Equilibration within a semiclassical off-shell transport approach

Equilibration times for nuclear matter configurations – modelling intermediate and high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions – are evaluated within the semiclassical off-shell transport approach developed recently. The transport equations are solved for a finite box in coordinate space employing periodic boundary conditions. The off-shell transport model is shown to give proper off-shell equilibrium distributions in the limit $t\to \mathrm{\infty }$ for the nucleon and $\mathrm{\Delta }$-resonance spectral functions. We find that equilibration times within the off-shell approach are only slightly enhanced as compared to the on-shell limit for the momentum configurations considered.