%0 Journal Article
%T The resistible effects of Coulomb interaction on nucleus-vapor phase coexistence
%A L. G. Moretto
%A J. B. Elliott
%A L. Phair
%J Physics
%D 2003
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevC.68.061602
%X We explore the effects of Coulomb interaction upon the nuclear liquid vapor phase transition. Because large nuclei (A>60) are metastable objects, phases, phase coexistence, and phase transitions cannot be defined with any generality and the analogy to liquid vapor is ill-posed for these heavy systems. However, it is possible to account for the Coulomb interaction in the decay rates and obtain the coexistence phase diagram for the corresponding uncharged system.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0307102v1