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 StöckerORCiDGND, Walter GreinerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-24565 |
| ISSN: | 0034-4885 |
| ISSN: | 1361-6633 |
| Parent Title (English): | Reports on progress in physics |
| Publisher: | IOP Publ. |
| Place of publication: | Bristol |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2006/02/22 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1994 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2006/02/22 |
| Tag: | EOS; Kollisionen schwerer Ionen; Zustandsgleichung EOS; equation of state; heavy ion collisions |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Page Number: | 70 |
| First Page: | 533 |
| Last Page: | 602 |
| Source: | Reports on progress in physics 57:533-602,1994. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 184914000 |
| Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
