Inelastic Heavy-ion Collisions Research Articles

A one-dimensional statistical model of friction in deeply inelastic heavy ion collisions

We use the semiclassical approximation for the relative motion (which is simplified and taken to be one-dimensional), neglect other collective degrees of freedom, and describe the coupling between relative motion and intrinsic degrees of freedom by a random-matrix model. This leads to an explicit expression for the friction coefficient. Numerical calculations show qualitative agreement with the data.

On the interpretation of the observed heavily damped nuclear collisions in terms of a classical phenomenological description

Deep inelastic heavy ion collisions are investigated in a classical model including dissipative forces. In the dynamical calculation deformation degrees of freedom are taken into account explicitly.