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Phys. Rev. C 59, 2695 - 2698 (1999)

Size matters: Origin of binomial scaling in nuclear fragmentation experiments

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Wolfgang Bauer and Scott Pratt
Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Received 27 August 1998

The relationship between measured transverse energy, total charge recovered in the detector, and size of the emitting system is investigated. Using only very simple assumptions, we are able to reproduce the observed binomial emission probabilities and their dependences on the transverse energy. Our results show that the observed scaling can arise due to a combination of finite-size effects and detector acceptance effects.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.59.2695
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.59.2695
PACS: 25.70.Pq, 24.10.Pa, 24.60.Ky

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