Influence of differential elastic nucleon-nucleon cross section on stopping and collective flow in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies
Influence of differential elastic nucleon-nucleon cross section on stopping and collective flow in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies
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微分弹性核子-核子截面对中能重离子碰撞停止和集体流的影响
DOI:
10.1103/physrevc.94.024608
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Zhang Hongfei
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作者:
Wang Yongjia;Guo Chenchen;Li Qingfeng;Li Zhuxia;Su Jun;Zhang Hongfei
We considered three different nucleon-nucleon (NN) elastic differential cross sections: the Cugnon et al. parameterized differential cross section [Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. B 111, 215 (1996)], the differential cross section derived from the collision term of the self-consistent relativistic Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation proposed by Mao et al. [Z. Phys. A 347, 173 (1994)], and the isotropic differential cross section within the newly updated version of the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) model. By doing so, we investigated the influence of the differential elastic NN cross section on various observables (e.g., nuclear stopping, both the rapidity and transverse-velocity dependence of the directed and elliptic flows) in Au+Au collisions at beam energies 150, 250, 400, and 800MeV/nucleon. By comparing calculations with those three differential cross sections, we found that the nuclear stopping power and the directed and elliptic flows are affected to some extent by the differential cross sections, and the impact of differential cross section on those observables becomes more visible as the beam energy increases. The effect on the elliptic flow difference nu(n)(2)-nu(H)(2) and ratio nu(n)(2)/nu(H)(2) of neutrons versus hydrogen isotopes (Z = 1), which have been used as sensitive observables for probing nuclear symmetry energy at high densities, is weak.