Inclusive charged hadron elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=7.7-39 GeV
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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO |
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24/09/2013
24/09/2013
2012
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A systematic study is presented for centrality, transverse momentum (p(T)), and pseudorapidity (eta) dependence of the inclusive charged hadron elliptic flow (v(2)) at midrapidity (vertical bar eta vertical bar < 1.0) in Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV. The results obtained with different methods, including correlations with the event plane reconstructed in a region separated by a large pseudorapidity gap and four-particle cumulants (v(2){4}), are presented to investigate nonflow correlations and v(2) fluctuations. We observe that the difference between v(2){2} and v(2){4} is smaller at the lower collision energies. Values of v(2), scaled by the initial coordinate space eccentricity, v(2)/epsilon, as a function of p(T) are larger in more central collisions, suggesting stronger collective flow develops in more central collisions, similar to the results at higher collision energies. These results are compared to measurements at higher energies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (root s(NN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV) and at the Large Hadron Collider (Pb + Pb collisions at root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV). The v(2)(pT) values for fixed pT rise with increasing collision energy within the pT range studied (<2 GeV/c). A comparison to viscous hydrodynamic simulations is made to potentially help understand the energy dependence of v(2)(pT). We also compare the v(2) results to UrQMD and AMPT transport model calculations, and physics implications on the dominance of partonic versus hadronic phases in the system created at beam energy scan energies are discussed. RHIC Operations Group RHIC Operations Group RCF at BNL RCF at BNL NERSC Center at LBNL NERSC Center at LBNL Open Science Grid consortium Open Science Grid consortium Offices of NP and HEP within the US DOE Office of Science Offices of NP and HEP within the U.S. DOE Office of Science US NSF U.S. NSF Sloan Foundation Sloan Foundation CNRS/IN2P3 CNRS/IN2P3 FAPESP CNPq of Brazil FAPESP CNPq of Brazil Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation NNSFC NNSFC CAS CAS MoST MoST MoE of China MoE of China GA GA MSMT of the Czech Republic MSMT of the Czech Republic FOM FOM NWO of the Netherlands NWO of the Netherlands DAE DAE DST DST CSIR of India CSIR of India Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Korea Research Foundation Korea Research Foundation Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports of the Republic of Croatia Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia RosAtom of Russia RosAtom of Russia |
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PHYSICAL REVIEW C, COLLEGE PK, v. 86, n. 5,pp. 1076-1082, 42309, 2012 0556-2813 http://www.producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/33654 10.1103/PhysRevC.86.054908 |
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eng |
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AMER PHYSICAL SOC COLLEGE PK |
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PHYSICAL REVIEW C |
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openAccess Copyright AMER PHYSICAL SOC |
Palavras-Chave | #QCD PHASE-DIAGRAM #NUCLEAR COLLISIONS #CENTRALITY DEPENDENCE #ANISOTROPIC FLOW #COLLECTIVE FLOW #STAR EXPERIMENT #CRITICAL-POINT #TRANSITION #FLUCTUATIONS #SIGNATURE #PHYSICS, NUCLEAR |
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