Liquid-gas phase transition in hot nuclei studied with INDRA

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

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