TY - JOUR A1 - Jacak, Barbara V. A1 - Westfall, Gary D. A1 - Gelbke, Claus-Konrad A1 - Harwood, L. H. A1 - Lynch, William G. A1 - Scott, D. K. A1 - Stöcker, Horst A1 - Tsang, M. B. A1 - Symons, Timothy James MacNeil T1 - Measurement of complex fragments and clues to the entropy production from 42-137-MeV/nucleon Ar + Au T2 - Physical review letters N2 - Intermediate-rapidity fragments with A=1-14 emitted from 42-137-MeV/nucleon Ar + Au have been measured. Evidence is presented that these fragments arise from a common moving source. Entropy values are extracted from the mass distributions by use of quantum statistical and Hauser-Feshbach theories. The extracted entropy values of S/A≈2-2.4 are much smaller than the values expected from measured deuteron-to-proton ratios, but are still considerably higher than theoretically predicted values. Y1 - 2006 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2623 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-27812 UR - http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v51/p1846 VL - 51 IS - 20 SP - 1846 EP - 1849 ER -