https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050222
Universal behaviour in fragmentation phenomena? The cluster case
1
Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, IN2P3-CNRS et Université Claude Bernard,
43
boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
2
Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire, CNRS (UMR 5579) et
Université Claude Bernard, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne
Cedex, France
3
Institut für Ionenphysik, Leopold Franzens Universität, Technikerstr. 25,
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Received:
8
September
1998
Accepted:
10
November
1998
Published online: 15 January 1999
We report the first account of a cluster fragmentation study involving high energy cluster-cluster collisions in which all the fragments of each collision occurring in the experiment are mass analyzed on an event by event basis. This allows an unbiased look at the true nature of fragmentation including a statistical analysis in terms of fluctuations in the fragment size distribution.
PACS: 36.40.Ei – Phase transitions in clusters / 05.70.Fh – Phase transitions: general aspects / 36.40.Qv – Stability and fragmentation of clusters
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1999
