Abstract
Off-shell propagation of nucleons is neglected in one-body transport models of heavy-ion collisions, but could be significant in processes that are limited by phase space, such as the threshold production of heavy particles. We estimate the relative magnitude of off-shell production to on-shell production of the N ∗ (1535) resonance in heavy ion collisions. In the region where the on-shell production is dominated by a two-step mechanism with an intermediate Δ, we find that the contribution of off-shell scattering between projectile and target nucleons is indeed small. Beyond the latter contribution, however, correlations in the initial wave function produce off-shell contributions which can exceed those of the on-shell Δ mechanism.
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