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We investigate the possibility of occurrence of a liquid-gas phase transition in a finite system. Through a study of mass distributions, scaled factorial moments and moments of cluster mass distributions, we find evidence for the presence of a critical behavior of our finite system. Furthermore, by studying scaling invariance of hydrodynamical equations in the framework of classical molecular dynamics, it is shown that hydrodynamical scaling is valid at high beam energies and not at low beam energies. At the beam energy where the violation of the scaling occurs, one observes a mass distribution exhibiting a power law which corresponds to the occurrence of a phase transition.
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Belkacem, M., Bonasera, A., Latora, V. (1996). Dynamics of Multifragmentation. In: Bauer, W., Mignerey, A. (eds) Advances in Nuclear Dynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0367-1_6
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