Abstract
Excitations of the atomic shell in heavy-ion collisions are influenced by the presence of a nuclear reaction. In the present Rapid Communication we point out the equivalence between a semiclassical description based on the nuclear autocorrelation function with an earlier model which employs a distribution of reaction times . For the example of U+U collisions, results of coupled-channel calculations for positron creation and -hole excitations are discussed for two schematic reaction models.
- Received 23 June 1983
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.28.2558
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