On the choice of colliding beams to study deformation effects in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Abstract

It has been suggested that collisions between deformed shapes will lead to interesting effects on various observables such as K production and elliptic flow. Simple formulae can be written down which show how to choose the colliding beams which will maximise the effects of deformation.

2 pages, this version supersedes the previous one

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• Uranium on uranium collisions at relativistic energies
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