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Statistical Exploration of Fragmentation Phase Space Source Sizes in Nuclear Multifragmentation

L. G. Moretto, L. Beaulieu, L. Phair, G. J. Wozniak

nucl-exarXiv:nucl-ex/9812010

Abstract

The multiplicity distributions for individual fragment Z values in nuclear multifragmentation are binomial. The extracted maximum value of the multiplicity is found to depend on Z according to m=Z0/Z, where Z0 is the source size. This is shown to be a strong indication of statistical coverage of fragmentation phase space. The inferred source sizes coincide with those extracted from the analysis of fixed multiplicity charge distributions.

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