Selected aspects of the classical molecular dynamics of N particles in strong interaction

Selected results of a classical simulation of N particles in strong interaction are presented. The static properties of such classical systems are qualitatively similar to the known properties of atomic nuclei. The simulations of collisions show that all observed reaction mechanisms in nucleus-nucleus collisions are present in this numerical simulation. The first studies of such collisions are in qualitative agreement with experimental observations. This simulation could shed new light on energy deposition in heavy ion collisions: the excitation energy of each cluster is found to be lower than the energy of the least bound particle in the cluster. Finally, the similarities of fragmentation pattern with those obtained with a statistical code indicate that an unambiguous link can be established between the statistical and the dynamical descriptions of reaction mechanisms