Formation and decay of hot nuclei have been studied in Zn-64 + Ti-nat collisions between 35 and 79 MeV/nucleon. The mass and excitation energy of excited quasiprojectiles are reconstructed from the kinematical characteristics of their decay products. In central collisions, excitation energies larger than 10 MeV/nucleon are reached. Comparisons with theoretical predictions indicate that a fraction of the excitation energy is associated with an isotropic radial flow.
Steckmeyer, JC., El Masri, Y., & et al. (1996). Properties of very hot nuclei formed in Zn-64+Ti-nat collisions at intermediate energies. Physical Review Letters, 76(26), 4895-4898. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4895 (Original work published 1996)