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New Wrinkles on an Old Model: Correlation Between Liquid Drop Parameters and Curvature Term
Luciano G. Moretto, James B. Elliott, Peter T. Lake +1
The relationship between the volume and surface energy coefficients in the liquid drop A^{-1/3} expansion of nuclear masses is discussed. The volume and surface coefficients in the…
Can a Hagedorn system have a temperature other than or can a thermostat have a temperature other than its own?
L. G. Moretto, K. A. Bugaev, J. B. Elliott +1
This is a note intended to complement our paper (nucl-th/0504010) and addressed to the attention of QGP workers interested in bag models, Hagedorn spectra, and the like. It tries t…
The Hagedorn thermostat
L. G. Moretto, K. A. Bugaev, J. B. Elliott +1
A system H with a Hagedorn-like mass spectrum imparts its unique temperature TH to any other system coupled to it. An H system radiates particles in preexisting physical and chemic…
The complement: a solution to liquid drop finite size effects in phase transitions
L. G. Moretto, K. A. Bugaev, J. B. Elliott +3
The effects of the finite size of a liquid drop undergoing a phase transition are described in terms of the complement, the largest (but still mesoscopic) drop representing the liq…
Surface Partition of Large Fragments
K. A. Bugaev, L. Phair, J. B. Elliott +1
The surface partition of large fragments is derived analytically within a simple statistical model by the Laplace-Fourier transformation method. In the limit of small amplitude def…
Uniqueness of Fisher plots and their inferred (nuclear) liquid-vapor phase diagrams
J. B. Elliott, L. G. Moretto, L. Phair
A detailed study of the lattice gas (Ising) model shows that the correct definition of cluster concentration in the vapor at coexistence with the liquid leads to Fisher plots that…
The resistible effects of Coulomb interaction on nucleus-vapor phase coexistence
L. G. Moretto, J. B. Elliott, L. Phair
We explore the effects of Coulomb interaction upon the nuclear liquid vapor phase transition. Because large nuclei (A>60) are metastable objects, phases, phase coexistence, and pha…
Negative heat capacities and first order phase transitions in nuclei
L. G. Moretto, J. B. Elliott, L. Phair +1
Anomalous negative heat capacities have been claimed as indicators of first order phase transitions in finite systems in general, and fornuclear systems in particular. A thermodyna…
The three-dimensional Ising model: A paradigm of liquid-vapor coexistence in nuclear multifragmentation
C. M. Mader, A. Chappars, J. B. Elliott +3
Clusters in the three-dimensional Ising model rigorously obey reducibility and thermal scaling up to the critical temperature. The barriers extracted from Arrhenius plots depend on…
Negative heat capacities and first order phase transitions in nuclei and other mesoscopic systems
L. G. Moretto, J. B. Elliott, L. Phair +1
The origin of predicted and observed anomalies in caloric curves of nuclei and other mesoscopic systems is investigated. It is shown that a straightforward thermodynamical treatmen…