Critical scattering in heavy ion reactions

Heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies are mostly described by the VUU equations. Using methods of quantum statistics we derive a useful relation between the width of s.p. states and the density — density correlation function. Near the point of instability from this relation there follows the increase of the collision integral and enhanced equilibration.The author thanks Yu. Kalinovsky, R. Nazmitdinov and M. Di Toro for valuable discussions.