The liquid to vapor phase transition in excited nuclei
Nuclear Experiment
2014-11-18 v2 Condensed Matter
Abstract
For many years it has been speculated that excited nuclei would undergo a liquid to vapor phase transition. For even longer, it has been known that clusterization in a vapor carries direct information on the liquid- vapor equilibrium according to Fisher's droplet model. Now the thermal component of the 8 GeV/c pion + 197Au multifragmentation data of the ISiS Collaboration is shown to follow the scaling predicted by Fisher's model, thus providing the strongest evidence yet of the liquid to vapor phase transition.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0104013,
title = {The liquid to vapor phase transition in excited nuclei},
author = {J. B. Elliott and L. G. Moretto and L. Phair and G. J. Wozniak and T. Lefort and L. Beaulieu and K. Kwiatkowski and W. -C. Hsi and L. Pienkowski and H. Breuer and R. G. Korteling and R. Laforest and E. Martin and E. Ramakrishnan and D. Rowland and A. Ruangma and V. E. Viola and E. Winchester and S. J. Yennello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0104013},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
four pages, four figures, first two in color (corrected typo in Ref. [26], corrected error in Fig. 4)