Isospin effects on fragment production

TL;DR

This paper investigates how isospin influences fragment production in nuclear reactions using IQMD simulations, highlighting neutron-rich nuclei as ideal for studying isospin effects across different collision geometries.

Contribution

The study provides a systematic theoretical analysis of isospin effects on fragment production using IQMD and MST algorithms, focusing on specific Sn isotope reactions.

Findings

Neutron-rich nuclei are more suitable for studying isospin effects.

Fragment production varies with collision geometry.

Isospin effects are more pronounced in neutron-rich systems.

Abstract

To understand the isospin effects in nearly symmetric nuclear matter we performed a complete systematical theoretical study within an Isospin dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamical Model (IQMD) and using Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm. Simulations are carried out for the reactions $_{124}Sn^{50}+_{124}Sn^{50}$ and $_{107}Sn^{50}+_{124}Sn^{50}$. The collision geometry is varied from central to peripheral. We find that neutron rich colliding nuclei are better candidate to study the isospin effects