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Strongly damped nuclear collisions: zero or first sound ?

Nuclear Theory 2011-01-25 v1

Abstract

The relaxation of the collective quadrupole motion in the initial stage of a central heavy ion collision at beam energies Elab=5÷20E_{lab}=5\div20 AMeV is studied within a microscopic kinetic transport model. The damping rate is shown to be a non-monotonic function of E_{lab} for a given pair of colliding nuclei. This fact is interpreted as a manifestation of the zero-to-first sound transition in a finite nuclear system.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0001016,
  title  = {Strongly damped nuclear collisions: zero or first sound ?},
  author = {A. B. Larionov and J. Piperova and M. Colonna and M. Di Toro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0001016},
  year   = {2011}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures

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