Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences- Physics
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 29d
  • Issue: 2

Nuclear specific heat and phase transition in hot rotating nuclei

  • Author:
  • G. Suresh
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 131 to 135

Engineering Physics Section Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Annamalai University, Chidambaram -608 002. Email: Dr.gsuresh@rediffmail.com.

Abstract

The temperature and angular momentum dependence of the nuclear specific heat are investigated. The occurrence of a peak structure in the specific heat at temperatures of the order of 2.0–3.5MeV confirms the phase transitions for six even-even nuclei.

Keywords

Nuclear specific heat, Phase transition