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The role of statistics and thermodynamics in nuclear multifragmentation

Conference ·
OSTI ID:334366
The natural limit of binomial reducibility in nuclear multifragmentation is observed in excitation functions for intermediate mass fragments (IMF) of a given element Z. The multiplicity distributions for each window of transverse energy are Poissonian. Thermal scaling is observed in the linear Arrhenius plots constructed from the average multiplicity of each element. Emission barriers are extracted from the slopes of the Arrhenius plots and their possible origin is discussed.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Nuclear Science Div., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON (Canada)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
334366
Report Number(s):
LBNL--41936; CONF-9803151--; ON: DE99002390
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English