Eur. Phys. J. A (2000) 8: 373-376
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100500070089

Evidence for a dissipative friction mechanism based on ⁸Be fragments from the interaction of ¹²C with ⁵⁹Co

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Milano, INFN, Sezione di Milano, via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italia
² National Accelerator Centre, Faure, South Africa
³ Schonland Research Centre for Nuclear Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
⁴ Department of Physics, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

^* e-mail: gadioli@mi.infn.it

Received: 27 March 2000
Revised: 15 May 2000
Published online: 15 September 2000

Abstract

It is suggested that the spectra of the ⁸Be ground-state (gs) nuclei produced in the interaction of ¹²C with ⁵⁹Co at incident energies varying from 8.3 to 33.3MeV/amu can be explained by introducing a dissipative friction interaction mechanism preceding projectile break-up.