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Determination of Critical Exponents in Nuclear Systems

Nuclear Experiment 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Signatures of critical behaviour in nuclear fragmentation are often based on arguments from percolation theory. We demonstrate with general thermodynamic considerations and studies of the Ising model that the reliance on percolation as a reference model bears the risk of missing parts of the essential physics.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/9607002,
  title  = {Determination of Critical Exponents in Nuclear Systems},
  author = {W. F. J. Mueller and ALADIN collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/9607002},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, TeX with 1 included figure; Proceedings of the 1st Catania Relativistic Ion Studies: Critical Phenomena and Collective Observables, Acicastello, May 27-31, 1996, to be published by World Scientific Publ. Co.; also available from http://www-kp3.gsi.de/www/kp3/aladin_publications.html