Session J5 - Particle Distribution and Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions.
MIXED session, Saturday morning, October 31
Room 4a, Sweeney Convention Center
Using a relativistic hadron transport model, we investigate the utility of elliptic flow excitation function as a probe for the stiffness of nuclear matter and for the onset of a possible QGP phase transition at AGS energies 1<E_beam<11 AGeV. The excitation function shows a strong dependence on the nuclear equation of state, and exhibits characteristic signatures which could signal the onset of a phase transition to the quark gluon plasma.