Transport phenomena in dissipative heavy-ion collisions: the one-body dissipation approach

Abstract

As the study of Brownian movement is the key to the understanding of all dissipative phenomena, the author uses it to introduce the concepts which are then made use of in a specific dissipative model. The author discusses the 'one-body dissipation model' in its richness of phenomena and compares its predictions to measured data. Special attention is paid to the non-equilibrium relation between friction (or mobility) and diffusion.