MICROCANONICAL SIMULATION OF NUCLEAR DISASSEMBLY

Dec, 1986
20 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 474 (1987) 173-192
  • Published: 1987
Report number:
  • LBL-21165

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We formulate a model for the disassembly of a highly excited finite nuclear source into interacting nuclear fragments. Monte Carlo sampling of the exact microcanonical and canonical ensemble provides many-fragment configurations at the effective freeze-out stage. The effect of including the interaction between the fragments is significant and an elaboration of the model that allows for a nucleon vapor suggests the existence of a first-order phase transition.