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An experimental measurement of the coexistence curve and critical temperature, density and pressure of bulk nuclear matter
J. B. Elliott, P. T. Lake, L. G. Moretto +1
Infinite, neutron-proton symmetric, neutral nuclear matter has a critical temperature of 17.9+-0.4 MeV, a critical density of 0.06+-0.01 nucleons per cubic fermi and a critical pre…
Yield scalings of clusters with fewer than 100 nucleons
James B. Elliott, Kyrill A. Bugaev, Luciano G. Moretto +1
This document gives a historical review of the scaling of particles yields emitted from excited nuclei. The focus will be on what scaling is, what can be learned from scaling, the…
Compound nuclear decay and the liquid to vapor phase transition: a physical picture
L. G. Moretto, J. B. Elliott, L. Phair
Analyses of multifragmentation in terms of the Fisher droplet model (FDM) and the associated construction of a nuclear phase diagram bring forth the problem of the actual existence…
Precise Barriers and Shell Effects: a New Inroad to Fission Saddle Point Spectroscopy
L. Phair, L. G. Moretto, K. X. Jing +6
Fission excitation functions have been measured for a chain of neighboring compound nuclei, from 207Po to 212Po. We present a new analysis which provides a determination of the fis…
Comment on ``Entry Distribution, Fission Barrier, and Formation Mechanism of 254No''
L. G. Moretto, L. Phair, G. J. Wozniak
A recent paper has reported the observation of the rotational band of 254No for spins up to I=20, showing that the compound nucleus was formed and survived fission decay at angular…
Liquid-vapor phase transition in nuclei or compound nucleus decay?
L. G. Moretto, J. B. Elliott, L. Phair +1
Recent analyses of multifragmentation in terms of Fisher's model and the related construction of a phase diagram brings forth the problem of the true existence of the vapor phase a…
Cnstructing the phase diagram of finite neutral nuclear matter
J. B. Elliott, L. G. Moretto, L. Phair +2
The fragment yields from the multifragmentation of gold, lanthanum and krypton nuclei obtained by the EOS Collaboration are examined in terms of Fisher's droplet formalism modifed…
The liquid to vapor phase transition in excited nuclei
J. B. Elliott, L. G. Moretto, L. Phair +16
For many years it has been speculated that excited nuclei would undergo a liquid to vapor phase transition. For even longer, it has been known that clusterization in a vapor carrie…
Nuclear multifragmentation, percolation and the Fisher Droplet Model: common features of reducibility and thermal scaling
J. B. Elliott, L. G. Moretto, L. Phair +2
It is shown that the Fisher Droplet Model (FDM), percolation and nuclear multifragmentation share the common features of reducibility (stochasticity in multiplicity distributions)…
A statistical interpretation of the correlation between intermediate mass fragment multiplicity and transverse energy
L. Phair, L. Beaulieu, L. G. Moretto +29
Multifragment emission following Xe+Au collisions at 30, 40, 50 and 60 AMeV has been studied with multidetector systems covering nearly 4-pi in solid angle. The correlations of bot…
Resilient Reducibility in Nuclear Multifragmentation
L. G. Moretto, L. Phair, G. J. Wozniak
The resilience to averaging over an initial energy distribution of reducibility and thermal scaling observed in nuclear multifragmentation is studied. Poissonian reducibility and t…
Statistical Exploration of Fragmentation Phase Space Source Sizes in Nuclear Multifragmentation
L. G. Moretto, L. Beaulieu, L. Phair +1
The multiplicity distributions for individual fragment Z values in nuclear multifragmentation are binomial. The extracted maximum value of the multiplicity is found to depend on Z…
Multifragmentation at Intermediate Energy: Dynamics or Statistics?
L. Beaulieu, L. Phair, L. G. Moretto +1
To make a statement about the nature and mechanism of fragmentation, it is necessary to probe directly any competition, or lack thereof, between the emission of various particle sp…
Z-dependent Barriers in Multifragmentation from Poissonian Reducibility and Thermal Scaling
L. Beaulieu, L. Phair, L. G. Moretto +1
We explore the natural limit of binomial reducibility in nuclear multifragmentation by constructing excitation functions for intermediate mass fragments (IMF) of a given element Z.…
Reduciblity, Arrhenius plots and the Uroboros Dragon, a reply to the preprint "Correlations in Nuclear Arrhenius-Type Plots" by M.B. Tsang and P. Danielewicz
L. G. Moretto, L. Beaulieu, L. Phair +1
In a recent preprint by Tsang and Danielewicz, the authors attempt to give alternative or trivial explanations for the reducible and "thermal" nature of the intermediate mass fragm…
3He- and 4He-induced nuclear fission - a test of the transition state method
Th. Rubehn, K. X. Jing, L. G. Moretto +3
Fission in 3He and 4He induced reactions at excitation energies between the fission barrier and 140 MeV has been investigated. Twentythree fission excitation functions of various c…
Characterization of nuclear physics targets using Rutherford backscattering and particle induced x-ray emission
Th. Rubehn, G. J. Wozniak, L. Phair +2
Rutherford backscattering and particle induced x-ray emission have been utilized to precisely characterize targets used in nuclear fission experiments. The method allows for a fast…
Do phase transitions survive binomial reducibility and thermal scaling?
L. G. Moretto, L. Phair, G. J. Wozniak
First order phase transitions are described in terms of the microcanonical and canonical ensemble, with special attention to finite size effects. Difficulties in interpreting a "ca…
The Role of Phase Space in Complex Fragment Emission from Low to Intermediate Energies
L. G. Moretto, R. Ghetti, K. X. Jing +3
The experimental emission probabilities of complex fragments by low energy compound nuclei and their dependence upon energy and atomic number are compared to the transition state r…
Scaling laws, transient times and shell effects in helium induced nuclear fission
Th. Rubehn, K. X. Jing, L. G. Moretto +3
Fission excitation functions of He-3 and He-4 induced compound nuclei are shown to scale exactly according to the Bohr-Wheeler transition state prediction once the shell effects ar…
Comment on "Circumstantial Evidence for Critical Behavior in Peripheral Au+Au Collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon"
L. Phair, Th. Rubehn, L. G. Moretto +1
Mastinu et al. recently reported the observation of several positive signals possibly indicating critical behavior in peripheral collisions of Au+Au at =35 MeV. In our comment…
Charge correlations and dynamical instabilities in the multifragment emission process
L. G. Moretto, Th. Rubehn, L. Phair +12
A new, sensitive method allows one to search for the enhancement of events with nearly equal-sized fragments as predicted by theoretical calculations based on volume or surface ins…
Scaling Laws and Transient Times in 3He Induced Nuclear Fission
Th. Rubehn, K. X. Jing, L. G. Moretto +3
Fission excitation functions of compound nuclei in a mass region where shell effects are expected to be very strong are shown to scale exactly according to the transition state pre…
Statistical Multifragmentation in Central Au+Au Collisions at 35 MeV/u
M. D'Agostino, A. S. Botvina, P. M. Milazzo +32
Multifragment disintegrations, measured for central Au + Au collisions at E/A = 35 MeV, are analyzed with the Statistical Multifragmentation Model. Charge distributions, mean fragm…