Eur. Phys. J. A (2006) 30: 109-120
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10110-1

Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of Freedom

Dynamical models for fragment formation

¹ Department of Physics, Tohoku University, 980-8578, Sendai, Japan
² Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

^* e-mail: ono@nucl.phys.tohoku.ac.jp

Received: 21 June 2006
Accepted: 26 July 2006
Published online: 17 October 2006

Abstract

The various dynamical models for fragment formation in nuclear collisions are discussed in order to bring out their relative advantages and shortcomings. After discussing the general requirements for dynamical models that aim to describe fragment formation, we consider the various mean-field models that incorporate fluctuations and then turn to models based on molecular dynamics.