ABSTRACT

Over the last decade one of the most active areas of research in nuclear physics has been the study of systems of nucleons in various dynamical situations. Heavy-ion collisions at beam energies in the range 30-150 MeV per nucleon, where subnucleaonic degrees of freedom can be considered as frozen, allow such systems to be studied in detail. Nuclear

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

chapter 4|38 pages

Basic experimental and analysis tools

chapter 5|31 pages

Reaction mechanisms

chapter 6|27 pages

Fast processes towards thermalization

chapter 9|10 pages

Epilogue

chapter 10|7 pages

Appendix