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Microscopic study of energy and centrality dependence of transverse collective flow in heavy-ion collisions | L.V. Bravina
; Amand Faessler
; C. Fuchs
; E.E. Zabrodin
; | Date: |
17 Feb 2000 | Journal: | Phys.Rev. C61 (2000) 064902 | Subject: | nucl-th hep-ph nucl-ex | Affiliation: | 1,2), Amand Faessler , C. Fuchs , E.E. Zabrodin (1,2) (1-Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Tuebingen; 2-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University | Abstract: | The centrality dependence of directed and elliptic flow in light and heavy systems of colliding nuclei is studied within two microscopic transport models at energies from 1 AGeV to 160 A GeV. The pion directed flow has negative slope in the midrapidity range irrespective of bombarding energy and mass number of the colliding ions. In contrast, the directed flow of nucleons vanishes and even develops antiflow in the midrapidity range in (semi)peripheral collisions at energies around 11.6 A GeV and higher. The origin of the disappearance of flow is linked to nuclear shadowing. Since the effect is stronger for a light system, it can be distinguished from the similar phenomenon caused by the quark-gluon plasma formation. In the latter case the disappearance of the flow due to the softening of the equation of state should be most pronounced in collisions of heavy ions. The centrality dependence of the elliptic flow shows that the maximum in the distribution is shifted to very peripheral events with rising incident energy, in accord with experimental data. This is an indication of the transition from baryonic to mesonic degrees of freedom in hot hadronic matter. | Source: | arXiv, nucl-th/0002045 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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