Statistical and Dynamical Model Studies of Nuclear Multifragmentation Reactions at Intermediate Energies

TL;DR

This paper investigates nuclear multifragmentation at intermediate energies, focusing on exotic nuclei production, symmetry energy, and liquid-gas phase transition through statistical and dynamical models.

Contribution

It provides new insights into reaction mechanisms and phase transitions in heavy ion collisions using advanced statistical and dynamical modeling techniques.

Findings

Production of exotic nuclei demonstrated

Nuclear symmetry energy characterized at intermediate energies

Evidence of nuclear liquid-gas phase transition

Abstract

Nuclear multifragmentation is an important phenomenon, the study of which can throw light on reaction mechanism in heavy ion collisions at intermediate and high energies. Based on statistical and dynamical model studies, this thesis is concentrated mainly on, the following three aspects of nuclear multifragmentation reactions namely (i) production of exotic nuclei which are normally not available in the laboratory (ii) nuclear symmetry energy from heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies and (iii) Nuclear liquid-gas phase transition. In addition to these equivalence of statistical ensembles under different conditions is also studied in the framework of multifragmentation.