Analysis of energy loss versus fragment charge distributions for the ¹³⁶Xe + ²⁰⁹Bi system

Abstract

The available data on the energy loss versus the fragment charge distributions for the reaction ¹³⁶Xe + ²⁰⁹Bi at the three bombarding energies of 940, 1130, and 1422 MeV are analyzed in the framework of the transport model which was modified in an earlier work to include the effects of isospin correlation in the nucleon-exchange process in a consistent manner. The data show satisfactory agreement with the model predictions, nearly independent of the assumptions made about the isospin correlations in the exchange process, bringing out in an unambiguous way the dominant role of the nucleon-exchange process in the energy loss.