On the elliptical flow and asymmetry of the colliding nuclei

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the asymmetry of colliding nuclei affects elliptical flow in nuclear reactions, revealing a transition from in-plane to out-of-plane flow and how transition energy varies with asymmetry.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of elliptical flow dependence on nuclear asymmetry using isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics simulations.

Findings

Elliptical flow transitions from in-plane to out-of-plane with incident energy.

Transition energy increases with asymmetry for lighter fragments.

Flow behavior varies with asymmetry and fragment mass.

Abstract

A study of elliptical flow is presented with respect to the asymmetry of colliding nuclei using the reactions of 24Cr50 +44 Ru102, 16S32 +50 Sn120 and 8O16 +54 Xe136 at incident energies between 50 and 250 MeV/nucleon within the framework of isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model. For the present analysis, total mass of the colliding pairs is kept fixed and asymmetry is varied as ? = 0.2, 0.3, 0.7. The elliptical flow shows a transition from in-plane to out-of-plane in the mid rapidity region with incident energy. The transition energy is found to increase with the asymmetry for lighter fragments.