Antiflow of Nucleons at the Softest Point of the EoS

Preprint

3 August 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.nucl-th/9908010

Abstract

We investigate flow in semi-peripheral nuclear collisions at AGS and SPS energies within macroscopic as well as microscopic transport models. The hot and dense zone assumes the shape of an ellipsoid which is tilted by an angle Theta with respect to the beam axis. If matter is close to the softest point of the equation of state, this ellipsoid expands predominantly orthogonal to the direction given by Theta. This antiflow component is responsible for the previously predicted reduction of the directed transverse momentum around the softest point of the equation of state.

Keywords

PERIPHERAL NUCLEAR
TILTED BY AN ANGLE
NUCLEAR COLLISIONS
INVESTIGATE FLOW
SEMI PERIPHERAL
SOFTEST POINT
ELLIPSOID
NUCLEONS
ANTIFLOW

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Version 1, 1999-08-03, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review C, 61 (2), 024909.

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