IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, (420), p. 012081, 2013
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/420/1/012081
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Simulations based on experimental data obtained from multifragmenting quasifused nuclei produced in central 129Xe + natSn collisions have been used to deduce event by event freeze-out properties on the thermal excitation energy range 4-12 AMeV. From these properties and temperatures deduced from proton transverse momentum fluctuations constrained caloric curves have been built. At constant average volumes caloric curves exhibit a monotonous behaviour whereas for constrained pressures a backbending is observed. Such results support the existence of a first order phase transition for hot nuclei. ; Comment: 11th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2012), San Antonio, Texas : United States (2012)