The influence of Multi-Step Sequential Decay on Isoscaling and Fragment Isospin Distribution in GEMINI Simulation

Abstract

Extensive calculations on isoscaling behavior with the sequential-decay model GEMINI are performed for the mediate-heavy nuclei in the mass range 𝐴 = 110 and at excitation energies of up to 3 MeV per nucleon. Isoscaling can still be observed after entire-step decays are considered for the light products as in the only first-step decay process case. Comparison between the products after the first-step decay and the ones after entire-step decay demonstrates that multi-step secondary sequential decay strongly influences the isoscaling parameters 𝛼, 𝛽 as well as the fragment isospin distribution. After entire-step decays, the isoscaling parameters 𝛼 and 𝛽 are decreased and the fragment isospin distribution can better reproduce the isospin distribution shape as the experimental data.