Note: Front Cover -- Theoretical Approaches of Heavy Ion Reaction Mechanisms -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. FISSION AT FINITE TEMPERATURE: IS KRAMERS' DESCRIPTION ADEQUATE? -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A MODERN MICROSCOPIC VIEW -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF COLLECTIVE DYNAMICS IN LOW ENERGY FISSION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE MICROSCOPIC METHOD -- 3. RESULTS FOR < -- Q20> -- -< -- Q30> -- DEFORMATIONS -- 4. THE SCISSION REGION -- 5. DYNAMICAL DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTIVE MOTION BEYOND THE SADDLE POINT -- 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. EFFECTS OF TRANSIENTS ON PARTICLE EMISSION PRIOR TO FISSION IN A TRANSPORT DESCRIPTION OF THE FISSION PROCESS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE DIFFUSION MODEL-BASIC DEFINITIONS. ANALYTIC APPROXIMATIONS -- 4. EFFECTS OF TRANSIENTS ON NEUTRON MULTIPLICITIES -- 5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ADIABATIC TIME-DEPENDENT HARTREE-FOCK METHOD -- 1. THE ADIABATIC TIME-DEPENDENT HARTREE-FOCK FORMALISM (ATDHF) -- 2. APPLICATIONS -- 3. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5. MASS DISPERSIONS IN A TIME-DEPENDENT MEAN-FIELD APPROACH -- 1. NAIVE AND LESS NAIVE MEAN-FIELD THEORIES -- 2. TIME-DEPENDENT VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR A STATE AND AN OBSERVABLE -- 3. VARIATIONAL EVALUATION OF FLUCTUATIONS -- 4. THEORETICAL FEATURES OF THE APPROXIMATE EXPRESSION FOR FLUCTUATIONS -- 5. THE LIPKIN-MESHKOV-GLICK MODEL -- 6. A MASS TRANSFER CALCULATION -- 7. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6. MEAN-FIELD DESCRIPTION OF NUCLEI AT HIGH TEMPERATURE -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MEAN-FIELD CALCULATIONS OF HIGHLY EXCITED NUCLEI -- 3. STABILITY OF HOT NUCLEI -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES. , CHAPTER 7. FAST NUCLEON EMISSION : A PROBE OF THE HEAVY ION REACTIONS AT ENERGIES BELOW 100 MeV/u -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SKETCH OF THE VARIOUS THEORETICAL APPROACHES -- 3. THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION IN HEAVY-ION REACTIONS -- 4. A LINEARIZED BOLTZMANN EQUATION -- 5. PRODUCTION AND EJECTION OF FAST NUCLEONS -- 6. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8. KNOCK OUT FOR SUBTHRESHOLD PION PRODUCTION -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTS AND MODELS -- 3. THE KNOCK-OUT N-N SINGLE COLLISION MODEL -- 4. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9. A FEEDBACK PROCESS CONTROLLING ENERGY PARTITION AND MASS EXCHANGE BETWEEN HEAVY IONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10. OPEN QUESTIONS: THERMALIZATION AND FLOW, KINETIC OR POTENTIAL DRIVEN? -- 1. TWO MAJOR PHYSICAL QUESTIONS STILL OPEN FOR NUCLEAR HEAVY-ION PHYSICS -- 2. STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF (N,Z) DISTRIBUTIONS -- 3. DISCREPANCIES WITH STATISTICAL THEORIES MAY ALLOW DEEPER PHYSICAL PROGRESS -- 4. DOUBLE-WELL MODEL OF 1D FLOW -- 5. DEPENDENCE OF σ2 (t) UPON CENTRAL DENSITY AND KINETIC PRESSURE -- 6. STRONG DEPENDENCE ON RELATIVE KINETIC ENERGY -- 7. WEAK DEPENDENCE ON POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE, V0 -- 8. FINITE DRIFT FOUND FOR ZERO CHEMICAL POTENTIAL DRIVING FORCE -- 9. SIMULATED PROTONS DRIFT INTO AN N-EXCESSIVE NUCLEUS IN CONTRADICTION TO STATISTICAL DRIVING FORCES -- 10. EXTRAPOLATION TO SPHERICAL NUCLEI: LOCI OF KINETIC EQUILIBRIA -- 11. EQUILIBRIA CHANNELLED (N,Z) FLOW? -- 12. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. DYNAMICS OF FISSION AND HEAVY ION REACTIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MACROSCOPIC-MICROSCOPIC METHOD -- 3. FISSION -- 4. HEAVY ION REACTIONS -- 5. SADDLE-TO-SCISSION TIME -- 6. OUTLOOK -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12. ELASTOPLASTICITY OF FINITE FERMI SYSTEMS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DISSIPATIVE DIABATIC DYNAMICS (DDD), A THEORY OF NUCLEAR ELASTOPLASTICITY. , 3. APPLICATIONS -- 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13. NUCLEAR FOG -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PROPERTIES OF A NUCLEAR GAS-LIQUID MIXTURE -- 3. GAS-LIQUID MIXTURE IN NUCLEAR COLLISIONS -- 4. COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14. MACROSCOPIC TREATMENT OF NUCLEAR DYNAMICS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. QUALITATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS