High energy collisions between heavy nuclei

Neglecting Coulomb effects a very simple analytical result for nucleus-nucleus elastic scattering is derived in an optical limit of the Glauber approximation which has the property that it does not diverge at large momentum transfers when the center-of-mass correlation function is retained and is more accurate and easier to apply than the commonly used expressions which involve numerical integrations. A corresponding analytical expression for the elastic scattering amplitude which includes the Coulomb effects arising from point charge incident and target nuclei is then derived. (Auth.)