Published April 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Collective flows in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at AGS and SPS energies

  • 1. Div. of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan)
  • 2. Nuclear Data Center, Dept. of Nuclear Energy System, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Ibaraki (Japan)
  • 3. Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (India)
  • 4. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, 60325 Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Description

Proton collective flows in heavy-ion collisions from AGS ((2-11) A GeV) to SPS ((40, 158) A GeV) energies are investigated in a nonequilibrium transport model with nuclear mean-field (MF). Sideward (px), directed v1, and elliptic v2 flows are systematically studied with different assumptions on the nuclear equation of state (EoS). We find that momentum dependence in the nuclear MF is important for understanding the proton collective flows at AGS and SPS energies. Calculated results with momentum-dependent MF qualitatively reproduce the experimental data of proton sideward, directed, and elliptic flows in an incident energy range of (2-158) A GeV. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Pramana
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 797-807
CODEN
PRAMCI

Conference

Title
DAE-BRNS workshop on hadron physics
Dates
7-17 Mar 2005
Place
Puri (India)

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