Deuterons and flow: At intermediate AGS energies

Conference · Sat Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996

OSTI ID:286287

Kahana, D E ^[1]; Pang, Y ^[2]; Kahana, S H ^[2]

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1. State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States)
2. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)

A quantitative model, based on hadronic physics and Monte Carlo cascading is applied to heavy ion collisions at BNL-AGS and BEVALAC energies. The model was found to be in excellent agreement with particle spectra where data previously existed, for Si beams, and was able to successfully predict the spectra where data was initially absent, for Au beams. For Si + Au collisions baryon densities of three or four times the normal nuclear matter density ({rho}{sub 0}) are seen in the theory, while for Au + Au collisions, matter at densities up to 10 {rho}{sub 0} is anticipated. The possibility that unusual states of matter may be created in the Au beams and potential signatures for its observation, in particular deuterons and collective flow, are considered.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States); State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Sloan (Alfred P.) Foundation, New York, NY (United States); Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn (Germany)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016; FG02-93ER40768; FG02-92ER40699
• OSTI ID: 286287
• Report Number(s): BNL--63237; CONF-9605209--1; ON: DE96013476
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
BROOKHAVEN AGS
DETECTION
DEUTERONS
GEV RANGE
GOLD 197 REACTIONS
GOLD 197 TARGET
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
NUCLEAR MATTER
NUCLEAR MODELS
NUCLEAR REACTION YIELD
PARTICLE RAPIDITY
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUARK MATTER
SILICON
SPALLATION