New Rayleigh-Taylor-like surface instability and nuclear multifragmentation
- 28 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 69 (13) , 1884-1887
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.69.1884
Abstract
Nuclear disks and bubbles formed in central heavy-ion collisions, as simulated by means of Boltzmann-like kinetic equations, break up into several fragments due to a new kind of Rayleigh-Taylor-like surface instability. We demonstrate that a sheet of liquid, stable in the limit of noninteracting surfaces, becomes unstable due to surface-surface interactions. The onset of this instability is determined analytically. The relevance of this instability to nuclear multifragmentation is discussed.Keywords
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