Correlation between Nuclear Stopping and Directed Flow at Intermediate Energy

Abstract

The present work deals with the theoretical study of nuclear stopping and its correlation with directed flow in heavy-ion collision at intermediate energy. We present a complete systematic of nuclear stopping and directed flow for symmetric colliding nuclei in the energy range between 100 MeV/nucleon and 600 MeV/nucleon by using soft equation of state. This study is performed within an isospin dependent quantum molecular dynamics (IQMD) model. The effect of isospin dependent and isospin independent cross-section has also been studied and compared. A linear relation has been found between the stopping and directed flow.