Correlations in Nuclear Arrhenius-Type Plots

Arrhenius-type plots for multifragmentation process, defined as the transverse energy dependence of the single-fragment emission-probability, (ln(1/pb) vs 1/ √ Et), have been studied by examining the relationship of the parameters pb and Et to the intermediate-mass fragment multiplicity 〈n〉. The linearity of these plots reflects the correlation of the fragment multiplicity with the transverse energy. These plots may not provide thermal scaling information about fragment production as previously suggested. Typeset using REVTEX 1 About a hundred years ago, the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius discovered that the rate of chemical reactions increases with temperature [1]. Specifically, the chemical reaction rate constant (k) is related to the absolute temperature (T ) by