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PHYSICAL REVIEW C 67, 024608 2003 Influence of a momentum dependent interaction on the isospin dependence of fragmentation and dissipation in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions Jian-Ye Liu, 1,2,3 Wen-Jun Guo,2 Yong Zhong Xing,2,4 Wei Zou,1,2 and Xi-Guo Lee1,2 1Center of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China 2Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 31, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China 3Department of Chemistry and Physics, P.O. Box 419, Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas 72467-0419 4Department of Physics, Tianshui Normal College, Gansu Tianshui 741000, People’s Republic of China Received 2 April 2002; published 27 February 2003 We studied the influence of a momentum dependent interaction in the context of isospin effects on frag- mentation and dissipation in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions by using an isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics model. It is shown that nuclear stopping, the number of nucleons emitted, and the mul- tiplicity of intermediate mass fragments are larger with a momentum dependent interaction than without. In particular, the differences for these observables, when using an isospin dependent in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section versus an isospin independent one, are also larger at high energies for a momentum dependent interaction than without one. Therefore, momentum dependence enhances the sensitivities of those observables to the isospin effect of the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section towards high beam energies.