Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, D-6100, Darmstadt, West Germany
Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, D-6900, Heidelberg, West Germany
Abstract:
An ansatz representing a generalisation of the one-body recoil formula is proposed on the basis of the total kinetic energy loss versus σZ2 correlation systematics observed in collisions between very heavy nuclei. It is shown that such correlations are surprisingly sensitive to the shell structure of the colliding nuclei. The mechanism of energy dissipation appears also to be strongly influenced by the structure effects.