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Effects of geometric constraints on the nuclear multifragmentation process
We include in statistical model calculations the facts that in the nuclear
multifragmentation process the fragments are produced within a given volume and
have a finite size. The corrections associated with these constraints affect
the partition modes and, as a consequence, other observables in the process. In
particular, we find that the favored fragmenting modes strongly suppress the
collective flow energy, leading to much lower values compared to what is
obtained from unconstrained calculations. This leads, for a given total
excitation energy, to a nontrivial correlation between the breakup temperature
and the collective expansion velocity. In particular we find that, under some
conditions, the temperature of the fragmenting system may increase as a
function of this expansion velocity, contrary to what it might be expected.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
Statistical multifragmentation model with discretized energy and the generalized Fermi breakup. I. Formulation of the model
The Generalized Fermi Breakup recently demonstrated to be formally equivalent
to the Statistical Multifragmentation Model, if the contribution of excited
states are included in the state densities of the former, is implemented. Since
this treatment requires the application of the Statistical Multifragmentation
Model repeatedly on the hot fragments until they have decayed to their ground
states, it becomes extremely computational demanding, making its application to
the systems of interest extremely difficult. Based on exact recursion formulae
previously developed by Chase and Mekjian to calculate the statistical weights
very efficiently, we present an implementation which is efficient enough to
allow it to be applied to large systems at high excitation energies. Comparison
with the GEMINI++ sequential decay code shows that the predictions obtained
with our treatment are fairly similar to those obtained with this more
traditional model.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
de Broglie-Proca and Bopp-Podolsky massive photon gases in cosmology
We investigate the influence of massive photons on the evolution of the
expanding universe. Two particular models for generalized electrodynamics are
considered, namely de Broglie-Proca and Bopp-Podolsky electrodynamics. We
obtain the equation of state (EOS) for each case using
dispersion relations derived from both theories. The EOS are inputted into the
Friedmann equations of a homogeneous and isotropic space-time to determine the
cosmic scale factor . It is shown that the photon non-null mass does not
significantly alter the result valid for a massless photon
gas; this is true either in de Broglie-Proca's case (where the photon mass
is extremely small) or in Bopp-Podolsky theory (for which is extremely
large).Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures; v2 matches the published versio
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