TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jacak, Barbara V.
A1  - Stöcker, Horst
A1  - Westfall, Gary D.
T1  - Rapidity dependence of entropy production in proton- and nucleus-induced reactions on heavy nuclei
T2  - Physical review C
N2  - The entropy of hot nuclear systems is deduced from the mass distribution of fragments emitted from high energy proton- and nucleus-induced reactions via a quantum statistical model. It is found that the entropy per baryon, S/A, of intermediate rapidity ("participant") fragments is higher than the entropy of target rapidity ("spectator") fragments. The spectator fragments exhibit S/A values of ≅ 1.8 independent of the projectile energy from 30 MeV/nucleon up to 350 GeV. This value of the entropy coincides with the entropy at which nuclear matter becomes unbound.
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2618
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-27764
UR  - http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v29/p1744
VL  - 29
IS  - 5
SP  - 1744
EP  - 1747
ER  -