Microscopic study of energy and centrality dependence of transverse collective flow in heavy-ion collisions

Details Microscopic study of energy and centrality dependence of transverse collective flow in heavy-ion collisions Microscopic study of energy and centrality dependence of transverse collective flow in heavy-ion collisions

2000-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0002045v1

Phys.Rev. C61 (2000) 064902

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

30 pages incl. 17 figures, to be published in the Physical Review C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.61.064902

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.

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