Structure in the energy spectra of the fragments produced in damped heavy-ion reactions

Abstract
Structure in the energy spectra of specific final fragments produced in symmetric heavy-ion damped collisions is shown to correlate with statistical evaporation processes from primary fragments. The calculations are applied and described for Ca41 produced by the Ca40 + Ca40 reaction at a bombarding energy of 400 MeV. The calculated energy spectrum has structure at the same energies as the experimental spectrum.