Abstract
Sidewards directed fragment flow has been extracted for collisions at , using techniques that are free of reaction plane dispersion. The fragment flow per nucleon increases with mass, following a thermal or coalescencelike behavior, and attains roughly constant limiting values at . Comparisons of the impact parameter dependences of the measured coalescence-invariant proton flow to Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck calculations clearly favor a momentum dependent nuclear mean field.
- Received 12 February 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3739
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