FLUCTUATIONS IN ONE-BODY DYNAMICS

With a view towards nuclear dynamics at intermediate energies, we develop a transport treatment for systems whose reduced one-body phase-space density exhibits a markovian time evolution. A moment expansion of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation leads to closed equations for the temporal evolution of the ensemble average of the phase-space occupancy f(r, p) and its correlation function. The general properties of the associated relaxation processes are illustrated and the utility of the formulation for studies of nuclear collisions is discussed. © 1990.