Nuclide distributions for Fe-like fragments in the 136Xe + 56Fe reaction

Abstract

The nuclide distributions of Fe-like reaction products from the reaction 5.9 MeV/u 136Xe on. 56Fe were measured as a function of total kinetic energy loss at a laboratory angle of 55°. The first and second moments of N, Z and A were obtained in addition to the correlation coefficients and the isobaric variances. We compare these results for the Fe-like fragment to those implied by previous measurements of the secondary distribution of the Xe-like fragment. We incorporate the effects of particle evaporation on both the light and heavy complementary primary distributions. There is overall qualitative agreement, but the variances are somewhat smaller than those obtained previously even after correction for particle evaporation. Evaporation calculations are also performed on the primary distributions predicted by a nucleon exchange model, and yield distributions in good agreement with the present experimental data.