Elliptic flow in central collisions of deformed nuclei.

Authors :: Filip, P.
Source :: Physics of Atomic Nuclei. Sep2008, Vol. 71 Issue 9, p1609-1618. 10p. 2 Diagrams, 12 Graphs.
Publication Year :: 2008
Abstract: Nontrivial geometrical effects in relativistic central collisions of deformed nuclei are studied using a simple version of the optical Glauber model. For very small impact parameters, large centrality and eccentricity fluctuations are observed. In very high-multiplicity collisions of oblate nuclei, a significant fraction of events with nonzero elliptic-flow strength υ 2 proportional to oblateness parameter − β 2 is predicted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]