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Fragment charge correlations and spinodal decomposition in finite nuclear systems

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Enhanced production of events with almost equal-sized fragments is experimentally revealed by charge correlations in the multifragmentation of a finite nuclear system selected in 129Xe central collisions on natSn. The evolution of their weight with the incident energy: 32, 39, 45, 50 AMeV, is measured. Dynamical stochastic mean-field simulations performed at 32 AMeV, in which spinodal instabilities are responsible for multifragmentation, exhibit a similar enhancement of this kind of events. The above experimental observation evidences the spinodal decomposition of hot finite nuclear matter as the origin of multifragmentation in the Fermi energy regime.

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Received: 22 November 2002, Revised: 22 April 2003, Published online: 30 September 2003

PACS:

25.70.Pq Multifragment emission and correlations - 24.60.Ky Fluctuation phenomena

G. Tabacaru: Present address: Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College station, Texas 77845, USA.

N. Le Neindre: Permanent address: Institut de Physique Nucléaire, IN2P3-CNRS, F-91406 Orsay cedex, France.

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Tabacaru, G., Borderie, B., Désesquelles, P. et al. Fragment charge correlations and spinodal decomposition in finite nuclear systems. Eur. Phys. J. A 18, 103–116 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2002-10166-9

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