corner
corner
APS » Journals » Phys. Rev. Lett. » Volume 76 » Issue 24
< Previous Article | Next Article >

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4492–4495 (1996)

Isospin Dependence of Collective Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions at Intermediate Energies

Download: PDF (94 kB) Buy this article Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

Bao-An Li1, Zhongzhou Ren2,3, C. M. Ko1, and Sherry J. Yennello4
1Cyclotron Institute and Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
2Ganil, BP5027, F14021 Caen Cedex, France
3Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China
4Cyclotron Institute and Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843

Received 11 January 1996; published in the issue dated 10 June 1996

Within the framework of an isospin-dependent Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model using initial proton and neutron densities calculated from the nonlinear relativistic mean-field theory, we compare the strength of transverse collective flow in reactions 48Ca+58Fe and 48Cr+58Ni, which have the same mass number but different neutron/proton ratios. The neutron-rich system ( 48Ca+58Fe) is found to show significantly stronger negative deflection and consequently has a higher balance energy, especially in peripheral collisions.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4492
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4492
PACS:
25.70.-z, 24.10.Nz
 
< Previous Article | Next Article >