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Maximum azimuthal anisotropy of neutrons from Nb-Nb collisions at 400A MeV and the nuclear equation of state

  • M. Elaasar
  • , R. Madey
  • , W. M. Zhang
  • , J. Schambach
  • , D. Keane
  • , B. D. Anderson
  • , A. R. Baldwin
  • , J. W. Watson
  • , G. D. Westfall
  • , G. Krebs
  • , H. Wieman
  • , C. Gale
  • , K. Haglin

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Abstract

We measured the first azimuthal distributions of triple-differential cross sections of neutrons emitted in heavy-ion collisions, and compared their maximum azimuthal anisotropy ratios with Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck (BUU) calculations with a momentum-dependent interaction. By restricting the analysis to free neutrons, the BUU calculations of the triple-differential cross sections for positive rapidity neutrons emitted at polar angles from 7°to 27°agree generally with the data; however, the polar-angle dependence of the maximum azimuthal anisotropy ratio for these free neutrons is insensitive to the size of the nuclear incompressibility modulus K characterizing the nuclear matter equation of state.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)R10-R13
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume49
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1994
Externally publishedYes

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