Tips for Viewing the Hand-Cranked ARC Movie

This "movie" consists of just six frames. To advance to the next frame, click on the displayed frame. After your first run through, the pictures should be cached locally. Thereafter, you can rapidly play the "movie" either forwards or backwards using the forward and back buttons on your browser. You may want to try one of the "single-panel" movies (see below) if your setup does not work well with the full-sized version.

What the Movie Shows

The six frames show the simulated time-evolution of a collision between two gold nuclei at intervals of 2 fm/c. The colors show the intensity at that point of the quantity indicated in the caption. The quantity Px is a measure of fluid-like collective sideward deflection of nucleons, and will be measured in E895. A different color scale is used for Px associated with nucleons from the projectile and target. The simulations are derived from the ARC (A Relativistic Cascade) model developed by Sid Kahana and collaborators, and these plots were generated by David Kahana and Tom Schlagel.

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