Probing the nuclear EOS with fragment production

Abstract

We discuss fragmentation mechanisms and isospin transport occurring in central collisions between neutron rich systems at Fermi energies. In particular, isospin effects are analyzed looking at the correlations between fragment isotopic content and kinematical properties. Simulations are based on an approximate solution of the Boltzmann-Langevin (BL) equation. An attempt to solve the complete BL equation, by introducing full fluctuations in phase space is also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures; Int.Nucl.Phys.Conf., Tokyo June 07, to appear in Nucl.Phys.A (Elsart