Hypernuclear liquid gas phase transition

The physics of hypernuclei is an important area of study in the regime of high energy heavy ion collisions. As seen in experiments, hyperons (usually Λ) originating from the hot participant region have a extended rapidity distribution and some of these can be absorbed in the much colder spectator parts. Subsequently these spectators may break producing cold and possibly exotic hypernuclei. For theoretical description of this fragmentation process Canonical Thermodynamical model (CTM) has already been extended to three component systems i.e, inclusion of hyperons (Λ) in addition to the protons and the neutrons. In recent days, liquid-gas phase transition or phase coexistence of normal nuclei is also a hot topic in the nuclear physics community. Whether this phase-coexistence will still persist in the presence of hyper-fragments (strange fragments) is the object of investigation in this paper