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Title: Studies of nuclei under the extreme conditions of density, temperature, isospin asymmetry and the phase diagram of hadronic matter

Abstract

The main emphasis of the entire project is on issues having to do with medium energy and ultra-relativistic energy and heavy ion collisions. A major goal of both theory and experiment is to study properties of hot dense nuclear matter under various extreme conditions and to map out the phase diagram in density or chemical potential and temperature. My studies in medium energy nuclear collisions focused on the liquid-gas phase transition and cluster yields from such transitions. Here I developed both the statistical model of nuclear multi-fragmentation and also a mean field theory.

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  1. Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26)
OSTI Identifier:
1329927
Report Number(s):
DE-FG02-96ER40987
TRN: US1700420
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-96ER40987
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; NUCLEAR MATTER; PHASE DIAGRAMS; DENSITY; ISOSPIN; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; MEAN-FIELD THEORY; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; STATISTICAL MODELS; ASYMMETRY; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION

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Mekjian, Aram. Studies of nuclei under the extreme conditions of density, temperature, isospin asymmetry and the phase diagram of hadronic matter. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.2172/1329927.
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abstractNote = {The main emphasis of the entire project is on issues having to do with medium energy and ultra-relativistic energy and heavy ion collisions. A major goal of both theory and experiment is to study properties of hot dense nuclear matter under various extreme conditions and to map out the phase diagram in density or chemical potential and temperature. My studies in medium energy nuclear collisions focused on the liquid-gas phase transition and cluster yields from such transitions. Here I developed both the statistical model of nuclear multi-fragmentation and also a mean field theory.},
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year = {Tue Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
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