On the survey of nuclei and hypernuclei in multifragmentation

Abstract

Multifragmentation reactions are dominating processes for the decomposition of highly excited nuclei leading to the fragment production in heavy-ion collisions. In high energy reactions strange particles are abundantly produced. We present a novel development of the Statistical multifragmentation model (SMM), namely, its generalization for the hyper-matter which is formed after the hyperon capture. This way, it is possible to describe its disintegration into normal and hyper-nuclei. Some properties of hyper-nuclei and their binding energies can be determined from the comparison of the isotope yields. The main focus of this method is to investigate strange and multi-strange hypernuclei since their properties are not easy to measure in traditional hyper-nuclei experiments.