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We study the time scale for pressure equilibration in heavy ion collisions at AGS energies within the three-fluid hydrodynamical model and a microscopic cascade model (UrQMD). We find that kinetic equilibrium is reached in both models after…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Brachmann , A. Dumitru , C. Spieles , J. Maruhn , H. Stöcker , W. Greiner

Kinetic equilibration during the early stage of a relativistic heavy ion collision is studied using a radiative transport model. Thermalization is found to dominate over expansion with medium regulated cross sections. Pressure anisotropy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-03-13 Bin Zhang

In-medium nucleon-nucleon scattering cross sections are explored by comparing results of quantum molecular dynamics simulations to data on stopping and on elliptic and directed flow in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yingxun Zhang , Zhuxia Li , Pawel Danielewicz

The uncertainty in the equilibration in heavy ion collisions due to the choice of the value of the coupling is examined. The results of the equilibration are indeed affected by this choice. In particular, a variation of $\a_s$ from 0.3 to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. H. Wong

We use a simple gas model to study non-equilibrium aspects of the multiparticle dynamics relevant to heavy ion collisions. By performing numerical simulations for various initial conditions we identify several characteristic features of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 J. P. Bondorf , H. Feldmeier , I. N. Mishustin , G. Neergaard

The time dependent Schroedinger equation is solved analytically for a simplified model of moving infinite walls. A new knock-out mode is described which might occur during heavy ion collisions. The outer shell-nucleons are ionised due to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Klaus Morawetz , Pavel Lipavský

Isospin equilibration in multi-fragmentation processes is studied for the system $^{40}Cl+^{28}Si$ at 40 MeV/nucleon. The investigation is performed through semiclassical microscopic many-body calculations based on the CoMD-II model. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-01-29 M. Papa , G. Giuliani

We study the correlation between balance energy and transition energy of fragment in heavy-ion collisions for different systems at incident energies between 40 and 1200 MeV/nucleon using an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-11-08 Rajni , Suneel Kumar , Rajeev K. Puri

We discuss the question of thermalization during the very early stages of a high energy heavy ion collision. We review a recent study where we explicitely showed that, contrarily to a widely used assumption, elastic collisions between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Julien Serreau

The role of higher order coupling of surface vibrations to the relative motion in heavy-ion fusion reactions at near-barrier energies is investigated. The coupled channels equations are solved to all orders, and also in the linear and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Hagino , N. Takigawa , M. Dasgupta , D. J. Hinde , J. R. Leigh

The transport approach is a useful tool to study dynamics of non-equilibrium systems. For heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies, where both the smooth nucleon potential and the hard-core nucleon-nucleon collision are important, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-02 Jun Xu

Incorporating for the first time both the spin and isospin degrees of freedom explicitly in transport model simulations of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions, we observe that a local spin polarization appears during collision process.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-09 Jun Xu , Bao-An Li

The initial distribution of gluons at the very early times after a high energy heavy ion collision is described by the bulk scale $Q_s$ of gluon saturation in the nuclear wavefunction. The subsequent evolution of the system towards kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 Jefferson Bjoraker , Raju Venugopalan

Two microscopic models, UrQMD and QGSM, were employed to study the formation of locally equilibrated hot and dense nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions at energies from 11.6 AGeV to 160 AGeV. Analysis was performed for the fixed central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Bravina , I. Arsene , J. Bleibel , M. Bleicher , G. Burau , Amand Faessler , C. Fuchs , M. S. Nilsson , H. Stoecker , K. Tywoniuk , E. Zabrodin

Experimental information on fragment emissions is important in understanding the dynamics of nuclear collisions and in the development of transport model simulating heavy-ion collisions. The composition of complex fragments emitted in the…

We study the N/Z and N/A dependence of balance energy (E$_{bal}$) for isotopic series of Ca having N/Z (N/A) varying from 1.0 to 2.0 (0.5 to 0.67). We show that the N/Z (N/A) dependence of E$_{bal}$ is sensitive to symmetry energy and its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 Aman D. Sood

The N/Z ratio of free nucleons from collisions of neutron-rich nuclei as a function of their momentum is studied by means of Isospin dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamics. We find that this ratio is not only sensitive to the form of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Qingfeng Li , Zhuxia Li , Enguang Zhao , H. Stoecker

Energy dissipative processes play a key role in how quantum many-body systems dynamically evolve towards equilibrium. In closed quantum systems, such processes are attributed to the transfer of energy from collective motion to…

We show that the phenomenology of isospin effects on heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies (few AGeV range) is extremely rich and can allow a ``direct'' study of the covariant structure of the isovector interaction in the hadron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Di Toro , M. Colonna , G. Ferini , T. Gaitanos , V. Greco , H. H. Wolter

A recent updated version of the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics is reviewed, in which the momentum dependence of symmetry potential and the effective mass splitting of proton and neutron in nuclear medium are included in the model. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-13 Zhao-Qing Feng