@article {033_Polar, title = {Nuclear spin polarization following intermediate-energy heavy-ion reactions}, journal = {Phys. Rev. C}, volume = {76}, number = {5}, year = {2007}, pages = {{\textendash}}, address = {Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece}, abstract = {Intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions can produce a spin polarization of the projectile-like species. Spin polarization has been observed for both nucleon removal and nucleon pickup processes. Qualitative agreement with measured spin polarization as a function of the momentum of the projectile-like fragment is found in a kinematic model that considers conservation of linear and angular momentum and assumes peripheral interactions between the fast projectile and target. Better quantitative agreement was reached by including more realistic angular distributions and deorientation caused by ?-ray emission and by correcting for the out-of-plane acceptance. The newly introduced corrections were found to apply to both nucleon removal and nucleon pickup processes. {\textcopyright} 2007 The American Physical Society.}, issn = {05562813 (ISSN)}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.76.054608}, author = {Groh, D.E. and Pinter, J.S. and Mantica, P.F. and Mertzimekis, T. J. and Stuchbery, A.E. and Khoa, D.T.} }