Experimental Evidence of Critical Behavior in Cluster Fragmentation Using an Event-by-Event Data Analysis
- 9 November 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 81 (19) , 4108-4111
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.4108
Abstract
Using a recently developed multicoincidence technique, the hydrogen cluster fragmentation resulting from a collision between a high energy ion with a target is investigated on an event-by-event basis. For a sample of 6000 collisions, statistical methods (conditional moments, scaled factorial moments) are applied to these data sets. The results obtained provide strong experimental evidence for the presence of a critical behavior in these finite systems.
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