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Liquid-gas phase transition in hot nuclei studied with INDRA
Thanks to the high detection quality of the INDRA array, signatures related
to the dynamics (spinodal decomposition) and thermodynamics (negative
microcanonical heat capacity) of a liquid-gas phase transition have been
simultaneously studied in multifragmentation events in the Fermi energy domain.
The correlation between both types of signals strongly supports the existence
of a first order phase transition for hot nuclei.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, Invited talk to Nucleus-nucleus 2003 Moscow June
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