Journal article

Publication year: 1987

Pages: 185-194

Journal: Journal de physique

Volume number: 48

Issue number: C-2

ISSN: 0302-0738

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1987227

Publisher: Société Française de Physique

Abstract: 

The Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation is derived from coupled equations of motion for the one-body density matrix and the two-body correlation function as obtained from the density-matrix hierarchy. The respective approximations introduced for the classical collision term are related with energy and momentum conservation in single nucleon-nucleon collisions and found numerically to be approximately valid for hard scattering processes in case of intermediate energy heavy-ion reactions. A related second order approximation in the nucleon-nucleon interaction, however, turns out not to be justified for colliding nuclear systems in the Fermi energy domain.

Harvard Citation style: Cassing, W. (1987) Quantal versus classical phase-space dynamics of heavy-ion reactions, Journal de physique, 48(C-2), pp. 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1987227

APA Citation style: Cassing, W. (1987). Quantal versus classical phase-space dynamics of heavy-ion reactions. Journal de physique. 48(C-2), 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1987227