Circumstantial Evidence for a Critical Behavior in Peripheral Au + Au Collisions at 35 MeV/nucleon

The fragmentation resulting from peripheral Au + Au collisions at an incident energy of E = 35 MeV/nucleon is investigated. A power-law charge distribution, $A^{-tau}$ with $tau approx 2.2$, and an intermittency signal are observed for events selected in the region of the Campi scatter plot where critical behavior is expected.