The conversion of kinetic energy into target-like fragment excitation and orbital angular momentum into fragment spin has been studied in the reaction 333 MeV Si with ' 'Ta. The light charged particles were detected in a small, highly segmented, 4m phoswich detector system placed in the spin spectrometer, a 4m NaI array which served as a neutron and gamma detector. Multiplicities of light charg...

Calculations of the breakup of B and Be are performed with the aim of analyzing their sensitivity to the projectile description. Several potentials adjusted on the same experimental data are used for each projectile. The results vary significantly with the potential choice, and this sensitivity differs from one projectile to the other. In the B case, the breakup cross section is approximately s...

Direct or Eley-Rideal reactions between energetic N^{+} and O^{+} projectiles and O atoms, adsorbed onto Pt and Pd surfaces, are studied experimentally at incidence energies between 20 and 200 eV. The exit energies of the diatomic molecular products NO and O_{2} depend linearly on the incidence energy of the corresponding projectiles. A reaction mechanism is proposed, where the incident project...

Static and dynamic stability are the most important phenomena for stable flight atmospheric motion of spin and fin stabilized projectiles. If the aerodynamic forces and moments and the initial conditions are accurately known, an essentially exact simulation of the projectile’s synthesized pitching and yawing motion can be readily obtained by numerical methods. A modified trajectory linear theor...

The fire-control solution is an important element of any modern weapon system, providing precise aiming of the gun to enable highly accurate projectile impact. To be practical, the fire-control solution must be computed rapidly and reliably while simultaneously including all pertinent physical effects that can alter the trajectory and impact point. Current fire-control solutions account for the...

The production of intermediate mass fragments ~IMF’s! from the four reactions 55A MeV Xe 1 Sn is studied with an experimental apparatus which is highly efficient for the detection of both charged particles and neutrons. The IMF’s are more localized in the midvelocity region than are the light charged particles, and the detected multiplicity of IMF’s depends linearly on the charge lost from the ...