The complement: a solution to liquid drop finite size effects in phase transitions.

The effects of the finite size of a liquid drop undergoing a phase transition are described in terms of the complement, the largest (but mesoscopic) drop representing the liquid in equilibrium with the vapor. Vapor cluster concentrations, pressure, and density from fixed mean density lattice gas (Ising) calculations are explained in terms of the complement generalization of Fisher's model. Accounting for this finite size effect is important for extracting the infinite nuclear matter phase diagram from experimental data.

Chronology of particle emission from the E/A=61 MeV 36Ar+27Al reaction.

The emission time chronology of neutrons, protons, and deuterons from the E/A=61 MeV 36Ar+27Al reaction is deduced from two-particle correlation functions.

Possibility to deduce the emission time sequence of neutrons and protons from the neutron-proton correlation function.

Experimental information has been derived from the neutron-proton correlation function in order to deduce the time sequence of neutrons and protons emitted at 45 degrees in the E/A = 45 MeV 58Ni + 27Al reaction.