Mass Dependence of Directed Collective Flow

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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-28-1996

Publication Source

Physical Review Letters

Volume Number

77

Issue Number

18

First Page

3739

Last Page

3742

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

Sidewards directed fragment flow has been extracted for 84Kr+197Au collisions at E/A=200MeV, using techniques that are free of reaction plane dispersion. The fragment flow per nucleon increases with mass, following a thermal or coalescencelike behavior, and attains roughly constant limiting values at 4≤A≤12. Comparisons of the impact parameter dependences of the measured coalescence-invariant proton flow to Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck calculations clearly favor a momentum dependent nuclear mean field.

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