Collective Flow Observed in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
- 30 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 52 (18), 1590-1593
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.1590
Abstract
The reactions Ca + Ca and Nb + Nb at 400 MeV/nucleon have been studied at the Bevalac using the "Plastic Ball" spectrometer. A global analysis of the events shows two nontrivial collective flow effects: the bounceoff of the projectile fragments, and the side-splash of the intermediate-rapidity fragments for the higher-multiplicity Nb + Nb events. Neither effect is seen in a knockon cascade calculation. A simulation with an event-generating statistical model has been done in order to extract the magnitudes of the effects.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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