A HIC Primitive Spinodal Decomposition Signature

Abstract

Evidence of a primitive spinodal decomposition has been obtained for central Ni+Ni Heavy Ion Collision, since higher order charge correlations show a peak when four fragments of size equal to 6 are produced with an excitation of 4.75 MeV. This can be considered as a signature of a primitive breakup in equal sized fragments with a privileged fragment size. This computational result confirms other experimental and theoretical evidences about spinodal decompostion in HIC.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, Contributed paper for the XIX National Congress of the Mexican Thermodynamical Society held at San Miguel Regla, Hgo, Sept. 2004