Effects of collective expansion on light cluster spectra in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Abstract

We discuss the interplay between collective flow and density profiles, describing light cluster production in heavy ion collisions at very high energies. Calculations are performed within the coalescence model. We show how collective flow can explain some qualitative features of the measured deuteron spectra, provided a proper parametrization of the spatial dependence of the single particle phase space distribution is chosen.

Comments: 11 pages Latex, 2 figures, to be published in Phys. Lett. B