1. Proton, deuteron and triton flow measurements in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4$ GeV
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HADES collaboration, Adamczewski-Musch, J., Arnold, O., Behnke, C., Belounnas, A., Berger-Chen, J. C., Blanco, A., Blume, C., Böhmer, M., Bordalo, P., Chlad, L., Ciepal, I., Deveaux, C., Dreyer, J., Epple, E., Fabbietti, L., Filip, P., Fonte, P., Franco, C., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Galatyuk, T., Garzón, J. A., Gernhäuser, R., Greifenhagen, R., Gumberidze, M., Harabasz, S., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Höhne, C., Holzmann, R., Kämpfer, B., Kardan, B., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Kohls, M., Kolb, B. W., Korcyl, G., Kornakov, G., Kornas, F., Kotte, R., Kugler, A., Kunz, T., Lalik, R., Lapidus, K., Lopes, L., Lorenz, M., Mahmoud, T., Maier, L., Malige, A., Mangiarotti, A., Markert, J., Matulewicz, T., Maurus, S., Metag, V., Michel, J., Mihaylov, D. M., Müntz, C., Münzer, R., Naumann, L., Nowakowski, K., Parpottas, Y., Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Piasecki, K., Pietraszko, J., Przygoda, W., Pysz, K., Ramos, S., Ramstein, B., Rathod, N., Rodriguez-Ramos, P., Rosier, P., Rost, A., Rustamov, A., Salabura, P., Scheib, T., Schuldes, H., Schwab, E., Scozzi, F., Seck, F., Sellheim, P., Selyuzhenkov, I., Siebenson, J., Silva, L., Singh, U., Smyrski, J., Sobolev, Yu. G., Spataro, S., Spies, S., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Svoboda, O., Szala, M., Tlusty, P., Traxler, M., Tsertos, H., Wagner, V., Wendisch, C., Wiebusch, M. G., Wirth, J., Wójcik, D., and Zumbruch, P.
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Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
High precision measurements of flow coefficients $v_{n}$ ($n = 1 - 4$) for protons, deuterons and tritons relative to the first-order spectator plane have been performed in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.4$ GeV with the High-Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at the SIS18/GSI. Flow coefficients are studied as a function of transverse momentum $p_{t}$ and rapidity $y_{cm}$ over a large region of phase space and for several classes of collision centrality. A clear mass hierarchy is found for the slope of $v_{1}$, $d v_{1}/d y^{\prime}|_{y^{\prime} = 0}$ where $y^{\prime}$ is the scaled rapidity, and for $v_{2}$ at mid-rapidity. Scaling with the number of nucleons is observed for the $p_{t}$ dependence of $v_{2}$ and $v_{4}$ at mid-rapidity, which is indicative for nuclear coalescence as the main process responsible for light nuclei formation. $v_{2}$ is found to scale with the initial eccentricity $\langle \epsilon_{2} \rangle$, while $v_{4}$ scales with $\langle \epsilon_{2} \rangle^{2}$ and $\langle \epsilon_{4} \rangle$. The multi-differential high-precision data on $v_{1}$, $v_{2}$, $v_{3}$, and $v_{4}$ provides important constraints on the equation-of-state of compressed baryonic matter., Comment: 21 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables; Figs. 11 updated; The manuscript has associated data in the HEPData repository: https://doi.org/10.17182/hepdata.152804
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- 2022
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