A. Makeev

Caloric curves and critical behavior in nuclei

Data from a number of different experimental measurements are used to construct caloric curves for five different regions of nuclear mass. These curves are qualitatively similar, and exhibit plateaus at the higher excitation energies. The limiting temperatures represented by the plateaus decrease with increasing nuclear mass, and are in very good agreement with results of recent calculations employing either a chiral symmetry model or the Gogny interaction. This agreement strongly favors a soft equation of state. Evidence is presented which suggests that critical excitation energies and critical temperatures might be determined from caloric curve measurements when the mass variations inherent in such measurements are taken into account.

Critical behavior in light nuclear systems: Experimental aspects

An extensive experimental survey of the features of the disassembly of a small quasi-projectile system with

Reaction dynamics and multifragmentation in Fermi energy heavy ion reactions

A \sim

Tracing the evolution of temperature in near Fermi energy heavy ion collisions

36, produced in the reactions of 47 MeV/nucleon

Ghoshal-like test of equilibration in near-Fermi-energy heavy-ion collisions

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Evidence of critical behavior in the disassembly of nuclei withA∼36

Ar +

Sequential decay distortion of Goldhaber model widths for spectator fragments

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Search for temperature andN∕Zdependent effects in the decay ofA=98compound nuclei

Al,

Search for temperature and N / Z dependent effects in the decay of A = 98 compound nuclei

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Evidence of critical behavior in the disassembly of nuclei with A similar to 36

Ti and