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Phys. Rev. C 52, R1760–R1763 (1995)

Pre-equilibrium particle emission and critical exponent analysis

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Wolfgang Bauer and Alexander Botvina*
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Received 28 April 1995; published in the issue dated October 1995

In two different phase transition models of nuclear fragmentation we show that the emission of pre-equilibrium particles and mixing of events from different classes cannot be ignored in the analysis of nuclear fragmentation data in terms of critical exponents, and we show how the apparent values of the extracted exponents are affected.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.52.R1760
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.52.R1760
PACS:
25.70.Pq, 05.70.Jk, 21.65.+f

*On leave from Institute for Nuclear Research, 117312 Moscow, Russia. Present address: Hahn-Meitner-Institut, 14109 Berlin, Germany.

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Comment: J. B. Elliott, J. A. Hauger, A. S. Hirsch, E. L. Hjort, N. T. Porile, R. Scharenberg, B. K. Srivastava,, M. Tincknell, and P. Warren, Comment on “Pre-equilibrium particle emission and critical exponent analysis”, Phys. Rev. C 55, 544 (1997).

Reply: Wolfgang Bauer and Alexander Botvina, Reply to “Comment on ‘Pre-equilibrium particle emission and critical exponent analysis’ ”, Phys. Rev. C 55, 546 (1997).

 
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