Abstract Submitted
for the PHY 599 Graduate Seminar
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University
Nuclear Liquid-gas Phase Transition FRANCIS NORMAN C. PARAAN, Stony Brook University — In this graduate seminar,
I will give an overview of studies on the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition. I begin with some universality arguments that hint at a phase
transition between bound nuclear matter and a nucleon gas that is analogous to the classical liquid-gas transition. A brief description of the
multifragmentation picture of the breakup of the bound nucleus will be
given and the scaling phenomena and critical exponents that characterize the nuclear liquid-gas transition will be discussed. I conclude this
talk with a sketch of the technical difficulties encountered in establishing
caloric curves from experimental data.
Francis Norman C. Paraan
fparaan@ic.sunysb.edu
Stony Brook University
Date submitted: March 13, 2009
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