REACTIONS -- 3. RECTILINEAR CROSS-SECTION PLOTS -- 4. THE EXTRA-PUSH FORMULAE -- 5. NUMERICAL. STUDIES OF REACTION DYNAMICS -- 6. THE DISSIPATIVE RESISTANCE AGAINST CHANGES IN MASS ASYMMETRY -- 7. "FERMI JETS" AND THE WINDOW FORMULA -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15. PARTICLE EXCHANGE AS THE DISSIPATIVE MECHANISM IN NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS COLLISIONS -- 1. THE PARTICLE EXCHANGE MODEL -- 2. DISSIPATIVE PHENOMENA -- 3. FINAL REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16. FRICTION, IMAGINARY POTENTIAL AND NUCLEON JETTING CALCULATED FROM NUCLEON CURRENTS IN SEMI-INFINITE NUCLEAR MATTER -- 1. NUCLEON CURRENTS BETWEEN SLABS OF NUCLEAR MATTER: THE PHYSICAL IDEAS -- 2. NUCLEON CURRENTS BETWEEN SLABS OF NUCLEAR MATTER: THE RESULTS -- 3. CONNECTION WITH NUCLEI AND FRICTION -- 4. CONNECTION TO THE IMAGINARY PART OF THE HEAVY IONS OPTICAL POTENTIAL -- 5. NUCLEON JETTING -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17. DYNAMICS OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM ACCUMULATION IN DAMPED NUCLEAR REACTIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EQUATIONS OF MOTION -- 3. EQUILIBRIUM -- 4. EVOLUTION IN A SYMMETRIC DISPHERE -- 5. ILLUSTRATIVE RESULTS -- 6. COMPARISON TO EXPERIMENT -- 7. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 18. MICROSCOPIC APPROACH TO REAL AND IMAGINARY PART OF THE HEAVY ION POTENTIAL -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION -- 3. RESULTS -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19. TIME-INDEPENDENT WAVE-PACKET THEORY OF COLLISIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE WAVE PACKET REPRESENTATION. , 3. VARIATIONAL ESTIMATE OF THE AMPLITUDE -- 4. PRELIMINARY RESULTS, DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- References -- CHAPTER 20. PIONIC BREMSSTRAHLUNG IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 21. SINGLE-PARTICLE AND COLLECTIVE ASPECTS OF THE ABSORPTIVE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY ION REACTIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE ABSORPTIVE POTENTIAL DUE TO TRANSFER PROCESSES -- 3. APPLICATIONS -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 22. NUCLEAR PHYSICS WITH HEAVY IONS - MANY BODY SYSTEMS WITH SPECIFIC FLAVOUR -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DISSIPATION OF ENERGY, QUALITATIVE CONSIDERATIONS FOR LOW ENERGIES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 23. MULTIFRAGMENTATION AND EVAPORATION: TWO COMPETING PROCESSES IN INTERMEDIATE ENERGY NUCLEAR COLLISIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ANALYSIS OF THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA -- 3. A SIMPLE MODEL FOR MULTIFRAGMENTATION-EVAPORATION -- 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 24. HYDRODYNAMICS OF A QUARK-GLUON PLASMA -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE TRANSITION TO THE QUARK-GLUON PLASMA -- 3. HOW TO REACH HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES -- 4. SPACE-TIKE PICTURE OF CENTRAL COLLISIONS -- 5. HYDRODYNAMICS -- 6. DYNAMICAL QUARK-HADRON PHASE TRANSITION -- 7. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 25. COLLECTIVE FLOW IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS: A CONFIRMATION OF HYDRODYNAMICS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE NUCLEAR FLUID DYNAMICAL MODEL -- 3. FLOW TENSOR ANALYSIS IN 4x EXCLUSIVE EVENT-BY-EVENT STUDIES -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- References -- CHAPTER 26. REVIEW OF THE INTRANUCLEAR CASCADE MODEL FOR HEAVY ION REACTIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- 3. THE SIMULATION METHODS -- 4. THE INITIAL NUCLEON DENSITY AND MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS -- 5. THE PAULI PRINCIPLE -- 6. PION AND KAON PRODUCTION -- 7. COMPOSITE PARTICLE PRODUCTION -- 8. DEEXCITATION OF THE RESIDUAL (SPECTATOR) NUCLEI -- 9. EXTENSION OF THE INC MODEL TO HIGHER ENERGIES. , 10. EXTENSION TO LOWER ENERGIES -- 11. SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 27. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 1. HEAVY ION REACTIONS (AND NUCLEAR FISSION) AT LOW ENERGIES -- 2. HEAVY ION REACTIONS AT INTERMEDIATE ENERGIES -- 3. HEAVY ION REACTIONS AT HIGH ENERGIES -- REFERENCES -- LIST OF SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS -- LIST OF PARTICIPANTS -- AUTHOR INDEX.