Experimental Determination of In-Medium Cluster Binding Energies and   Mott Points in Nuclear Matter
  In medium binding energies and Mott points for $d$, $t$, $^3$He and $\alpha$ clusters in low density nuclear matter have been determined at specific combinations of temperature and density in low density nuclear matter produced in collisions of 47$A$ MeV $^{40}$Ar and $^{64}$Zn projectiles with $^{112}$Sn and $^{124}$Sn target nuclei. The experimentally derived values of the in medium modified binding energies are in good agreement with recent theoretical predictions based upon the implementation of Pauli blocking effects in a quantum statistical approach. 
K. Hagel, R. Wada, L. Qin, J. B. Natowitz, S. Shlomo, A. Bonasera, G.   R\"opke, S. Typel, Z. Chen, M. Huang, J. Wang, H. Zh...
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