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Liquid-gas phase transition in hot nuclei studied with INDRA

B. Borderie, R. Bougault, P. Desesquelles, E. Galichet, B. Guiot, Ph. Lautesse, N. Le Neindre, J. Marie, M. Parlog, M. Pichon. M. F. Rivet, E. Rosato, G. Tabacaru, M. Vigilante, J. P. Wieleczko

nucl-exarXiv:nucl-ex/0311016

Abstract

Thanks to the high detection quality of the INDRA array, signatures related to the dynamics (spinodal decomposition) and thermodynamics (negative microcanonical heat capacity) of a liquid-gas phase transition have been simultaneously studied in multifragmentation events in the Fermi energy domain. The correlation between both types of signals strongly supports the existence of a first order phase transition for hot nuclei.

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