Phase space analysis of fragmentation and role of mass asymmetry

Varinderjit Kaur, Suneel Kumar

Published 2011-09-19, updated 2011-12-13Version 2

Based on the quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) picture, we aim to understand heavy-ion collisions in terms of participant spectator matter leading to various fragments of different sizes. The study is performed for symmetric as well as asymmetric reaction at E = 200 MeV/nucleon for central collisions. Our results highlight the importance of fragmentation criterion in terms of light mass fargments which are a part of participant matter and intermediate mass fragments which are coming from the spectator region.