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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 545, Issues 1–2, 3 August 1992, Pages 237-245
Nuclear Physics A

Surface instabilities and nuclear multifragmentation

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Abstract

Central heavy-ion collisions, as described by a Boltzman-Nordheim-Vlasov calculation, form nuclear disks that break up into several fragments due to surface instabilities of the Rayleigh-Taylor kind. We demonstrate that a sheet of liquid, nuclear or otherwise, stable in the limit of infinitely sharp surfaces, becomes unstable due to surface-surface interactions. The onset of this instability is determined analytically. The relevance of these instabilities to nuclear multifragmentation is discussed.

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