COUPLING OF LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE FLOWS IN THE HYDRODYNAMICS OFULTRARELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS

Authors
VENUGOPALAN R PRAKASH M KATAJA M RUUSKANEN PV
Citation
R. Venugopalan et al., COUPLING OF LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE FLOWS IN THE HYDRODYNAMICS OFULTRARELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS, Nuclear physics. A, 566, 1994, pp. 30000473-30000476
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759474
Volume
566
Year of publication
1994
Pages
30000473 - 30000476
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9474(1994)566:<30000473:COLATF>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The space-time evolution of matter produced in high energy nuclear col lisions is explored using a three dimensional hydrodynamic model. A si gnificant coupling between longitudinal and transverse hydrodynamic fl ows is observed. This coupling of flows may be used to infer the degre e of stopping in heavy ion experiments. These results are illustrated by qualitative fits to the CERN NA35 data for S+S collisions at 200 Ge V/nucleon.