“Quantum” molecular dynamics—a dynamical microscopic n-body approach to investigate fragment formation and the nuclear equation of state in heavy ion collisions

J Aichelin - Physics Reports, 1991 - Elsevier
The quantum molecular dynamics approach, an n-body theory to describe heavy ion
reactions between 100 MeV/n and 2 GeV/n is reviewed. We start out with a survey of the …

The equation of state of hot, dense matter and neutron stars

JM Lattimer, M Prakash - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent developments in the theory of pure neutron matter and experiments concerning the
symmetry energy of nuclear matter, coupled with recent measurements of high-mass …

Methods for analyzing anisotropic flow in relativistic nuclear collisions

AM Poskanzer, SA Voloshin - Physical Review C, 1998 - APS
The strategy and techniques for analyzing anisotropic flow (directed, elliptic, etc.) in
relativistic nuclear collisions are presented. The emphasis is on the use of the Fourier …

Flow analysis from multiparticle azimuthal correlations

N Borghini, PM Dinh, JY Ollitrault - Physical Review C, 2001 - APS
We present a new method for analyzing directed and elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions.
Unlike standard methods, it separates the contribution of flow to azimuthal correlations from …

New method for measuring azimuthal distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions

N Borghini, PM Dinh, JY Ollitrault - Physical Review C, 2001 - APS
The methods currently used to measure azimuthal distributions of particles in heavy-ion
collisions assume that all azimuthal correlations between particles result from their …

Collective flow in heavy-ion collisions

W Reisdorf, HG Ritter - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract We provide an overview of collective flow phenomena observed in heavy ion
collisions from the Fermi energy range up to CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) …

Elliptic Flow: Transition from Out-of-Plane to In-Plane Emission in Collisions

C Pinkenburg, NN Ajitanand, JM Alexander… - Physical Review Letters, 1999 - APS
We have measured the proton elliptic flow excitation function for the Au+ Au system
spanning the beam energy range (2–8) A GeV. The excitation function shows a transition …

Measurement of elliptic flow of light nuclei at , 62.4, 39, 27, 19.6, 11.5, and 7.7 GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We present measurements of second-order azimuthal anisotropy (v 2) at midrapidity (| y|<
1.0) for light nuclei d, t, He 3 (for s NN= 200, 62.4, 39, 27, 19.6, 11.5, and 7.7 GeV) and …

Collective flow in heavy-ion collisions

N Herrmann, JP Wessels… - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This chapter presents an experimental overview of collective flow phenomena in
heavy-ion collisions in the incident energy regime from 100 AMeV to 160 AGeV. The …

Beam-energy-dependent two-pion interferometry and the freeze-out eccentricity of pions measured in heavy ion collisions at the STAR detector

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We present results of analyses of two-pion interferometry in Au+ Au collisions at s NN= 7.7,
11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV measured in the STAR detector as part of the BNL …