Azimuthal correlation and collective behavior in nucleus-nucleus collisions

作者:Mali P*; Mukhopadhyay A; Sarkar S; Singh G
来源:Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 2015, 78(2): 258-267.
DOI:10.1134/S1063778815020210

摘要

Various flow effects of nuclear and hadronic origin are investigated in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Nuclear emulsion data collected from Kr-84 + Ag/Br interaction at an incident energy of 1.52 GeV per nucleon and from Si-28 + Ag/Br interaction at an incident energy of 14.5 GeV per nucleon are used in the investigation. The transverse momentum distribution and the flow angle analysis show that collective behavior, like a bounce-off effect of the projectile spectators and a sidesplash effect of the target spectators, are present in our event samples. From an azimuthal angle analysis of the data we also see a direct flow of the projectile fragments and of the produced charged particles. On the other hand, for both data samples the target fragments exhibit a reverse flow, while the projectile fragments exhibit an elliptic flow. Relevant flow parameters are measured.

  • 出版日期2015-3

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