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Nuclear fragmentation: sampling the instabilities of binary systems

V. Baran, M. Colonna, M. Di Toro, V. Greco

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0009081

Abstract

We derive stability conditions of Asymmetric Nuclear Matter (ANM) and discuss the relation to mechanical and chemical instabilities of general two-component systems. We show that the chemical instability may appear as an instability of the system against isoscalar-like rather than isovector-like fluctuations if the interaction between the two constituent species has an attractive character as in the case of ANM. This leads to a new kind of liquid-gas phase transition, of interest for fragmentation experiments with radioactive beams.

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