Thermodynamics of nuclei in thermal contact
Nuclear Theory
2011-02-28 v1
Abstract
The behaviour of a di-nuclear system in the regime of strong pairing correlations is studied with the methods of statistical mechanics. It is shown that the thermal averaging is strong enough to assure the application of thermodynamical methods to the energy exchange between the two nuclei in contact. In particular, thermal averaging justifies the definition of a nuclear temperature.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1010.0917,
title = {Thermodynamics of nuclei in thermal contact},
author = {Karl-Heinz Schmidt and Beatriz Jurado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0917},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 figure