Reducibility and Thermal Scaling of Charge Distributions in Multifragmentation

Abstract

A strong thermal signature is found in the charge distributions associated with multifragmentation from the reaction ${}^{36}\mathrm{Ar}{+}^{197}\mathrm{Au}$ at $E/A\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}110$ MeV. The $n$-fold charge distributions are reducible to the onefold charge distributions through a simple scaling that is dictated by fold number and charge conservation.