Comment on {open_quotes}Fragment distributions for highly charged systems{close_quotes}
- Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (United States)
An article by Williams {ital et al.} fails to find evidence for critical behavior in central collisions of 35{endash}400 MeV/nucleon {sup 84}Kr+{sup 197}Au. On this basis, and because of the effect of secondary decay on the fragment charge distribution, these authors question the validity of the critical exponents obtained by the EOS Collaboration for 1 GeV/nucleon Au+C. It is shown that the experiment by Williams {ital et al.} was not optimized to search for critical behavior and that the effect of secondary decay at the excitation energy corresponding to the critical point in the Au + C system is small. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 289068
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 59; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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