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Measurement of the higher-order anisotropic flow coefficients for identified hadrons in Au + Au collisions at sNN =200 GeV

  • PHENIX Collaboration
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Stony Brook University
  • RIKEN
  • Riken BNL Research Center
  • New Mexico State University
  • Kyoto University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • CNRS-IN2P3
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • University of California at Riverside
  • University of New Mexico
  • Abilene Christian University
  • City University of New York
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
  • University of Münster
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
  • Yonsei University
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Columbia University
  • Homi Bhabha National Institute
  • Lund University
  • University of Tsukuba

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Abstract

Measurements of the anisotropic flow coefficients v2{Ψ2},v3{Ψ3},v4{Ψ4}, and v4{Ψ2} for identified particles (π±,K±, and p+p) at midrapidity, obtained relative to the event planes Ψm at forward rapidities in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200GeV, are presented as a function of collision centrality and particle transverse momenta pT. The vn coefficients show characteristic patterns consistent with hydrodynamical expansion of the matter produced in the collisions. For each harmonic n, a modified valence quark-number Nq scaling [plotting vn{Ψm}/(Nq)n/2 versus transverse kinetic energies (KET)/Nq] is observed to yield a single curve for all the measured particle species for a broad range of KET. A simultaneous blast-wave model fit to the observed vn{Ψm}(pT) coefficients and published particle spectra identifies radial flow anisotropies ρn{Ψm} and spatial eccentricities sn{Ψm} at freeze-out. These are generally smaller than the initial-state participant-plane geometric eccentricities n{ΨmPP} as also observed in the final eccentricity from quantum interferometry measurements with respect to the event plane.

Original languageEnglish
Article number051902
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume93
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016.05.31

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Physics & Astronomy

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