Constraining Hot Sources in Central Heavy-ion Collisions Below 20 MeV/$u$

Pre-equilibrium emissions affect the production of excited systems in nuclear reactions, thus modifying their properties which enter as input parameters in the comparison with statistical models. In this contribution, we discuss this subject referring to recent results from experiments performed at Legnaro National Laboratories (Italy) with the GARFIELD apparatus complemented with other detectors. ispartof: Acta Physica Polonica B vol:48 issue:3 pages:635-639 ispartof: location:Zakopane: POLAND status: published