Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 62: 159-164
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0932-3

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Protons flow in Pb+Pb collisions at 40 A GeV energy

Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, 751 005, India

^* e-mail: pradip@iopb.res.in

Received: 27 September 2008
Revised: 26 January 2009
Published online: 14 February 2009

Abstract

For Pb+Pb collisions at 40 A GeV energy, we calculate the side-ward and elliptic differential flow of protons in the microscopic relativistic transport simulation model. We compare our results with the recent data from the NA49 Collaboration as a function of transverse momenta, rapidity and centrality. We find that the side-ward and elliptic flow agree reasonably well with the experimental data with and without momentum-dependent potentials in the simulation model.