Collective flow as a probe of heavy-ion reaction dynamics

✍ Scribed by T.C. Awes

• Book ID: 104336741
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 666 KB
• Volume: 630
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(97)00789-6

✦ Synopsis

Collective flow of nuclear matter probes the dynamics of heavy-ion reactions and can provide information about the nuclear-matter equation of state. In particular, the incident-energy dependence of collective flow may be a sensitive means to deduce the existence of a quark-gluon plasma phase in the equation of state. Collective-flow measurements from 30 A MeV to 200 A GeV incident energies are briefly reviewed. Preliminary results on collective flow from the WA98 experiment at the CERN SPS are presented.