Event simulations in a transport model for intermediate energy heavy ion collisions: Applications to multiplicity distributions

Abstract

We perform transport model calculations for central collisions of mass 120 on mass 120 at laboratory beam energy in the range 20 MeV/nucleon to 200 MeV/nucleon. A simplified yet accurate method allows calculation of fluctuations in systems much larger than what was considered feasible in a well-known and already existing model. The calculations produce clusters. The distribution of clusters is remarkably similar to that obtained in equilibrium statistical model.

6 pages, 5 figures, Accepted in Physical Review C