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Heavy-ion collisions allow one to pump energy into a nuclear system. In central collisions of equal size nuclei one can also create a significant amount of compression using high energy nuclear beams. The possibility of studying nuclei far from normal conditions raises the question: can we study phase transitions in nuclei similar, for instance, to the way, one can study phase transition in water? This is the subject of the present article.
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Das Gupta, S., Mekjian, A.Z., Tsang, M.B. (2001). Liquid-Gas Phase Transition in Nuclear Multifragmentation. In: Negele, J.W., Vogt, E.W. (eds) Advances in Nuclear Physics. Advances in the Physics of Particles and Nuclei, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47915-X_2
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