Proton, deuteron and triton flow measurements in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=2.4 GeV

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Contributors

  • HADES collaboration - (Author)
  • Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Excellence Cluster ORIGINS
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • University of Coimbra
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
  • Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
  • TUD Dresden University of Technology
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Abstract

High-precision measurements of flow coefficients vn (n= 1 - 4) for protons, deuterons and tritons relative to the first-order spectator plane have been performed in Au+Au collisions at sNN=2.4 GeV with the High-Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at the SIS18/GSI. Flow coefficients are studied as a function of transverse momentum pt and rapidity ycm over a large region of phase-space and for several classes of collision centrality. A clear mass hierarchy, as expected by relativistic hydrodynamics, is found for the slope of v1, dv1/dy′|y′=0 where y is the scaled rapidity, and for v2 at mid-rapidity. Scaling with the number of nucleons is observed for the pt dependence of v2 and v4 at mid-rapidity, which is indicative for nuclear coalescence as the main process responsible for light nuclei formation. v2 is found to scale with the initial eccentricity ⟨ ϵ2⟩ , while v4 scales with ⟨ϵ2⟩2 and ⟨ ϵ4⟩. The multi-differential high-precision data on v1, v2, v3, and v4 provides important constraints on the equation-of-state of compressed baryonic matter.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number80
Pages (from-to)1-21
Number of pages21
JournalEuropean Physical Journal A
Volume59
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 18 Apr 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

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