Relativistic Effects in Transverse Flow in the Molecular Dynamics Framework

Abstract

In order to investigate relativistic effects we compare the transverse flow calculated using four versions of the QMD approaches with that of the full covariant RQMD approach. We conclude that the simplified RQMD (RQMD/S), which uses a common time coordinate for all particles, can be used instead of RQMD up to 6 GeV /u.