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We investigate elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies. In doing this, we implement and use a lattice-Hamiltonian model of the nuclear interaction and we also study the effect of in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross…

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The azimuthal correlations between local flow planes at different (pseudo)rapidities ($\eta$) may reveal important details of the initial nuclear matter density distributions in heavy-ion collisions. Extensive experimental measurements of a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-09 Zhiwan Xu , Xiatong Wu , Caleb Sword , Gang Wang , Sergei A. Voloshin , Huan Zhong Huang

We propose a method to separate \Delta\eta-dependent and \Delta\eta-independent azimuthal correlations using two- and four-particle cumulants between pseudo-rapidity (\eta) bins in symmetric heavy-ion collisions. The \Delta\eta-independent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-10-10 Lingshan Xu , Li Yi , Daniel Kikola , Joshua Konzer , Fuqiang Wang , Wei Xie

Recent data from the NA49 experiment on directed and elliptic flow for Pb+Pb reactions at CERN-SPS are compared to calculations with a hadron-string transport model, the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hannah Petersen , Qingfeng Li , Xianglei Zhu , Marcus Bleicher

We present a new method for analyzing directed and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions. Unlike standard methods, it separates the contribution of flow to azimuthal correlations from contributions due to other effects. The separation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Borghini , Phuong Mai Dinh , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Particles with strange quark content produced in the system 1.93 AGeV $^{58}$Ni on $^{58}$Ni have been investigated at GSI Darmstadt with the FOPI detector system. The correlation of these produced particles was analyzed with respect to the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 J. L. Ritman , N. Herrmann , D. Best , the FOPI collaboration

A model with non-uniform flow in the longitudinal direction is proposed for the relativistic heavy-ion collisions and compared with the 14.6 A GeV/c Si-Al and 10.8 A GeV/c Au-Au collision data. The stronger influence of transparency on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shengqin FENG , Feng LIU , Lianshou LIU

A consistent picture of the Au+Au and D+Au, s^1/2 = 200 A GeV measurements at RHIC obtained with the PHENIX, STAR, PHOBOS and BRAHMS detectors including both the rapidity and transverse momentum spectra was previously developed with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. E. Kahana , S. H. Kahana

Since its discovery, global polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperon in heavy-ion collisions has been firmly established and is widely attributed to the large vorticity generated in the rotating quark-gluon plasma. In contrast, nearly fifty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Feng Liu , Zhoudunming Tu

The influence of the chiral mean field on the collective motion of kaons in relativistic heavy ion reactions at SIS energies is investigated. We consider three types of collective motion, i.e. the transverse flow, the out-of-plane flow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Fuchs , Amand Faessler , Z. S. Wang , T. Gross-Boelting

We discuss the torque effect in the initial fireball formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, manifesting itself, on the event-by-event basis, in a relative angle between the principal axes of the transverse momentum distributions in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Wojciech Broniowski , Piotr Bozek , Joao Moreira

In heavy ion reactions at energies around 1-2 AGeV the measured $K^-$ yields appear rather high as compared to pp collisions as shown by the KaoS collaboration. Employing IQMD simulations, we show that this is caused by the fact that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Ch. Hartnack , H. Oeschler , J. Aichelin

A significant difference in the elliptic flow $v_2$ for particles and their corresponding antiparticles, which is more pronounced for baryons and anti-baryons, was observed in the STAR experiment during the Beam Energy Scan I (BES-I) at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Shuai Zhou , Shusu Shi

Producing kaon mesons in heavy-ion collisions at beam energies below their threshold energy is an important way to investigate the properties of dense nuclear matter. In this study, based on the newly updated version of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-13 Yushan Du , Yongjia Wang , Qingfeng Li , Ling Liu

We study the beam energy dependence of equilibration process and space-time characteristics of participant and spectator matter. For this, we simulated the semi-central collisions of $^{40}Ca+ ^{40}Ca$ at incident energies of 400, 600 and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-05 Yogesh K. Vermani , Mandeep Kaur

We report the results of $v_1$ and $dv_1/dy$ near mid-rapidity for $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $K^{\pm}$, $K_s^0$ and $\phi$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27 and 39~GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-03-08 Subhash Singha

This study presents a detailed analysis of longitudinal flow decorrelations in light ion collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider(LHC) energies for the first time. We compare different theoretical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Hadi Mehrabpour , Abhisek Saha

Using the large acceptance Time Projection Chamber of experiment E895 at Brookhaven, measurements of collective sideward flow in Au + Au collisions at beam energies of 2, 4, 6 and 8A GeV are presented in the form of in-plane transverse…

Recent measurements of particle correlations and the spectra of hadrons at both RHIC and the LHC are suggestive of hydrodynamic behavior in very small collision systems (p+Pb, d+Au and p+p collisions). The measurements are both…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-28 Anne M. Sickles

We present a systematic investigation of the transverse-momentum differential radial flow fluctuations observable $v_0(p_T)$ in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at top RHIC ($\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}{\,=\,}200$ GeV) and LHC…

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