Elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions near the balance energy Academic Article

abstract

• The proton elliptic flow in collisions of 48Ca on 48Ca at energies from 30 to 100 MeV/nucleon is studied in an isospin-dependent transport model. With increasing incident energy, the elliptic flow shows a transition from positive to negative flow. Its magnitude depends on both the nuclear equation of state (EOS) and the nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section. Different elliptic flows are obtained for a stiff EOS with free nucleon-nucleon cross sections and a soft EOS with reduced nucleon-nucleon cross sections, although both lead to vanishing in-plane transverse flow at the same balance energy. 1999 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Ko, Che-Ming

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Zheng, Y. M., Ko, C. M., Li, B. A., & Zhang, B.

citation count

• 74

complete list of authors

• Zheng, YM||Ko, CM||Li, BA||Zhang, B

publication date

• September 1999

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5106 Nuclear And Plasma Physics
• 5110 Synchrotrons And Accelerators

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2534

start page

• 2534

end page

• 2536

volume

• 83

issue

• 13

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1103%2Fphysrevlett.83.2534