https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10122-9
Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of Freedom
Bimodalities: A survey of experimental data and models
1
Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, IN2P3-CNRS/ENSICAEN/Université, F-14050, Caen cedex, France
2
Institut de Physique Nucléaire, IN2P3-CNRS, F-91406, Orsay cedex, France
* e-mail: lopezo@lpccaen.in2p3.fr
Received:
13
February
2006
Accepted:
17
July
2006
Published online:
25
October
2006
Bimodal distributions of some chosen variables measured in nuclear collisions were recently proposed as a non-ambiguous signature of a first-order phase transition in nuclei. This section presents a compilation of both theoretical and experimental studies on bimodalities performed so far, in relation with the liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter.
PACS: 25.70.Pq Multifragment emission and correlations – / 24.60.-k Statistical theory and fluctuations – / 64.60.Cn Order-disorder transformations; statistical mechanics of model systems – / 25.70.-z Low and intermediate energy heavy-ion reactions –
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