Hydrodynamics and collective behavior in relativistic nuclear collisions
May, 199614 pages
Part of Structure of vacuum and elementary matter. Proceedings, International Conference on Nuclear Physics at the Turn of the Millennium, Wilderness, South Africa, March 10-16, 1996, Quark matter '96. Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus Nucleus Collisions, Heidelberg, Germany, May 20-24, 1996
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.A 610 (1996) 88C-101C
Contribution to:
- International Conference on Nuclear Physics at the Turn of Millennium: Structure of Vacuum and Elementary Matter,
- 12th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 96),
- International Conference on Nuclear Physics at the Turn of Millennium: Structure of Vacuum and Elementary Matter, 555-562
e-Print:
- nucl-th/9608024 [nucl-th]
Report number:
- CU-TP-772
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Abstract:
Hydrodynamics is applied to describe the dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The focus of the present study is the influence of a possible (phase) transition to the quark-gluon plasma in the nuclear matter equation of state on collective observables, such as the lifetime of the system and the transverse directed flow of matter. It is shown that such a transition leads to a softening of the equation of state, and consequently to a time-delayed expansion which is in principle observable via two-particle correlation functions. Moreover, the delayed expansion leads to a local minimum in the excitation function of transverse directed flow around AGS energies.Note:
- 14 pages, 7 Postscript figures, 1 style file, LaTeX 2e, Proc. of Quark Matter '96 Report-no: Columbia University preprint CU-TP-772
- talk: Heidelberg 1996/05/20
- scattering: heavy ion
- gold
- lead
- quark gluon: plasma
- nuclear matter: collective phenomena
- nuclear hydrodynamics
- quantum chromodynamics
- critical phenomena
- thermodynamics
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