crumbling” of the projectile are highlighted.