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The main experimental goal of the proposed research is to provide data allowing for tightening the constraints on density dependence of the Symmetry Energy around the normal density. This is to be achieved through the simultaneous measurement of the elliptic flow of neutrons, protons and light clusters as well as neutron and proton multiplicities. In particular, the data will provide tighter constraints on the slope parameter L and entirely new limits on Ksym, the currently poorly constrained Symmetry Energy curvature parameter. It is expected that the observables specified in the proposal will also enforce new constraints on nuclear transport theories. The proposed observables should allow to constrain the effective masses of neutrons and protons and also shed some light on the influence of the short range correlations on the kinetic part of the Symmetry Energy and on the dynamics of heavy ion collisions.
