Published June 1984 | Version v1
Journal article

Liquid-gas phase transitions in finite nuclear matter

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

Description

A procedure is developed to calculate the chemical potential of a system of fermions at high temperatures in the independent particle model. This is then used to investigate the occurrence of liquid-gas phase transitions in finite nuclei employing various zero-range nuclear effective interactions. Finite size effects and the Coulomb force are found to lead to a sizeable reduction (approx.8 MeV) in the ''critical'' temperature as compared to the case of infinite nuclear matter

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., C
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
6
Series
Phys. Rev., C.
Journal Page Range
2067-2074
ISSN
0556-2813