https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-10113-x
Dynamics and Thermodynamics with Nuclear Degrees of Freedom
Isospin flows
1
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud INFN, Phys. Astron. Dept., Catania University, Via S. Sofia 62, I-95123, Catania, Italy
2
Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, 77843, College Station, TX, USA
3
Department of Chemistry and Physics, Arkansas State University, P.O. Box 419, 72467-0419, AR, USA
* e-mail: ditoro@lns.infn.it
Received:
18
May
2006
Accepted:
5
June
2006
Published online:
24
October
2006
In this report, we review the isospin dependence of various forms of the collective flow in heavy-ion reactions from Fermi to relativistic energies. The emphasis will be on suggested possible applications in directly exploring the underlying isovector potential and thus the Equation of State (EoS) of asymmetric nuclear matter, in particular in density regions far away from normal conditions. We also discuss forthcoming challenges and opportunities provided by high-energy radioactive beams.
PACS: 25.70.-z Low and intermediate energy heavy-ion reactions – / 25.75.Ld Collective flow – / 21.30.Fe Forces in hadronic systems and effective interactions – / 21.65.+f Nuclear matter –
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