Contemporary presence of dynamical and statistical production of intermediate mass fragments in midperipheral ⁵⁸Ni + ⁵⁸Ni collisions at 30 MeV/nucleon

The ⁵⁸Ni + ⁵⁸Ni reaction at 30 MeV/nucleon has been experimentally investigated at the Superconducting Cyclotron of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud. In midperipheral collisions the production of massive fragments (4 ≤ Z ≤ 12), consistent with the statistical fragmentation of the projectile-like residue and the dynamical formation of a neck, joining projectile-like and target-like residues, has been observed. The fragments coming from these different processes differ both in charge distribution and isotopic composition. In particular it is shown that these mechanisms leading to fragment production act contemporarily inside the same event.