Dependence on beam energy and nuclear equation of state of anisotropic flow and particle production in low-energy heavy-ion collisions

2021/02/28 by Sumit Kumar Kundu, Y. Bailung, Yoshini Bailung +4
Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Atomic physics #Beam (structure) #Beam energy #Energy (signal processing) #Energy flow #Equation of state #Flow (mathematics) #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Ion beam #Mechanics #Nuclear physics #Particle (ecology) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Production (economics) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Thermodynamics #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.104.024907

published as Phys. Rev. C 104, 024907 (2021) · 14 pages, 12 figures

arxiv created 2021/08/04 · openalex publication_date 2021/08/17 · arxiv updated 2021/08/25 · openalex created_date 2021/08/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We analyze various flow coefficients of anisotropic momentum distribution of final state particles in mid-central (b=5--9\phantom\rule0.16em0exfm) Au\phantom\rule4pt0ex+\phantom\rule4pt0exAu collisions in the beam energy range E_Lab=1A--158A GeV. Different variants of the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) model, namely the pure transport (cascade) mode and the hybrid mode, are employed for this investigation. In the hybrid UrQMD model, the ideal hydrodynamical evolution is integrated with the pure transport calculation for description of the evolution of the fireball. We opt for the different available equations of state (EoS) replicating the hadronic as well as partonic degrees of freedom together with possible phase transitions, viz., hadron gas, chiral + deconfinement EoS, and bag model EoS, to investigate their effect on the properties of the final state particles. We also attempt to gain insights about the dynamics of the medium by studying different features of particle production such as particle ratios and net-proton rapidity distribution. The results and conclusions drawn here would be useful to understand the response of various observables to the underlying physics of the model as well as to make comparisons with the upcoming measurements of the future experiments at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) and the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA).

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