M. Morjean

TL;DR: In this article, events with fragment multiplicities up to eight have been detected with a large detector array in Pb + Au reactions at 29 MeV/u and all collisions show a binary character irrespective of a possible further disassembly of the two highly excited primary partners.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the occurrence of a saturation of the thermal energy deposited in the system around 650 MeV, corresponding to a constant internal temperature close to 5 MeV.

TL;DR: Fission times of uranium-like nuclei with excitation energies up to about 250 MeV have been inferred from blocking effects in a single crystal as mentioned in this paper, and they are found longer by at least 1 order of magnitude than the ones obtained by other techniques, a hint for very broad fission time distributions.

TL;DR: In this article, a broad distribution of excitation energies with 10% of the events exceeding 500 MeV was obtained for a thermalized nucleus, which would translate into temperatures exceeding 5 MeV.

TL;DR: The annihilation of energetic antiprotons is exploited to deposit maximum thermal excitation in massive nuclei (Cu, Ho, Au, and U) while minimizing the contribution from collective excitation such as rotation, shape distortion, and compression.