Abstract
A procedure is developed to calculate the chemical potential of a system of fermions at high temperatures in the independent particle model. This is then used to investigate the occurrence of liquid-gas phase transitions in finite nuclei employing various zero-range nuclear effective interactions. Finite size effects and the Coulomb force are found to lead to a sizeable reduction (8 MeV) in the "critical" temperature as compared to the case of infinite nuclear matter.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2067-2074 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physical Review C |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1984 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics