An investigation of nuclear collisions with a momentum-dependent Lattice Hamiltonian model

Abstract

We formulate a Lattice Hamiltonian approach for the modeling of intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. After verifying stationary ground state solutions, we implement this in a calculation of nuclear stopping power and compare our results with experimental data. Our findings support a relatively soft nuclear equation of state, with a momentum-dependent self-consistent mean field.

Comments: 8 pages including 2 figures. MRST '99 conference proceedings, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada