Physics of high-energy heavy-ion collisions
This a review of the present status of heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies. The main goal of heavy-ion physics in this energy regime is to shed some light on the nuclear equation of state (EOS), hence we present the basic concept of the EOS in nuclear matter as well as of nuclear shock waves which provide the key mechanism for the compression of nuclear matter. The main part of this article is devoted to the models currently used for describing heavy-ion reactions theoretically and to the observables useful for extracting information about the EOS from experiments. A detailed discussion of the flow effects with a broad comparison with the avaible data is presented. The many-body aspects of such reactions are investigated via the multifragmentation break up of excited nuclear systems and a comparison of model calculations with the most recent multifragmentation experiments is presented.
| Author: | Georg Peilert, Horst Stöcker, Walter Greiner |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-24565 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 22.02.2006 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1994 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Tag: | EOS ; Kollisionen schwerer Ionen; Zustandsgleichung EOS ; equation of state ; heavy ion collisions |
| Source: | Reports on progress in physics 57:533-602,1994. |
| HeBIS PPN: | 184914000 |
| Institutes: | Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 530 Physik |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
