2017/08/01 by Chen-Chen Guo, Wan-Bing He, Yu-Gang Ma · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cluster (spacecraft) #Collision #Energy (signal processing) #Energy flow #Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope #Flow (mathematics) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear physics research studies #Scientific Research and Discoveries #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0256-307x/34/9/092101
published as CHIN. PHYS. LETT. Vol. 34, No. 9 (2017) 092101 · 5 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2017/08/01 · openalex created_date 2017/09/15 · arxiv created 2018/03/21 · arxiv updated 2018/03/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The main purpose of the present work is to discuss whether or not the collective flows in heavy-ion collision at the Fermi energy can be taken as a tool to investigate the cluster configuration in light nuclei. In practice, within an extended quantum molecular dynamics model, four α-clustering (linear chain, kite, square and tetrahedron) configurations of 16 O are employed in the initialization, 16 O+ 16 O around the Fermi energy (40–60 MeV/nucleon) with impact parameter 1–3 fm are simulated, and the directed and elliptic flows are analyzed. It is found that collective flows are influenced by the different α-clustering configurations, and the directed flow of free protons is more sensitive to the initial cluster configuration than the elliptic flow. Nuclear reaction at the Fermi energy can be taken as a useful way to study cluster configuration in light nuclei.