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arXiv:nucl-th/0503077·v1·Nuclear Theory

Dynamical study of spinodal decomposition in heavy ion collisions

A. Barrañón (1) · J. A. López (2) ((1) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-A, Mexico City,(2)The University of Texas at El Paso, USA.)

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Abstract

Nuclei undergo a phase transition in nuclear reactions according to a caloric curve determined by the amount of entropy. Here, the generation of entropy is studied in relation to the size of the nuclear system.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, Contributed paper for the 5th Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics: V-SILAFAE (2004)