%\subsection{Transition to pre-compound modeling \editor{Johannes Peter}}
In simulating light ion reactions, the initial state of the cascade is prepared
in the form of two nuclei, as described in the above section on the nuclear 
model.

The lighter of the collision partners is selected to be the projectile. The 
nucleons in the projectile are then entered, with position and momenta, into 
the initial state of the cascade. Note that before the first scattering of an 
individual nucleon, a projectile nucleon's Fermi-momentum is not taken into 
account in the tracking inside the target nucleus. The nucleon distribution 
inside the projectile nucleus is taken to be a representative distribution of 
its nucleons in configuration space, rather than an initial state in the sense 
of QMD. The Fermi momentum and the local field are taken into account in the 
calculation of the collision probabilities and final states of the binary 
collisions.
