Published February 24, 1997 | Version v1
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Directed collective flow and azimuthal distributions in 36Ar+27Al collisions from 55 to 95 MeV/u

Description

A 4π charged particle detector array with a low velocity threshold has been used to detect the products from reactions induced by 36Ar on 27Al at energies ranging from 55 to 95 MeV/u. Well characterized events were selected and sorted as a function of the impact parameter. Two methods were used for sorting these events with respect to their impact parameters and three methods were compared to determine the reaction plane. The transverse momentum analysis has been found to be the best method to extract the direction of the reaction plane for this system and for the experimental set-up used here. The energy of vanishing flow for central collisions has been found to be around 90-95 MeV/u. The azimuthal distributions of mid-rapidity particles exhibit a preferential in-plane emission and no squeeze-out effect. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
614
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 261-288.
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL