Eur. Phys. J. A (2016) 52: 112
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16112-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Influence of different liquid-drop-based bindings on lighter mass fragments and entropy production

Department of Physics, Panjab University, 160 014, Chandigarh, India

^* e-mail: rohitksharma.pu@gmail.com

Received: 20 October 2015
Accepted: 29 February 2016
Published online: 26 April 2016

Abstract

We study the production of lighter fragments and associated phenomena within the Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD) model. The Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) method is used to identify the pre-clusters. The final stable fragments were identified by imposing binding energy criteria on the fragments formed using the MST method. The effect of different binding energy criteria was investigated by employing various liquid-drop-based binding energy formulae. Though light clusters show significant effect of different binding energies, their associated phenomenon, i.e. entropy production is insensitive towards different binding energy criteria.