Transport-theoretical Description of Nuclear Reactions

Understand

In this review we first outline the basics of transport theory and its recent generalization to off-shell transport.

• We then present in some detail the main ingredients of any transport method using in particular the Giessen Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (GiBUU) implementation of this theory as an example.
• We discuss the potentials used, the ground state initialization and the collision term, including the in-medium modifications of the latter.
• The central part of this review covers applications of GiBUU to a wide class of reactions, starting from pion-induced reactions over proton and antiproton reactions on nuclei to heavy-ion collisions (up to about 30 AGeV).