Stopping Power and Collective Flow of Nuclear Matter in the Reaction Ar+Pb at 0.8 GeV/u
- 20 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (8) , 763-766
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.763
Abstract
Charged-particle exclusive data for Ar+Pb collisions at 0.772 GeV/u are analyzed in terms of collective variables for the event shapes in momentum space. Semicentral collisions lead to sidewards flow whereas nearly head-on collisions have spherical shapes in the c.m. frame, resulting from complete stopping of projectile motion. The hydrodynamical model predictions agree qualitatively with the data whereas the standard cascade model disagrees, lacking in stopping power and collective flow.Keywords
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