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Title: Elliptic flow in central collisions of deformed nuclei

Journal Article · · Physics of Atomic Nuclei
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  1. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics (Slovakia)

Nontrivial geometrical effects in relativistic central collisions of deformed nuclei are studied using a simple version of the optical Glauber model. For very small impact parameters, large centrality and eccentricity fluctuations are observed. In very high-multiplicity collisions of oblate nuclei, a significant fraction of events with nonzero elliptic-flow strength {upsilon}{sub 2} proportional to oblateness parameter -{beta}{sub 2} is predicted.

OSTI ID:
21404699
Journal Information:
Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Vol. 71, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1134/S1063778808090172; Copyright (c) 2008 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; ISSN 1063-7788
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English