Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
1995-10-03
Phys.Lett. B367 (1996) 55-59
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
8 pages, 1 uuencoded Postscript figure
Scientific paper
10.1016/0370-2693(95)01402-0
Off-shell propagation of nucleons is neglected in one-body transport models of heavy-ion collisions, but it could be significant in processes that are limited by phase space, such as the threshold production of heavy particles. We estimate the relative magnitude of off-shell production to on-shell production of the N$^*$(1535) resonance in heavy ion collisions. In the region where the on-shell production is dominated by a~two-step mechanism with an intermediate $\Delta$, we find that the contribution of off-shell scattering between projectile and target nucleons is indeed small. Beyond the latter contribution, however, correlations in the initial wave function produce off-shell contributions which can exceed those of the on-shell $\Delta$ mechanism.
Bertsch George F.
Danielewicz Pawel
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