Collective Flow Observed in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

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H.-Å. Gustafsson · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

H.H. Gutbrod · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

B. W. Kolb · University of California, Berkeley

H. Löhner · University of California, Berkeley

Bernhard Ludewigt · University of California, Berkeley

A. M. Poskanzer · University of California, Berkeley

Tanya Renner

Abstract

The reactions Ca + Ca and Nb + Nb at 400 MeV/nucleon have been studied at the Bevalac using the "Plastic Ball" spectrometer. A global analysis of the events shows two nontrivial collective flow effects: the bounceoff of the projectile fragments, and the side-splash of the intermediate-rapidity fragments for the higher-multiplicity Nb + Nb events. Neither effect is seen in a knockon cascade calculation. A simulation with an event-generating statistical model has been done in order to extract the magnitudes of the effects.

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Nuclear physics research studies High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods

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Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 52, Issue 18, pp. 1590-1593

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.52.1590

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 43.76

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