Orbital deflection of fragments produced through peripheral reactions of heavy nuclei at 290 MeV/nucleon

The orbital deflection phenomenon of reaction products formed through peripheral reactions of heavy nuclei at intermediate energy is studied to examine the contributions of the Coulomb potential and nuclear potential that act between the projectile and target nuclei. The angular distributions of fragments produced in 1-nucleon removal and exchange reactions of 40Ar and 84Kr beams with C, Al, Nb, Tb, and Au targets at 290 MeV/nucleon were observed. A significant deflection effect was successfully identified in observed angular distributions at energies as low as Ei=100 MeV/nucleon. The deflection effect increases with the atomic number of the target nuclei. The observed deflection effect is consistently explainable using the classical deflection angle, which is obtained with respect to a simple framework of the Coulomb potential and the real part of the energy-dependent nuclear potential, and the characteristic impact parameter between the projectile and target nuclei.