Circumstantial Evidence for a Critical Behavior in Peripheral Au + Au Collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon

Abstract

The fragmentation resulting from peripheral Au + Au collisions at an incident energy of E = 35 MeV/nucleon is investigated. A power-law charge distribution, $A^{-\tau }$ with $\tau \approx 2.2$, and an intermittency signal are observed for events selected in the region of the Campi scatter plot where "critical" behavior is expected.

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