Probing the nuclear symmetry energy with heavy-ion collisions

M Di Toro, V Baran, M Colonna… - Journal of Physics G …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Heavy ion collisions (HICs) represent a unique tool to probe the in-medium nuclear
interaction in regions away from saturation. In this review we present a selection of new …

Experimental effects of dynamics and thermodynamics in nuclear reactions on the symmetry energy as seen by the CHIMERA 4 detector

E De Filippo, A Pagano - The European Physical Journal A, 2014 - Springer
Heavy-ion collisions have been widely used in the last decade to constrain the
parameterizations of the symmetry energy term of the nuclear equation of state (EOS) for …

Correlations between emission timescale of fragments and isospin dynamics in Sn+Ni and Sn+Ni reactions at 35 MeV

E De Filippo, A Pagano, P Russotto, F Amorini… - Physical Review C …, 2012 - APS
We present a new experimental method to correlate the isotopic composition of intermediate
mass fragments (IMF) emitted at midrapidity in semiperipheral collisions with the emission …

Isospin transport at Fermi energies

V Baran, M Colonna, MD Toro, M Zielinska-Pfabé… - Physical Review C …, 2005 - APS
In this paper we investigate isospin transport mechanisms in semiperipheral collisions at
Fermi energies. The effects of the formation of a low density region (neck) between the two …

Influence of fast emissions and statistical de-excitation on the isospin transport ratio

A Camaiani, S Piantelli, A Ono, G Casini, B Borderie… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Isospin transport ratio is a powerful method to estimate the neutron-proton (np) equilibration
in heavy-ion collisions, and extensively used to obtain information on the asy-stiffness of the …

Studies of Nuclear Reactions and Time Scale with the 4π Detector CHIMERA

A Pagano - Nuclear Physics News, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
With the discovery, in the early 1980s, of multifragmentation processes in heavy-ion induced
nuclear reactions at medium energies, the design of multidetector systems capable of …

Isospin transport in Kr+Sn collisions at Fermi energies

S Barlini, S Piantelli, G Casini, PR Maurenzig… - Physical Review C …, 2013 - APS
Isotopically resolved fragments with Z≲ 20 have been studied with a high-resolution
telescope in a test run for the FAZIA Collaboration. The fragments were produced by the …

Particle gamma correlations in 12C measured with the CsI (Tl) based detector array CHIMERA

G Cardella, L Acosta, F Amorini, L Auditore… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The gamma decay of the first excited 4.44 MeV 2+ level of 12 C, populated by inelastic
scattering of proton and 16 O beams at various energies was studied in order to test γ-ray …

Neck dynamics

M Di Toro, A Olmi, R Roy - … and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of …, 2006 - Springer
Intermediate-energy heavy-ion reactions produce a mid-rapidity region or neck, mostly in the
semiperipheral collisions. Brief theory and experiment surveys are presented. General …

Isospin dynamics in peripheral heavy ion collisions at Fermi energies

J Rizzo, M Colonna, V Baran, M Di Toro, HH Wolter… - Nuclear Physics A, 2008 - Elsevier
We present a detailed study of isospin dynamics in peripheral collisions at Fermi energies.
We consider symmetric and mixed collisions of 124,112 Sn isotopes at 35 and 50A MeV to …