Heavy Ion Collisions at Intermediate Energy

Ions are atoms or molecules stripped of their electrons, so they can be accelerated by electric fields. They can be made to hit each other with low energy, intermediate energy, high energy, or very high energy; each energy range seeks to investigate different aspects of hadronic physics. Intermediate-energy heavy ion collisions explore the nuclei far from stability valley, the incompressibility of nuclear matter, the liquid–gas phase transition in nuclear environment, the symmetry energy far from the normal density, and other phenomena. This has been an active field of research for last four decades.

This is a book for entrants in the field. It is suitable as a companion book in a graduate course. For practitioners in the field it will be useful as a reference.
Contents: IntroductionA Simple Model for Nuclear MultifragmentationTowards Realistic CalculationsIsoscalingA Model for Projectile FragmentationPercolation and Lattice Gas ModelBimodalityPhase TransitionIncorporating Fermionic and Bosonic StatisticsTowards Microscopic ModelsCascade Plus Mean Field ModelLattice Hamiltonian Vlasov MethodHybrid Model for Central Collision around Fermi Energy DomainProjectile Fragmentation Combining BUU and CTMA Model for Fluctuation in BUUMomentum DependenceQuantum Molecular Dynamics ModelEpilogue
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in particle physics.Heavy Ion Collisions;Intermediate Energy;Theoretical Models;Nuclear LiquidCGas Phase Transition00