Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
1999-06-24
Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 2534-2536
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
6 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2534
The proton elliptic flow in collisions of Ca on Ca at energies from 30 to 100 MeV/nucleon is studied in an isospin-dependent transport model. With increasing incident energy, the elliptic flow shows a transition from positive to negative flow. Its magnitude depends on both the nuclear equation of state (EOS) and the nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section. Different elliptic flows are obtained for a stiff EOS with free nucleon-nucleon cross sections and a soft EOS with reduced nucleon-nucleon cross sections, although both lead to vanishing in-plane transverse flow at the same balance energy. The study of both in-plane and elliptic flows at intermediate energies thus provides a means to extract simultaneously the information on the nuclear equation of state and the nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section in medium.
Ko Che Ming
Li Bao-An
Zhang Bin
Zheng Yu-Ming
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