Physics Letters B (Jul 2018)
Phase transition dynamics for hot nuclei
- B. Borderie,
- N. Le Neindre,
- M.F. Rivet,
- P. Désesquelles,
- E. Bonnet,
- R. Bougault,
- A. Chbihi,
- D. Dell'Aquila,
- Q. Fable,
- J.D. Frankland,
- E. Galichet,
- D. Gruyer,
- D. Guinet,
- M. La Commara,
- I. Lombardo,
- O. Lopez,
- L. Manduci,
- P. Napolitani,
- M. Pârlog,
- E. Rosato,
- R. Roy,
- P. St-Onge,
- G. Verde,
- E. Vient,
- M. Vigilante,
- J.P. Wieleczko
Affiliations
- B. Borderie
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France; Corresponding author.
- N. Le Neindre
- LPC, CNRS/IN2P3, Ensicaen, Université de Caen, Caen, France
- M.F. Rivet
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- P. Désesquelles
- CSNSM, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- E. Bonnet
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
- R. Bougault
- LPC, CNRS/IN2P3, Ensicaen, Université de Caen, Caen, France
- A. Chbihi
- GANIL, (CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3), Caen, France
- D. Dell'Aquila
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France; Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E. Pancini’ and Sezione INFN, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
- Q. Fable
- GANIL, (CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3), Caen, France
- J.D. Frankland
- GANIL, (CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3), Caen, France
- E. Galichet
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France; Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
- D. Gruyer
- LPC, CNRS/IN2P3, Ensicaen, Université de Caen, Caen, France
- D. Guinet
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne France
- M. La Commara
- Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E. Pancini’ and Sezione INFN, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
- I. Lombardo
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
- O. Lopez
- LPC, CNRS/IN2P3, Ensicaen, Université de Caen, Caen, France
- L. Manduci
- LPC, CNRS/IN2P3, Ensicaen, Université de Caen, Caen, France; Ecole des Applications Militaires de l'Energie Atomique, Cherbourg, France
- P. Napolitani
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- M. Pârlog
- LPC, CNRS/IN2P3, Ensicaen, Université de Caen, Caen, France; Hulubei National Institute for R & D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Mágurele, Romania
- E. Rosato
- Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E. Pancini’ and Sezione INFN, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
- R. Roy
- Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- P. St-Onge
- GANIL, (CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3), Caen, France; Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- G. Verde
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
- E. Vient
- LPC, CNRS/IN2P3, Ensicaen, Université de Caen, Caen, France
- M. Vigilante
- Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E. Pancini’ and Sezione INFN, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
- J.P. Wieleczko
- GANIL, (CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3), Caen, France
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 782
pp. 291 – 296
Abstract
An abnormal production of events with almost equal-sized fragments was theoretically proposed as a signature of spinodal instabilities responsible for nuclear multifragmentation in the Fermi energy domain. On the other hand finite size effects are predicted to strongly reduce this abnormal production. High statistics quasifusion hot nuclei produced in central collisions between Xe and Sn isotopes at 32 and 45 A MeV incident energies have been used to definitively establish, through the experimental measurement of charge correlations, the presence of spinodal instabilities. N/Z influence was also studied. Keywords: Quasifusion reactions, Nuclear multifragmentation, Spinodal instabilities, Phase transition dynamics, N/Z effects