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Thermal properties of Fe-54
We study the thermal properties of Fe-54 with the Brown-Richter interaction
in the complete 1p0f model space. Monte Carlo calculations show a peak in the
heat capacity and rapid increases in both the moment of inertia and M1 strength
near a temperature of 1.1 MeV that are associated with the vanishing of
proton-proton and neutron-neutron monopole pair correlations; neutron-proton
correlations persist to higher temperatures. Our results are consistent with a
Fermi gas level density whose back-shift vanishes with increasing temperature.Comment: 10 pages (RevTeX) and 2 figures (uuencoded postscript). Caltech
preprint MAP-171 (originally submitted May 1994