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Using the quantum molecular dynamics approach we have started to analyze the results of the recent INDRA experiments at GSI experiments. For the first time we could identify a midrapidity source in which fragments are formed from a almost identical fraction of projectile and target nucleons. In smaller systems we have not found this source. Nevertheless the fragment spectra at small and large angles are completely determined by the dynamics. We discuss how fragments are formed in the different regions of phase space and what they tell us about the reaction mechanism.
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Zbiri, K., Aichelin, J. Origin of Fragments in Multifragmentation Reactions. Acta Physica Hungarica 24, 99–110 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1556/APH.24.2005.1-4.15
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