Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Asymmetric Nuclear Matter

Abstract

We present several possibilities offered by the reaction dynamics of dissipative heavy ion collisions to study in detail the symmetry term of the nuclear equation of state, $EOS$. In particular we discuss isospin effects on the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition, {\it Isospin Distillation}, and on collective flows. We stress the importance of a microscopic relativistic structure of the effective interaction in the isovector channel. The possibility of an {\it early} transition to deconfined matter in high isospin density regions is also suggested. We finally select {\it Eleven} observables, in different beam energy regions, that appear rather sensitive to the isovector part of the nuclear $EOS$, in particular in more exclusive experiments.

8 pages, 7 figures, ISPUN02 Conference, Halong-Vietnam, Nov.20-25 2002, to appear in Nucl.Phys.A. Elsevier Proceedings Style

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