DETERMINATION OF CRITICAL EXPONENTS FROM THE MULTIFRAGMENTATION OF GOLD NUCLEI

Authors
GILKES ML ALBERGO S BIESER F BRADY FP CACCIA Z CEBRA DA CHACON AD CHANCE JL CHOI Y COSTA S ELLIOTT JB HAUGER JA HIRSCH AS HJORT EL INSOLIA A JUSTICE M KEANE D KINTNER JC LINDENSTRUTH V LISA MA LYNEN U MATIS HS MCMAHAN M MCPARLAND C MULLER WFJ OLSON DL PARTLAN MD PORILE NT POTENZA R RAI G RASMUSSEN J RITTER HG ROMANSKI J ROMERO JL RUSSO GV SANN H SCHARENBERG R SCOTT A SHAO Y SRIVASTAVA BK SYMONS TJM TINCKNELL M TUVE C WANG S WARREN P WIEMAN HH WOLF K
Citation
Ml. Gilkes et al., DETERMINATION OF CRITICAL EXPONENTS FROM THE MULTIFRAGMENTATION OF GOLD NUCLEI, Physical review letters, 73(12), 1994, pp. 1590-1593
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
73
Issue
12
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1590 - 1593
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)73:12<1590:DOCEFT>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Using reverse kinematics, we have studied the breakup of 1.0A GeV gold nuclei incident on a carbon target. The detector system permitted exc lusive event reconstruction of nearly all charged reaction nuclear mat ter possesses a critical point observable in finite nuclei. We have de termined values for the critical exponents gamma, beta, and tau. These values are close to those for liquid-gas systems and clearly differen t than those for 3D percolation and the liquid-gas mean field limit.