Particle emission time sequence in intermediate energy heavy ion reactions Original Research Article

The CHIC Collaboration has performed a series of simultaneous pp, np and nn fermion interferometry experiments in order to study the space-time evolution of the emission sources in intermediate energy heavy ion reactions. Furthermore, when correlations of non-identical particles are available, additional model independent information on the emission chronology of the particles is obtained. In this contribution, after reviewing the method to determine the order of emission of non-identical particles, we discuss the emission chronology of neutrons and protons from the E/A = 45 MeV 58Ni + 27Al reaction and from the E/A = 60 MeV 36Ar + 27Al reaction, shown here for the first time.