Ionization and pair creation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 47 (1) , 215-228
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.47.215
Abstract
Ionization, pair creation, and electron excitations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are investigated in the framework of the coupled-channel formalism. Collisions between heavy projectiles and are considered for various bombarding energies in the region E=500 up to 2000 MeV/u. Useful symmetry relations for the matrix elements are derived and the influence of gauge transformations onto the coupled-channel equations is explored.
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