Excitation function of nucleon and pion elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Excitation function of nucleon and pion elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Within a relativistic transport (ART) model for heavy-ion collisions, we show that the recently observed characteristic change from out-of-plane to in-plane elliptic flow of protons in mid-central Au+Au collisions as the incident energy increases is consistent with the calculated results using a stiff nuclear equation of state (K=380 MeV). We …