Two independent measurements of cross sections for the 19F+93Nb dissipative heavy-ion collision (DHIC) have been performed at incident energies from 100 to 108 MeV in steps of 250 keV. Two independently prepared targets were used respectively with all other experimental conditions being identical in both experiments. The data indicate non-reproducibility of the non-self-averaging oscillation yields in the two measurements. The statistical analysis of this non-reproducibility supports recent theoretical predictions of spontaneous coherence, slow phase randomization and extreme sensitivity in highly excited quantum many-body systems.
The measurement of excitation functions for the strongly dissipative collision with the reaction system of ^19F+^27Al has been carried out at the China Institute of Atoraic Energy, Beijing. The ^19F^8+ beam was extracted from the HI-13 tandem accelerator. The beam incident energies were varied from 110 to 118.75 MeV in steps of 250 keV. The self-supporting ^27A1 target foil with the thickness of 60μg/cm^2 was used. The detector arrangement is shown in Fig.1.
