Distinctive features of heavy ton dissipative collisions

Examples of experimental angular, charge (mass) and energy distributions of reaction products from damped heavy-ion reactions are presented. Correlations between these observables, as well as with the associated light particles emitted in the deexcitation stage, are illustrated and shown to give important insights into the reaction mechanism of dissipative collisions. Comparisons of experimental results with dynamical transport calculations based on one-body nucleon exchange give strong evidence that stochastic exchange of independent nucleons account for the dominant part of the dissipative and fluctuative phenomena observed in damped reactions.