Heated Nuclear Matter, Condensation Phenomena, and the Hadronic Equation of State
- 25 December 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 75 (26) , 4732-4735
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.4732
Abstract
The thermodynamic properties of heated nuclear matter are explored using an exactly solvable canonical ensemble model. This model reduces to the results of an ideal Fermi gas at low temperatures. At higher temperatures, the fragmentation of the nuclear matter into clusters of nucleons leads to features that resemble a Bose gas. Some parallels of this model with the phenomena of Bose condensation and with percolation phenomena are discussed. A simple expression for the hadronic equation of state is obtained from the model.Comment: 12 pages, revtex, 1 ps file appended (figure 1Keywords
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