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Flow in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the AGS

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The azimuthal distributions of produced transverse energy from the reaction Au + Au at 10.8 AGeV/c have been studied with the nearly 4π calorimetric coverage of the E877-setup at the AGS. A Fourier analysis of these distributions has been performed in different regions of pseudorapidity as a function of centrality. The extracted sideward flow is found to be maximal in semi-central collisions. This analysis has also been employed to extract the orientation of the reaction plane. Spectra of particles identified in the forward spectrometer are then analyzed with respect to the reaction plane and their triple differential cross sections are determined. The nucleons are found to be the carriers of the sideward flow identified in the calorimeters. While the pions are also preferentially emitted into the reaction plane they show a slight tendency for emission to the opposite side of where the nucleons are found.

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  1. Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Johannes P. Wessels, R. Bersch, P. Braun-Munzinger, W. C. Chang, J. Dee, T. K. Hemmick, B. Hong, S. Johnson, Y. Kwon, D. Miśkowiec, S. Panitkin, P. Paul, T. Piazza, M. Pollack, M. N. Rao, S. Sedykh, J. Stachel, M. Trzaska, T. Vongpaseuth, Y. Zhang & C. Zou

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Wessels, J.P. et al. (1996). Flow in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the AGS. In: Bauer, W., Mignerey, A. (eds) Advances in Nuclear Dynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0367-1_23

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