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Statistical Exploration of Fragmentation Phase Space Source Sizes in Nuclear Multifragmentation

Nuclear Experiment 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

The multiplicity distributions for individual fragment Z values in nuclear multifragmentation are binomial. The extracted maximum value of the multiplicity is found to depend on Z according to m=Z_0/Z, where Z_0 is the source size. This is shown to be a strong indication of statistical coverage of fragmentation phase space. The inferred source sizes coincide with those extracted from the analysis of fixed multiplicity charge distributions.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/9812010,
  title  = {Statistical Exploration of Fragmentation Phase Space Source Sizes in Nuclear Multifragmentation},
  author = {L. G. Moretto and L. Beaulieu and L. Phair and G. J. Wozniak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/9812010},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 revised figures, some revised text

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