A. Smerzi

TL;DR: The effect of one- and two-body dissipation on the damping of giant dipole resonances (GDR's) is studied in a semiclassical approach solving a Vlasov equation with a collision relaxation time and a dramatic increase of the widths due to the enhancement of nucleon-nucleon ({ital NN}) collisions.

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that the nuclear system enters a dynamical instability region and fragments are directly produced from the growing of fluctuations, and some hints towards a fully dynamical description of fragment production are finally discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the quenching of photon decays in giant dipole resonances (GDR) at high excitation energy (E ∗ ) is explained as due to the competition between γ-ray and particle emission.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel reaction mechanism for semi-peripheral heavy ion collisions is discussed, due to new features of the nuclear dynamics in the overlapping region, and the onset of new neck instabilities coupled to an increasing amount of dynamical fluctuations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general method to evaluate small-amplitude fluctuations of the semiclassical one-body Wigner function is presented both in the equilibrium and nonequilibrium framework.