Nuclear stopping and flow in heavy ion collisions and the in-medium NN cross section
arXiv:nucl-th/0412055 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2005.01.069
Abstract
We present transport calculations for heavy ion reactions in which the mean field and the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section are consistently based on the same effective interaction, i.e. the in-medium T-matrix from microscopic Dirac-Brueckner calculations. Doing so, the stopping in central reactions in terms of the recently proposed $var_{\rm tl}$ observable and the correlation to the behavior of the directed flow is investigated. The relation to the nuclear shear viscosity is discussed.
9 pages, 4 figures