Directed and Elliptic Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions
- Received Date: 2000-12-22
- Accepted Date: 1900-01-01
- Available Online: 2001-12-05
Abstract: The directed and elliptic flow in collisions of 40Ca+40Ca at energies from 30MeV/nucleon to 150MeV/nucleon is well studied in an isospin-dependent quantum molecule dynamics model (IQMD). With increasing incident energy, the directed flow rises from the negative to the positive and the elliptic flow shows decrease with increasing incident energy. The directed flow and the elliptic flow are sensible of the impact parameter and incident energy but they are not very sensible of systematic energy. The directed flow and the elliptic flow are also not very sensible of the EOS because of the combined systematic mass. Systematic studies of the cluster mass dependence are also carefully performed and the elliptic flow of heavy cluster mass is larger than that of light cluster mass. The difference of elliptic flow between the heavy cluster mass and the light one will be not very obvious with increasing incident energy because of large number of light cluster mass.