EVIDENCE FOR STATISTICAL EQUILIBRIUM OF THE FRAGMENT ISOBARIC DISTRIBUTIONS IN STRONGLY DAMPED COLLISIONS OF KR-86 WITH ER-166

Primary (pre-evaporation) fragment mass distributions and fragment charge distributions have been measured for deep inelastic collisions of Kr86 with Er166 at Ec.m.∼400 MeV. It is shown that the relations between the lower moments of the above fragment distributions are consistent with the formation of a statistically equilibrated intermediate dinuclear complex over a wide range of kinetic-energy damping. © 1979 The American Physical Society.