Collective Flow from the Intranuclear Cascade Model
Nuclear Theory
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The phenomenon of collective flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied using the hadronic cascade model ARC. Direct comparison is made to data gathered at the Bevalac, for Au+Au at GeV/c. In contrast to the standard lore about the cascade model, collective flow is well described quantitatively without the need for explicit mean field terms to simulate the nuclear equation of state. Pion collective flow is in the opposite direction to nucleon flow as is that of anti-nucleons and other produced particles. Pion and nucleon flow are predicted at AGS energies also, where, in light of the higher baryon densities achieved, we speculate that equation of state effects may be observable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9405017,
title = {Collective Flow from the Intranuclear Cascade Model},
author = {David E. Kahana and Declan Keane and Yang Pang and Tom Schlagel and Shan Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9405017},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 2 figures included