First-order phase transition in intermediate-energy heavy ion collisions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1182-1185

  Pan, Jicai ^a   Das Gupta, Subal ^a   Grant, Martin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; ION BEAMS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROTONS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

HEAVY ION COLLISION; LATTICE GAS MODEL; MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR DENSITY; NUCLEAR SYSTEM;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0032498491     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1182     Document Type: Article

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