Flow effects on multifragmentation in the canonical model

Abstract

A prescription to incorporate the effects of nuclear flow on the process of multifragmentation of hot nuclei is proposed in an analytically solvable canonical model. Flow is simulated by the action of an effective negative external pressure. It favors sharpening the signatures of liquid-gas phase transition in finite nuclei with increased multiplicity and a lowered phase transition temperature.

13 pages, 5 Post Script figures (accepted for publication in PRC)

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• Caloric curves and critical behavior in nuclei
• Negative specific heat in a thermodynamic model of multifragmentation
• Liquid-gas phase transition in nuclei in the relativistic Thomas-Fermi theory

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