Bimodal behavior of the heaviest fragment distribution in projectile fragmentation

Details Bimodal behavior of the heaviest fragment distribution in projectile fragmentation Bimodal behavior of the heaviest fragment distribution in projectile fragmentation

2008-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1871v3

Physical Review Letters 103 (2009) 072701

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

5 pages, submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.072701

The charge distribution of the heaviest fragment detected in the decay of quasi-projectiles produced in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions has been observed to be bimodal. This feature is expected as a generic signal of phase transition in non-extensive systems. In this paper we present new analyses of experimental data from Au on Au collisions at 60, 80 and 100 MeV/nucleon showing that bimodality is largely independent of the data selection procedure, and of entrance channel effects. An estimate of the latent heat of the transition is extracted.

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