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Heated Nuclear Matter, Condensation Phenomena, and the Hadronic Equation of State

K. C. Chase and A. Z. Mekjian

  • Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4732 – Published 25 December, 1995

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4732

Abstract

The thermodynamic properties of heated nuclear matter are explored using an exactly solvable canonical ensemble model. This model reduces to the results of an ideal Fermi gas at low temperatures. At higher temperatures, the fragmentation of the nuclear matter into clusters of nucleons leads to features that resemble a Bose gas. Some parallels of this model with the phenomena of Bose condensation and with percolation phenomena are discussed. A simple expression for the hadronic equation of state is obtained from the model.

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