Reducibility and Thermal Scaling of Charge Distributions in Multifragmentation

A strong thermal signature is found in the charge distributions associated with multifragmentation from the reaction ³⁶Ar+¹⁹⁷Au at E/A0ex0ex=0ex0ex110 MeV. The n-fold charge distributions are reducible to the onefold charge distributions through a simple scaling that is dictated by fold number and charge conservation.