TY  - INPR
A1  - Gaździcki, Marek
A1  - Gorenstein, Mark I.
T1  - Transparency, mixing and reflection of initial flows in relativistic nuclear collisions
N2  - We propose to use the hadron number fluctuations in the limited momentum regions to study the evolution of initial flows in high energy nuclear collisions. In this method by a proper preparation of a collision sample the projectile and target initial flows are marked in fluctuations in the number of colliding nucleons. We discuss three limiting cases of the evolution of flows, transparency, mixing and reflection, and present for them quantitative predictions obtained within several models. Finally, we apply the method to the NA49 results on fluctuations of the negatively charged hadron multiplicity in Pb+Pb interactions at 158A GeV and conclude that the data favor a hydrodynamical model with a significant degree of mixing of the initial flows at the early stage of collisions.
KW  - relativistic nuclear collisions
KW  - longitudinal flow
KW  - fluctuations
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2615
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-27872
ER  -