Scaling of anisotropy flows in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

Abstract

Anisotropic flows ( v 1 , v 2 and v 4 ) of light nuclear clusters are studied by a nucleonic transport model in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. The number-of-nucleon scalings of the directed flow ( v 1 ) and elliptic flow ( v 2 ) are demonstrated for light nuclear clusters. Moreover, the ratios of v 4 / v 2 2 of nuclear clusters show a constant value of 1/2 regardless of the transverse momentum. The above phenomena can be understood by the coalescence mechanism in nucleonic level and are worthy to be explored in experiments.