Multifragmentation reactions and properties of hot stellar matter at sub-nuclear densities

Jun, 2005
10 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.C 72 (2005) 048801
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Abstract:
We point out similarity of thermodynamic conditions reached in intermediate energy nuclear collisions and in supernova explosions. We show that a statistical approach, which has been previously applied for nuclear multifragmentation reactions, can be very useful for description of electro-neutral stellar matter. Then properties of hot unstable nuclei extracted from analysis of multifragmentation data can be used for construction of a realistic equation of state of supernova matter.
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