Published December 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Critical temperature for the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition (from multifragmentation and fission)

  • 1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Darmstadt University of Technology, Institut fuer Kernphysik (Germany)
  • 3. H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics (Poland)
  • 4. Institute for Nuclear Research (Russian Federation)
  • 5. University of Iowa (United States)

Description

Critical temperature Tc for the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition is estimated from both the multifragmentation and fission data. In the first case, the critical temperature is obtained by analysis of the intermediate-mass-fragment yields in p(8.1 GeV) + Au collisions within the statistical model of multifragmentation. In the second case, the experimental fission probability for excited 188Os is compared with the calculated one with Tc as a free parameter. It is concluded for both cases that the critical temperature is higher than 15 MeV.

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Journal Title
Physics of Atomic Nuclei
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 2067-2073
ISSN
1063-7788
CODEN
PANUEO

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