Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2007-04-02
Phys.Rev.C76:014619,2007
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
19 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.76.014619
We address two issues in the thermodynamic model for nuclear disassembly. Surprisingly large differences in results for specific heat were seen in predictions from the canonical and grand canonical ensembles when the nuclear system passes from liquid-gas co-existence to the pure gas phase. We are able to pinpoint and understand the reasons for such and other discrepancies when they appear. There is a subtle but important difference in the physics addressed in the two models. In particular if we reformulate the parameters in the canonical model to better approximate the physics addressed in the grand canonical model, calculations for observables converge. Next we turn to the issue of bimodality in the probability distribution of the largest fragment in both canonical and grand canonical ensembles. We demonstrate that this distribution is very closely related to average multiplicities. The relationship of the bimodal distribution to phase transition is discussed.
Chaudhuri Gargi
Gupta Subal Das
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