Clustering in supercritical nuclear matter: a lattice-gas approach

✍ Scribed by X. Campi; H. Krivine

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 432 KB
• Volume: 620
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(97)00162-0

✦ Synopsis

Using a definition of droplets based on stability considerations, we find above the liquid-gas critical point a full line of "critical" points on which the droplet size distribution is a power law with an exponent r ~--2.2. Consequences on the interpretation of such distributions observed in nuclear fragmentation are discussed.