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Dynamics and thermodynamics of fragment emission from excited sources

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the process of fragmentation of highly excited Lennard-Jones drops by introducing the concept of emitted fragments (clusters recognizable in configuration space which live more than a minimum lifetime). We focus on the dynamics and thermodynamics of the emitted sources, and show, among other things, that this kind of process can not be cast into a sequential or simultaneous one, and how a local equilibrium scenario comes up, allowing us to define and explore a local temperature, which turns out to be a strongly time-dependent quantity.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0412067,
  title  = {Dynamics and thermodynamics of fragment emission from excited sources},
  author = {M. J. Ison and C. O. Dorso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0412067},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 14 figures