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The ISiS data set: baseline data for the study of thermal multifragmentation and the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition

Luc Beaulieu

Département de Physique, de Génie Physique et d'Optique
Université Laval

Data taken from the E900 and E900a experiments at the AGS were analyzed using a common event-by-event reconstruction procedure. The properties of excited nuclei formed as the result of the reactions were then extracted in term of source size, source mass and excitation energy. A total of 9 different reactions, ranging from 5 GeV/c to 14.6 GeV/c, are available for further analysis. The excitation energy per nucleon was adopted as the primary ordering variable. Results obtained from this data set, including those from 2 PRC and 2 PRL published in december 01/january 02, will be presented.

Friday, January 18th 2002, 11:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 305