Understanding transport simulations of heavy-ion collisions at 100 and 400 AMeV: Comparison of heavy ion transport codes under controlled conditions

Understand

Transport simulations are very valuable for extracting physics information from heavy-ion collision experiments.

• With the emergence of many different transport codes in recent years, it becomes important to estimate their robustness in extracting physics information from experiments.
• We report on the results of a transport code comparison project.
• 18 commonly used transport codes were included in this comparison: 9 Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck-type codes and 9 Quantum-Molecular-Dynamics-type codes.