Multifragmentation reactions and properties of hot stellar matter at subnuclear densities
Nuclear Theory
2009-11-11 v1 Astrophysics
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We point out similarity of thermodynamic conditions reached in intermediate energy nuclear collisions and in supernova explosions. We show that a statistical approach, which has been previously applied for nuclear multifragmentation reactions, can be very useful for description of electro-neutral stellar matter. Then properties of hot unstable nuclei extracted from analysis of multifragmentation data can be used for construction of a realistic equation of state of supernova matter.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0506061,
title = {Multifragmentation reactions and properties of hot stellar matter at subnuclear densities},
author = {A. S. Botvina and I. N. Mishustin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0506061},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures