Production of light and intermediate mass fragments using various clusterization algorithms

TL;DR

This paper compares various clusterization algorithms (MST, MSTP, MSTB) in simulating nuclear reactions, focusing on their efficiency in early fragment identification at 50 MeV/nucleon.

Contribution

It introduces a comparative analysis of clusterization algorithms in nuclear reaction simulations, highlighting their differences in fragment detection timing.

Findings

MSTB and MSTP identify free nucleons earlier than MST.

Binding energy and momentum cuts improve fragment identification.

MST takes longer to detect stable fragments.

Abstract

For the present analysis we simulate the reaction 129Xe 54+197Au79 at E=50 MeV/nucleon respectively[3]. This reaction is simulated at different impact parameters using hard equation of state. The stored phase space is then analyzed by using MST, MSTP and MSTB algorithms. MSTB and MSTP identifies the free nucleons as early as possible. In the two cases, a check in the form of binding energy and momentum cut helps to identify the fragments quite early. The normal MST takes quite a long time to identify the stable fragments which are residual of excited fragments.