Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Pages: 1-124

Journal: Physics Reports

Volume number: 512

Issue number: 1-2

ISSN: 0370-1573

eISSN: 1873-6270

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2011.12.001

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
In this review we first outline the basics of transport theory and its recent generalization to off-shell transport. We then present in some detail the main ingredients of any transport method using in particular the Giessen Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (GiBUU) implementation of this theory as an example. We discuss the potentials used, the ground state initialization and the collision term, including the in-medium modifications of the latter. The central part of this review covers applications of GiBUU to a wide class of reactions, starting from pion-induced reactions over proton and antiproton reactions on nuclei to heavy-ion collisions (up to about 30 AGeV). A major part concerns also the description of photon-, electron- and neutrino-induced reactions (in the energy range from a few 100 MeV to a few 100 GeV). For this wide class of reactions GiBUU gives an excellent description with the same physics input and the same code being used. We argue that GiBUU is an indispensable tool for any investigation of nuclear reactions in which final-state interactions play a role. Studies of pion-nucleus interactions, nuclear fragmentation, heavy-ion reactions, hypernucleus formation, hadronization, color transparency, electron-nucleus collisions and neutrino-nucleus interactions are all possible applications of GiBUU and are discussed in this article. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Buss, O., Gaitanos, T., Gallmeister, K., van Flees, H., Kaskulov, M., Lalakulich, O., et al. (2012) Transport-theoretical description of nuclear reactions, Physics Reports, 512(1-2), pp. 1-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2011.12.001

APA Citation style: Buss, O., Gaitanos, T., Gallmeister, K., van Flees, H., Kaskulov, M., Lalakulich, O., Larionov, A., Leitner, T., Weil, J., & Mosel, U. (2012). Transport-theoretical description of nuclear reactions. Physics Reports. 512(1-2), 1-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2011.12.001