New Evidence for "Hot Spots" from Subthreshold Pions
- 25 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 52 (26), 2340-2343
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.2340
Abstract
The excitation functions and energy distribution of the reaction for beam energies of several tens of megaelectronvolts per nucleon are analyzed. Statistical-decay theory yields good agreement with the data under the assumption that a hot spot is formed. Its size is determined from the velocity of the emitting source. The cross section for forming a hot spot shows a systematic behavior which fits well with the systematics recently observed in fragmentation reactions.
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