Quark Matter 2017

Collective flow measurements with HADES in Au+Au collisions at 1.23A GeV

8 Feb 2017, 14:40

20m

Regency A

Oral Baryon-Rich QCD Matter and Astrophysics Parallel Session 7.1: Baryon-Rich QCD Matter and Astrophysics (II)

Speaker

Christoph Blume (IKF, Uni-Frankfurt)

Description

HADES provides a large acceptance combined with a high mass-resolution and therefore allows to study dielectron and hadron production in heavy-ion collisions with unprecedented precision. With the high statistics of seven billion Au-Au collisions at $1.23A$ GeV recorded in 2012 the investigation of high-order flow harmonics is possible. Multi-particle azimuthal correlation techniques can be utilized to disentangle the contribution from collective and non-flow process involved in the dynamical evolution of heavy-ion reactions. At low energies v1 and v2, related to directed and elliptic flow, have been measured for pions, charged kaons, protons, neutrons and fragments at the BEVALAC and SIS18, but so far high-order harmonics have not been studied. They allow to characterize the properties of the dense hadronic medium produced in these collisions, such as its viscosity, and provide thus an important reference to measurements at higher energies.

Presentation materials

QM17_02_2017_kardan.pdf