Eur. Phys. J. A (2012) 48: 3
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12003-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Study of participant-spectator matter, thermalization and other related phenomena for neutron-rich colliding pair

Department of Physics, Panjab University, 160014, Chandigarh, India

^* e-mail: sakshigautm@gmail.com

Received: 18 October 2011
Revised: 8 November 2011
Accepted: 23 December 2011
Published online: 23 January 2012

Abstract

We study the participant-spectator matter, density and temperature reached in heavy-ion reactions of neutron-rich systems having N/Z ratio varying from 1.0 to 2.0 at 50 and 250MeV/nucleon. Our results show a weak dependence of these quantities on the neutron content of the colliding systems. We also shed light on the role of neutron content on the thermalization achieved in a reaction.