Multiphase transport model for relativistic heavy ion collisions相对论重离子碰撞的多相输运模型.pdf

PHYSICAL REVIEW C 72, 064901 (2005) Multiphase transport model for relativistic heavy ion collisions Zi-Wei Lin∗ Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA Che Ming Ko Cyclotron Institute and Physics Department, Texas A &M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA Bao-An Li and Bin Zhang Department of Chemistry and Physics, Arkansas State University, State University, Arkansas 72467, USA Subrata Pal Department of Physics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA (Received 30 November 2004; published 8 December 2005) We describe in detail how the different components of a multiphase transport (AMPT) model that uses the heavy ion jet interaction generator (HIJING) for generating the initial conditions, Zhang’s parton cascade (ZPC) for modeling partonic scatterings, the Lund string fragmentation model or a quark coalescence model for hadronization, and a relativistic transport (ART) model for treating hadronic scatterings are improved and combined to give a coherent description of the dynamics of relativistic heavy ion collisions. We also explain the way parameters in the model are determined and discuss the sensitivity of predicted results to physical input in the model. Comparisons of these results to experimental data, mainly from heavy ion collisions at th