Signals of a Critical Behavior in Peripheral Au + Au Collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon

Abstract

Multifragment events resulting from peripheral Au + Au collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon are analysed in terms of critical behavior. The analysis of most of criticality signals proposed so far (conditional moments of charge distributions, Campi scatter plot, fluctuations of the size of the largest fragment, intermittency analysis) is consistent with the occurrence of a critical behavior of the system.

9 pages, Tex file, 7 postscript figures available upon request from [email protected]; contribution to the XXXIV International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio (Italy), January 1996.