Investigation of critical behaviour from nuclear fragment yield ratios
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Nuclear fragment yield data has been analyzed using the Landau free energy description to investigate the critical phenomena in the fragmentation of quasiprojectile in the reactions 78,86Kr+58,64Ni at beam energy of 35 MeV/nucleon. The data on mirror nuclei yield ratio for A=3 and 7 showed an exponential dependence on the isospin asymmetry of the quasiprojectile as predicted by the Landau free energy approach. The slope parameter, obtained from linear fit to the plots of the logarithm of mirror nuclei yield ratios as a function of isospin asymmetry of the fragmenting source provided a reasonable estimate of the nuclear symmetry energy, and showed a systematic decrease with increasing excitation energy of the quasiprojectile.