Study of stability of nuclei flow and multifragmentation in heavy ion collisions
The aim of the present thesis is to theoretically study the multifragmentation as well as its related phenomena like nuclear flow, for hot and dense nuclear matter formed in the symmetric as well as asymmetric heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies. The Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD) [1] model is used for to generate the phase-space of nucleons. The phase-space is then, analyzed using different clusterization algorithms. The QMD model is based on a molecular dynamic picture where nucleons interact via two and three-body interactions. The QMD approach treats the nucleons as Gaussian wave packets. The nucleons propagate according to the classical equations of motion: