Abstract
Neutrons emitted in the deep inelastic collisions of /sup 86/Kr on /sup 166/Er at 11.9 MeV/nucleon, were measured in coincidence with both fragments. The velocity and angular distributions of the neutrons cannot be accounted for by assuming only isotropic evaporation from the fully accelerated fragments. The experimental analysis shows the presence of a preequilibrium component of neutrons emitted mainly on the side of the light fragments in quasi-elastic events, and on the side of the heavy fragments in strongly damped events. The qualitative features of the data are reproduced by a simple model which assumes that approx.10% of the neutrons are knocked out at an early stage of the collision along the direction of the nuclear motion. Except for the preequilibrium component the neutron multiplicities are in good agreement with the predictions of evaporation model calculations.
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