Over the last decade one of the most active areas
of research in nuclear physics has been the study
of systems of nucleons in various dynamical
situations. Heavy-ion collisions at beam energies
in the range 30-150 MeV per nucleon, where
subnucleaonic degrees of freedom can be
considered as frozen, allow such systems to be
studied in detail. This book summarises our
current understanding of this branch of physics.
The authors' approach is to follow through time
the course of typical heavy-ion collisions, and to
discuss at each stage of the collisions, our
experimental and theoretical understanding. In
this way a clear picture of the physics can be
presented.
