Liquid-gas phase transition in hot nuclei studied with INDRA
/ Authors
B. Borderie, R. Bougault, P. De´sesquelles, E. Galichet, B. Guiot, P. Lautesse, N. Neindre, J. Marie, M. Paˆrlog, M. Pichon
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M. Rivet, E. Rosato, G. Tabacaru, M. Vigilante, J. Wieleczko
/ Abstract
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.
Journal: Nuclear Physics