NEW RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR-LIKE SURFACE INSTABILITY AND NUCLEAR MULTIFRAGMENTATION

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作者
MORETTO, LG
TSO, K
COLONNA, N
WOZNIAK, GJ
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[1] Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1884
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Nuclear disks and bubbles formed in central heavy-ion collisions, as simulated by means of Boltzmann-like kinetic equations, break up into several fragments due to a new kind of Rayleigh-Taylor-like surface instability. We demonstrate that a sheet of liquid, stable in the limit of noninteracting surfaces, becomes unstable due to surface-surface interactions. The onset of this instability is determined analytically. The relevance of this instability to nuclear multifragmentation is discussed.
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页码:1884 / 1887
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