On the participant-spectator matter and thermalization of neutron-rich systems in heavy-ion collisions

We study the participant-spectator matter at the energy of vanishing flow for neutron-rich systems. Our study reveals similar behaviour of articipant-spectator for neutron-rich systems as for stable systems and also points towards nearly mass independence behaviour of participant-spectator matter for neutron-rich systems at the energy of vanishing flow. We also study the thermalization reached in the reactions of neutron-rich systems

Systematic study of the energy of vanishing flow: Role of equations of state and cross sections

We present a systematic study of the energy of vanishing flow by considering symmetric colliding nuclei (between $^{12}$C and $^{238}$U) at normalized impact parameters using variety of equations of state (with and without momentum dependent interactions) as well as different nucleon-nucleon cross sections. A perfect power law mass dependence is obtained in all the cases which passes through calculated points nicely. Further, the choice of impact parameter affects the energy of vanishing flow drastically, demanding a very accurate measurement of the impact parameter. However, the energy of vanishing flow is less sensitive towards the equation of state as well as its momentum dependence.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure