Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of Freedom

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Challenges in nuclear dynamics and thermodynamics....Pages 1-3
Modelization of the EOS....Pages 5-21
Deducing the nuclear-matter incompressibility coefficient from data on isoscalar compression modes....Pages 23-30
Systematics of stopping and flow in Au+Au collisions....Pages 31-46
High-energy probes....Pages 47-64
Neck dynamics....Pages 65-70
Systematics of fragment observables....Pages 71-79
Correlations and characterization of emitting sources....Pages 81-108
Dynamical models for fragment formation....Pages 109-120
Statistical description of nuclear break-up....Pages 121-128
Comparisons of statistical multifragmentation and evaporation models for heavy-ion collisions....Pages 129-139
Instabilities in nuclear matter and finite nuclei....Pages 141-151
Isospin flows....Pages 153-163
Isotopic compositions and scalings....Pages 165-182
Evolution of the giant dipole resonance properties with excitation energy....Pages 183-202
Nuclear thermometry....Pages 203-213
Calorimetry....Pages 215-226
Moment analysis and Zipf law....Pages 227-242
Many-fragment correlations and possible signature of spinodal fragmentation....Pages 243-251
Fluctuations of fragment observables....Pages 253-262
Bimodalities: A survey of experimental data and models....Pages 263-274
Detection....Pages 275-291
Nuclear multifragmentation, its relation to general physics....Pages 293-302
Links between heavy ion and astrophysics....Pages 303-310
Possible links between the liquid-gas and deconfinement-hadronization phase transitions....Pages 311-316
The challenges of finite-system statistical mechanics....Pages 317-331
Small fermionic systems: The common methods and challenges....Pages 333-342