Beam energy dependence of squeeze-out effect on the directed and elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at high baryon density region

Abstract

We present a detailed analysis of the beam energy dependence of the mechanisms for the generation of directed and elliptic flows in Au+Au collisions focusing on the role of hadronic rescattering and spectator shadowing within a microscopic transport model JAM with different equation of state. A systematic study of the beam energy dependence is performed for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.3-62.4$ GeV. The transition of the dynamical origin of the directed flow is observed. We find that the initial Glauber type nucleon-nucleon collisions generate negative $v_1$ for nucleons at midrapidity due to the presence of spectator matter, and this negative nucleon $v_1$ is turned to be positive by the meson-baryon interactions at the beam energy region of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}<30$ GeV. In contrast, above 30 GeV there is no spectator shadowing at midrapidity, and initial nucleon-nucleon collisions do not generate directed flow, but subsequent rescatterings among produced particles generate negative $v_1$ for nucleons. It is demonstrated that negative pion-directed flows are mostly generated by the interaction with the spectator matter. It is also shown that the squeeze-out effect is largely suppressed in the case of softening, which leads to the enhancement of elliptic flow around $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5-7$ GeV. The elliptic flow at midrapidity above 10 GeV is not influenced by the squeeze-out due to spectator matter, while its effect is seen at the forward rapidity range of $y/y_{c.m.}>0.5$, which decreases as beam energy increases.

arXiv comment14 pages, 17 figures

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