Latest documents http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:14:36 +0200 Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:14:36 +0200 http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3433 Transverse hadron spectra from proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions from 2 AGeV to 21.3 ATeV are investigated within two independent transport approaches (HSD and UrQMD). For central Au+Au (Pb+Pb) collisions at energies above E lab ~ 5 AGeV, the measured K +- transverse mass spectra have a larger inverse slope parameter than expected from the default calculations. The additional pressure - as suggested by lattice QCD calculations at finite quark chemical potential mu q and temperature T - might be generated by strong interactions in the early pre-hadronic/partonic phase of central Au+Au (Pb+Pb) collisions. This is supported by a non-monotonic energy dependence of v2/pT in the present transport model. Marcus Bleicher; Elena L. Bratkovskaya; Sascha Vogel; Xianglei Zhu preprint http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3433 Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:14:36 +0200 http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3431 The cumulant method is applied to study elliptic flow (v_2) in Au+Au collisions at sqrt s=200 AGeV, with the UrQMD model. In this approach, the true event plane is known and both the non-flow effects and event-by-event spatial (epsilon) and v_2 fluctuations exist. Qualitatively, the hierarchy of v_2 's from two, four and six-particle cumulants is consistent with the STAR data, however, the magnitude of v_2 in the UrQMD model is only 60% of the data. We find that the four and six-particle cumulants are good measures of the real elliptic flow over a wide range of centralities except for the most central and very peripheral events. There the cumulant method is affected by the v_2 fluctuations. In mid-central collisions, the four and six-particle cumulants are shown to give a good estimation of the true differential v_2, especially at large transverse momentum, where the two-particle cumulant method is heavily affected by the non-flow effects. Xianglei Zhu; Marcus Bleicher; Horst Stöcker preprint http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3431 Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:36:01 +0200