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We investigate the excitation function of quark-gluon plasma formation and of directed in-plane flow of nucleons in the energy range of the BNL-AGS and for the E kinLab = 40AGeV Pb + Pb collisions performed recently at the CERN-SPS. We employ the three-fluid model with dynamical unification of kinetically equilibrated fluid elements. Within our model with first-order phase transition at high density, droplets of QGP coexisting with hadronic matter are produced already at BNL-AGS energies, E kinLab ≃ 10AGeV. A substantial decrease of the isentropic velocity of sound, however, requires higher energies, E kinLab ≃ 0AGeV. We show the effect on the flow of nucleons in the reaction plane. According to our model calculations, kinematic requirements and EoS effects work hand-in-hand at E kinLab = 40AGeV to allow the observation of the dropping velocity of sound via an increase of the directed flow around midrapidity as compared to top BNL-AGS energy.
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Brachmann, J., Dumitru, A., Stöcker, H. et al. The directed flow maximum near cs = 0. Eur. Phys. J. A 8, 549–552 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100500070077
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