Fluctuations in One-body Dynamics

Oct, 1989
28 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 514 (1990) 339-366
  • Published: 1990
Report number:
  • LBL-25852

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
With a view towards nuclear dynamics at intermediate energies, we develop a transport treatment for systems whose reduced one-body phase-space density exhibits a markovian time evolution. A moment expansion of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation leads to closed equations for the temporal evolution of the ensemble average of the phase-space occupancy f( r, p ) and its correlation function. The general properties of the associated relaxation processes are illustrated and the utility of the formulation for studies of nuclear collisions is discussed.