The Nuclear Liquid-Gas Phase Transition: Present Status and Future Perspectives
Abstract
More than two decades ago, the van der Waals behavior of the nucleon - nucleon force inspired the idea of a liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter. Heavy-ion reactions at relativistic energies offer the unique possibility for studying this phase transition in a finite, hadronic system. A general overview of this subject is given emphasizing the most recent results on nuclear calorimetry.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 1996
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.nucl-ex/9607004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:nucl-ex/9607004
- Bibcode:
- 1996nucl.ex...7004P
- Keywords:
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- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- 20 pages, TeX with 16 included figures