INDRA collaboration

PHYSICAL REVIEW C, VOLUME 67, 064603 (2003)

Preprint on arXiv

The fragmentation of a quasiprojectile is studied with the INDRA multidetector for different colliding systems and incident energies in the Fermi energy range. Different experimental observations show that a large part of the fragmentation is not compatible with the statistical fragmentation of a fully equilibrated nucleus. The study of internal correlations is a powerful tool, especially to evidence entrance channel effects. These effects have to be included in the theoretical descriptions of nuclear multifragmentation.