Special Relativity and Reactions with Unstable Nuclei

Journal Article · Fri Oct 14 04:00:00 EDT 2005 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2114707· OSTI ID:20719429

Bertulani, C A ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 (United States)

Dynamical relativistic effects are often neglected in the description of reactions with unstable nuclear beams at intermediate energies (ELab {approx_equal} 100 MeV/nucleon). Evidently, this introduces sizable errors in experimental analysis and theoretical descriptions of these reactions. This is particularly important for the experiments held in GANIL/France, MSU/USA, RIKEN/Japan and GSI/Germany. I review a few examples where relativistic effects have been studied in nucleus-nucleus scattering at intermediate energies.

• OSTI ID: 20719429
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 791; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
DIRECT REACTIONS
MEV RANGE 10-100
NUCLEONS
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
RELATIVITY THEORY
SCATTERING