Bimodalities : a survey of experimental data and models

Abstract

Bimodal distributions of some chosen variables measured in nuclear collisions were recently proposed as a non ambiguous signature of a first order phase transition in nuclei. This section presents a compilation of both theoretical and experimental studies on bimodalities performed so far, in relation with the liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter.

12 pages, 18 figures, 1 table Appeared in European Physics Journal A as part of the Topical Volume "Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of Freedom"

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• Distribution of the largest fragment in the Lattice Gas Model

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• Bimodal behavior of the heaviest fragment distribution in projectile fragmentation
• Signals of bimodality in the fragmentation of Au quasi-projectiles