We explore the directed, elliptic, triangular and quadrangular flow of deuterons in Au+Au reactions at a beam energy of 1.23 AGeV within the UrQMD approach. These investigations are of direct relevance for the HADES experiment at GSI that has recently presented first data on the flow of light clusters in Au+Au collisions at 1.23 AGeV. To address the deuteron flow, UrQMD has been extended to include deuteron formation by coalescence. We find that this ansatz provides a very good description of the measured deuteron flow data, if a hard equation of state is used for the simulation. In addition we show that light cluster formation has a sizable impact on the proton flow and has to be taken into account to obtain reliable results in the forward/backward region. Based on the observed scaling of the flow, which is a natural result of coalescence, we conclude that deuteron production at GSI energies is a final state recombination effect. Finally, we also discuss the scaling relations of the higher order flow components up to v4. We show that v3 ∼ v1v2 and v4 ∼ v 2 2 as function of transverse momentum and that the integrated v 2 2 ∼ v4 over the investigated energy range from E lab =0.1 AGeV to 40 AGeV.

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We introduce a novel approach based on elastic and inelastic scattering rates to extract the hyper-surface of the chemical freeze-out from a hadronic transport model in the energy range from E$$_\mathrm {lab}=1.23$$ lab = 1.23  AGeV to $$\sqrt{s_\mathrm {NN}}=62.4$$ s NN = 62.4  GeV. For this study, the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model combined with a coarse-graining method is employed. The chemical freeze-out distribution is reconstructed from the pions through several decay and re-formation chains involving resonances and taking into account inelastic, pseudo-elastic and string excitation reactions. The extracted average temperature and baryon chemical potential are then compared to statistical model analysis. Finally we investigate various freeze-out criteria suggested in the literature. We confirm within this microscopic dynamical simulation, that the chemical freeze-out at all energies coincides with $$\langle E\rangle /\langle N\rangle \approx 1$$ ⟨ E ⟩ / ⟨ N ⟩ ≈ 1  GeV, while other criteria, like $$s/T^3=7$$ s / T 3 = 7 and $$n_\mathrm {B}+n_{\bar{\mathrm {B}}}\approx 0.12$$ n B + n B ¯ ≈ 0.12 fm$$^{-3}$$ - 3 are limited to higher collision energies.

The HADES experiment at GSI will soon provide data on the production and properties of ∆(1232) baryons from Au+Au reactions at 1.23 AGeV. Using the UrQMD model, we predict the yield and spectra of ∆ (1232) resonances. In addition we show that one expects to observe a mass shift of the ∆(1232) resonance on the order of 50 MeV in the reconstructable ∆(1232) mass distribution. This mass shift can be understood in terms of late stage ∆(1232) formation with limited kinetic energy. We show how the mass shift can be used to constrain the kinetic decoupling temperature of the system.