Description of heavy ion collisions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Heavy ion collisions are best described by transport models that include both mean-field potentials and two-body collisions. In particular, the relativistic transport model, which treats consistently the change of hadron masses and energies in hot dense matter, allows one to study these medium effects in heavy ion collisions. In this talk, we review the present understanding of hadron in-medium properties and the progress made in extracting such information from available experimental data using the relativistic transport model.

published proceedings

  • Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

author list (cited authors)

  • Ko, C. M.

citation count

  • 5

complete list of authors

  • Ko, CM

publication date

  • January 1999