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Strongly damped nuclear collisions: zero or first sound ?

A. B. Larionov, J. Piperova, M. Colonna, M. Di Toro

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0001016

Abstract

The relaxation of the collective quadrupole motion in the initial stage of a central heavy ion collision at beam energies Elab=520 AMeV is studied within a microscopic kinetic transport model. The damping rate is shown to be a non-monotonic function of Elab 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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