XIIIth International Symposium on Nuclear Symmetry Energy (NuSym25)

Cluster correlations in heavy-ion collision simulations

8 Sept 2025, 15:50

30m

Auditorium (8F) (Integrated Innovation Building (IIB), RIKEN Kobe Campus)

2. Heavy-ion collision experiments and transport model simulations NuSym Scientific Session

Speaker

Pawel Danielewicz (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)

Description

Practical treatments of light cluster correlations in heavy-ion collision simulations and the clusters' potential in learning about bulk nuclear properties are reviewed. The difficulty in describing clusters in semiclassical approaches stems from the discrete nature of the clusters' spectra. The opportunity that the clusters represent, to learn about bulk nuclear properties, stems from a tighter relation of cluster velocity to production location than for nucleons or pions.

Presentation materials

tkko25.pdf