  The recoil properties of fragments produced by the interaction of 4.4 GeV
deuteron with 197Au target have been studied. New experimental data on recoil
properties for 90 nuclei, varying from 24Na to 198Au, were obtained. The
technique applied was the {thick-target thick-catcher} and induced activity
method. The deuteron beam was obtained from the Nuclotron of the Laboratory of
High Energies (LHE), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna. The
experimental data were analyzed on the basis of the standard two-step vector
model formalism. From this analysis we could find evidence to support the
existence of several different mechanisms, such as spallation, fission and
fragmentation, in the reaction investigated. Fission contributed appreciably to
the formation of products in the mass region of 65 < A < 120. The kinematic
characteristics of residual nuclei formed in the present deuteron-induced
reaction have been compared to those from proton-induced reactions with gold
target.
