Freeze-out volume in multifragmentation - dynamical simulations

Abstract

Stochastic mean-field simulations for multifragmenting sources at the same excitation energy per nucleon have been performed. The freeze-out volume, a concept which needs to be precisely defined in this dynamical approach, was shown to increase as a function of three parameters: freeze-out instant, fragment multiplicity and system size.

Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. A - march 2005