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

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.01.092

paper

Liquid-gas phase transition in hot nuclei studied with INDRA

arXiv:nucl-ex/0311016 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.01.092

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.

9 pages, 2 figures, Invited talk to Nucleus-nucleus 2003 Moscow June 2003