Kiro Miyazaki
Critical phenomena of strange hadronic matter in the extended Zimanyi-Moszkowski model
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ABSTRACT.  We have studied the liquid-gas phase transition of warm strange hadronic matter (SHM) in the extended Zimanyi-Moszkowski model. We implement the Nijmegen soft-core potential model NSC97f of hyperon-hyperon interactions in terms of the (hidden) strange mesons. The saturation properties of pure Lambda and Xi matter by the potential essentially determine the dependence of the critical temperature on the strangeness fraction of SHM. We treat the liquid-gas phase transition of SHM as the first-order one and employ Maxwell construction so as to calculate the phase coexistence curves. The derived critical exponents beta \simeq 1/3 and gamma=1.22 are almost independent of the strangeness fraction of SHM and almost agree with the empirical values derived from the recent multifragmentation reactions. Consequently, we have confirmed the universality of the critical phenomena in the liquid-gas phase transition of hadronic system.