Analyzing Fragmentation of Simple Fluids with Percolation Theory

Abstract

We show that the size distributions of fragments created by high energy nuclear collisions are remarkably well reproduced within the framework of a parameter free percolation model. We discuss two possible scenarios to explain this agreement and suggest that percolation could be an universal mechanism to explain the fragmentation of simple fluids.

12 pages, 11 figures

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