Effects of hadronic potentials on elliptic flows in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Abstract

Within the framework of a multiphase transport (AMPT) model that includes both initial partonic and final hadronic interactions, we show that including mean-field potentials in the hadronic phase leads to a splitting of the elliptic flows of particles and their antiparticles, providing thus a plausible explanation of the different elliptic flows between $p$ and $\bar{p}$, $K^{+}$ and $K^{-}$, and ${\pi }^{+}$ and ${\pi }^{-}$ observed in recent Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC).

Comments: 5 pages, 7 figures