Eur. Phys. J. A (2012) 48: 19
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12019-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Effect of scaled Gaussian width (SGW) on fragment flow and multifragmentation in heavy-ion collisions

School of Physics and Materials Science, Thapar University, Patiala-147004, Punjab, India

^* e-mail: suneel.kumar@thapar.edu

Received: 31 October 2011
Revised: 16 January 2012
Accepted: 16 January 2012
Published online: 17 February 2012

Abstract

We have analyzed the role of interaction range on multifragmentation within the isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamic (IQMD) model. We find that the effect of width of Gaussian wave packet associated with a nucleon depends on the mass of the colliding system. For a given set of input parameters, we find that width has a sizable effect. At the same time, we know that a different set of parameters can influence the reaction dynamics drastically. Hence, in our opinion it may not be possible to pin down the width to a very narrow level. A systematic study of mass effect ( ¹⁹⁷Au, ¹²⁴La, ¹²⁴Sn, ¹⁰⁷Sn in the breakup of a projectile spectator at intermediate energies has been performed. We also studied the disapperance of flow which demonstrates the effect of the scaled Gaussian width (SGW). Our studies shows that SGW influences the reaction dynamics.