Asymptotic channels and gauge transformations of the time-dependent Dirac equation for extremely relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 346-357

  Wells, J C ^a,b   Segev, B ^b   Eichler, J ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

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EID: 0009391599     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.346     Document Type: Article

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