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Bimodalities: A survey of experimental data and models

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Bimodal distributions of some chosen variables measured in nuclear collisions were recently proposed as a non-ambiguous signature of a first-order phase transition in nuclei. This section presents a compilation of both theoretical and experimental studies on bimodalities performed so far, in relation with the liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter.

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, IN2P3-CNRS/ENSICAEN/Université, F-14050, Caen cedex, France

    O. Lopez

  2. Institut de Physique Nucléaire, IN2P3-CNRS, F-91406, Orsay cedex, France

    M. F. Rivet

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Lopez, O., Rivet, M.F. Bimodalities: A survey of experimental data and models. Eur. Phys. J. A 30, 263–274 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10122-9

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