ABLA07 - towards a complete description of the decay channels of a nuclear system from spontaneous fission to multifragmentation

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The physics and the technical algorithms of the statistical de-excitation code ABLA07 are documented.

• The new developments of ABLA07 have been guided by the empirical knowledge obtained in a recent experimental campaign on the nuclide distributions measured at GSI, Darmstadt.
• Besides distinct signatures of very asymmetric binary splits, lighter systems show clear features of multifragmentation, while heavy systems reveal the influence of dynamics and microscopic structure on the fission process.
• ABLA07 includes elaborate but efficient descriptions of all these processes, with one set of the model parameters fixed for all systems and all energies.