Collective flow by the azimuthal correlation of projectile fragments in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.49.3320· OSTI ID:7307966

Singh, G; Jain, P L ^[1]

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1. High Energy Experimental Laboratory, Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260 (United States)

An analysis that does not require the determination of reaction plane on an event-by-event basis, and involves only azimuthal correlation function of the projectile fragment pairs, has been employed to measure the collective flow of nuclear matter. Using this technique, we study the flow of projectile fragments of charge [ital Z][ge]2 produced in [sup 197]Au induced-emulsion reactions at 10.6[ital A] GeV. The collective flow is observed to be the most pronounced in semicentral collisions. The results are compared with those of [sup 28]Si at 14.5[ital A] GeV, [sup 238]U at 0.96[ital A] GeV, [sup 84]Kr at 1.52[ital A] GeV, and [sup 56]Fe at 1.7[ital A] GeV.

• DOE Contract Number: FG02-90ER40566
• OSTI ID: 7307966
• Journal Information: Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States), Vol. 49:6; ISSN 0556-2813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
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CORRELATIONS
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RELATIVISTIC RANGE
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
ENERGY RANGE
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATTER
NUCLEAR MODELS
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