%0 Journal Article %T Deuterons and space-momentum correlations in high energy nuclear collisions %A B. Monreal %A S. A. Bass %A M. Bleicher %A S. Esumi %A W. Greiner %A Q. Li %A H. Liu %A W. J. Llope %A R. Mattiello %A S. Panitkin %A I. Sakrejda %A R. Snellings %A H. Sorge %A C. Spieles %A H. St£¿cker %A J. Thomas %A S. Voloshin %A F. Wang %A N. Xu %J Physics %D 1999 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevC.60.031901 %X Using a microscopic transport model together with a coalescence after-burner, we study the formation of deuterons in Au + Au central collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200 AGeV$. It is found that the deuteron transverse momentum distributions are strongly affected by the nucleon space-momentum correlations, at the moment of freeze-out, which are mostly determined by the number of rescatterings. This feature is useful for studying collision dynamics at ultrarelativistic energies. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9904080v2