Fragmentation products with nonstatistical excited-state populations.

Relative populations of particle-unbound states were measured for /sup 10/B nuclei emitted behind the grazing angle for the /sup 14/N+/sup nat/Ag reaction at E/A = 35 MeV. The populations of states decaying by proton and ..cap alpha..-particle emission are inconsistent with purely statistical distributions, indicating that the intrinsic degrees of freedom of the fragmenting system may not be fully equilibrated at the instant the fragment separates from the rest of the system.