Differential Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions at Balance Energies
- 21 June 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 82 (25) , 5004-5007
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.82.5004
Abstract
A strong differential transverse collective flow is predicted for the first time to occur in heavy-ion collisions at balance energies. We also give a novel explanation for the disappearance of the total transverse collective flow at the balance energies. It is further shown that the differential flow especially at high transverse momenta is a useful microscope capable of resolving the balance energy's dual sensitivity to both the nuclear equation of state and in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections in the reaction dynamics.Comment: Phys. Rev. Lett. (1999) in presKeywords
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