Advances in Nuclear Dynamics

by Benito Arruïada (Editor), A. Mignerey (Editor)

Overview

The study of nuclear dynamics is now in one of its most interesting phases. The theory is in the process of establishing an increasingly reliable transport description of heavy ion reactions from the initial violent phase dominated by first collisions to the more thermalized later stages of the reaction. This is true for the low-to-medium energy reactions, where the dynamics is formulated in terms of nucleonic, or in general hadronic, degrees of freedom. And it is also becoming a reality in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion reactions, where partonic elementary degrees of freedom have to be used. Experiments are now able to 'utilize the existing accelerators and multiparticle detec­ tion systems to conduct unprecedented studies of heavy-ion collisions on an event-by-event basis. In addition, the field anticipates the completion of the construction of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the proposed upgrade of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, promising qualitatively new data for the near future. All of these efforts are basically directed to the exploration of the change the nuclear medium provides for the properties and interactions of individual nucleons and, ultimately, the exploration of the nuclear matter phase diagram. The investigation of this phase dia­ gram, including all of the interesting phase transitions predicted from theoretical grounds, is the focus of most of the theoretical and experimental investigations of nuclear dynamics conducted today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461380191
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/06/2011
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

The Topology of Intermediate Mass Fragment Emission (W.J. Llope). Reducible Emission Probabilities and Thermal Scaling in Multifragmentation (L. Phair et al.). Heavy Residue Production in Dissipative 197Au+86Kr Collisions at E/A 35 MeV (W. Skulski et al.). Evolution of Fragment Distributions and Reaction Mechanisms for the 36Ar+58Ni System from 32 to 95 A MeV (L. Nalpas et al.). Critical Exponents from the Multifragmentation of 1 AGeV Au Nuclei (N.T. Porile et al.). Dynamics of Multifragmentation (M. Belkacem et al.). A Clusterization Model for BUU Calculations (E. GarciaSolis, A.C. Mignerey). Production of Heavy Fragments in the Reaction 40Ar+232Th (E. Berthomieux et al.). Analysis of Small Angle Particle-Particle Correlations via Classical Trajectory Calculations (N.N. Ajitanand). Saturation of Deposition Energy and Expansion Effects in Lightioninduced Reactions (K. Kwiatkowski et al.). Production of Hot Nuclei with Highenergy Protons, 3He and Antiprotons (B. Lott). Heavy Resonance Production in Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions (D. Seibert). Signatures of Statistical Decay (D. Horn et al.). Probing the Degrees of Freedom in Hot Composite Nuclei via Charged Particle Emission Studies (M. Kaplan et al.). 18 additional articles. Index.