Published August 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Disappearance of flow and the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section

Creators

  • 1. Cyclotron Institute, Texas A ampersand M University, College Station, Texas 77843 (United States)

Description

Based on a Boltzmann equation, the transverse momentum distributions are calculated for central 40Ar+51V collisions with an aim to determine the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section. Indeed, the calculations suggest that measurements of the energy of balance, Ebal, can provide a powerful tool to pin down the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section. Within our improved Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) model, the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section is narrowed down to σNN∼30--40 mb, for the first time, using recent experimental data

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
46
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. R389-R392.
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN