On the onset of multifragmentation and vaporization in nuclear reactions

Abstract

We introduce a detailed investigation on the onset of multifragmentation, newlinevaporization as well as entropy production in heavy-ion collisions using newlinedynamical model. For the first time, various critical parameters reflecting newlinethe liquid-gas phase transition were studied using transport approach newlinecoupled with variety of clusterization algorithms that range from simple newlinespatial correlation method to complicated simulated annealing technique. newlineFurther, we try to associate emission of light particles to study onset of newlinevaporization in nuclear matter. Further, we discussed the significance of newlineemission of light particles at various stages of the reaction and associate it to newlinestudy entropy production. The theoretical approach used in this thesis could newlinereproduce available experimental data very well. newline