Abstract
Sidewards directed fragment flow has been extracted for 84Kr+197Au collisions at E/A = 200 MeV, using techniques that are free of reaction plane dispersion. The fragment flow per nucleon increases with mass, following a thermal or coalescencelike behavior, and attains roughly constant limiting values at 4≤A≤12. Comparisons of the impact parameter dependences of the measured coalescence-invariant proton flow to Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck calculations clearly favor a momentum dependent nuclear mean field.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3739-3742 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue number | 18 |
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| State | Published - 1996 |