https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12597-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Collective flows of 
-clustering 12C + 197Au by using different flow analysis methods
1
Institute of Modern Physics, Department of Nuclear Science and Technology, Fudan University, 200433, Shanghai, China
2
Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201800, Shanghai, China
3
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, China
4
ShanghaiTech University, 200031, Shanghai, China
* e-mail: mayugang@cashq.ac.cn
Received:
4
July
2018
Accepted:
23
August
2018
Published online:
28
September
2018
Recently the ratio of triangular flow to the elliptic flow (
) of hadrons was proposed as a probe to detect the pattern of 
-clustering 12C in 12C + 197Au collisions at relativistic energy by a participant plane method (Phys. Rev. C 95, 064904 (2017)). In the experimental event plane method, Q-cumulant method and two-particle correlation method with rapidity gap were always used for the measurement of collective flow only by means of momentum space. By comparing the collective flow through the different methods, the ratio of could be taken as an experimental probe to distinguish the different -clustering structure of 12C .
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