Elliptic Flow in Central Collisions of Deformed Nuclei

Abstract

Non-trivial geometrical effects in relativistic central collisions of deformed nuclei are studied using a simple version of optical Glauber model. For very small impact parameters large centrality and eccentricity fluctuations are observed. In very high multiplicity collisions of oblate nuclei (e.g. Au and Cu) significant fraction of events with elliptic flow strength v_2 dependent on oblateness beta_2 is predicted.

12 pages, 11 figures, to appear in the proceedings of RNP2007, Kiev 18.-22.6

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