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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Elliptic and Hexadecapole Flow of Charged Hadrons inAu+AuCollisions atsNN=200  GeV

D. SharmaR. IchimiyaB. AzmounA. KrálM. OkaA. DionAtsushi TaketaniA. EnokizonoP. LiebingMartin PurschkeMate CsanadA. MorrealeZ. FraenkelC. M. CamachoM. RosatiR. K. ChoudhuryK. KaratsuS. DairakuE. H. KimAlice MignereyY. NakamiyaSung Keun ParkPrashant ShuklaL. TomášekV. S. PantuevR. A. SoltzS. F. PateMarisilvia DonadelliM. GoninAnne Marie SicklesV. BumazhnovY. J. MaoB. MeredithN. N. AjitanandS. EsumiH. Al-batainehR. PakM. Grosse PerdekampM. E. ConnorsE. J. DesmondA. A. VinogradovMinghui LiuA. SukhanovH. PereiraS. TarafdarY. TanakaW. A. ZajcAndry Malala RakotozafindrabeG. BaksayM. TogawaE. Vazquez-zambranoN. KamiharaG. R. YoungS. BatheH. QuK. A. DreesV. BaublisA. DenisovTakao SakaguchiR. P. PisaniV. CiancioloK. OkadaY. MorinoJiangyong JiaJiangyong JiaY. GotoKenneth Francis ReadKenneth Francis ReadS. HegyiEva HaslumB. LenziB. SahlmuellerH. En'yoJ. H. KangJohn HillV. PapavassiliouK. N. BarishM. ViriusY. J. KimAgneta OskarssonM. J. LeitchJ. ParkY. OnukiJ. S. HaggertySergey FokinHideki HamagakiK. AokiR. TanabeKazuyoshi KuritaK. TanidaS. AfanasievG. DavidJ. T. MitchellA. D. FrawleyJan RakTakahiro NakamuraPeter ChristiansenA. DreesM. KurosawaY. FukaoR. SeidlTadaaki IsobeB. KomkovR. LaceyJ. NewbyD. WinterL. BaksayD. Yu PeressounkoY. J. KwonT. HesterY. BerdnikovY. AkibaToru SugitateR. Granier De CassagnacA. AdareVladislav MankoM. SlunečkaY. TsuchimotoP. TarjánJohannes Peter WesselsM. OuchidaS. P. SorensenCharles MaguireS. HuangC. H. ChenM. MishraNorio SaitoS. NagamiyaN. A. SparksK. SakashitaH. A. GustafssonS. BelikovP. L. McgaugheyN. MeansM. A. L. LeiteP. ChungK. DasM. WysockiE. P. HartouniSusumu OdaD. HornbackD. KotchetkovO. ChvalaC. ZhangC. ZhangM. HeffnerI. E. YushmanovS. SanoS. SanoW. HolzmannVaclav VrbaKlaus Johannes ReygersA. DurumMaya Hachiya ShimomuraSeong H. KimM. IssahN. GrauJason KaminA. GlennE. KistenevP. RužičkaK. S. SimC. ValeC. ValeA. TaranenkoT. KempelDong-hun KimRui WeiSenta GreeneAlexei KhanzadeevY. I. MakdisiJ. G. LajoieBeomkyu KimK. BoyleChristine Angela AidalaS. P. StollI. RavinovichKazushi MikiA. V. KazantsevCatherine Micaela SilvestreA. DattaE. StenlundRushan HanA. T. BasyeWei XieMotoi InabaBrajesh K. SinghK. YamauraR. M. WrightViktor RiabovR. BelmontJ. S. KapustinskyS. SawadaV. BabintsevH. PeiA. K. PurwarB. FademK. FujiwaraE. O'brienVladimir SamsonovI. J. ChoiA. KravitzS. S.e. RosendahlG. BunceM. BaiO. DietzschJ. YingA. FranzP. MikešP. MikešG. S. KyleT. HoraguchiC. L. WoodyA. BerdnikovK. B. LeeF. MatathiasFrançois FleuretY. S. LaiK. WatanabeM. ProisslE. T. AtomssaH. ValleA. Yu. SemenovKensuke HommaE. RichardsonY. L. YamaguchiAjit Kumar MohantyJames AlexanderT. A. ShibataM. J. TannenbaumDipanwita DuttaP. ConstantinH. ToriiK. ShojiT. SatoR. AverbeckByung-sik HongK. I. HahnA. BazilevskyE. LeitnerHongfang LiuHongfang LiuD. JouanD. E. FieldsT. C. AwesKyoichiro OzawaT. LiškaB. BassalleckJulia VelkovskaB. V. JacakD. RoachPhilippe RosnetJ. S. BokM. ChiuM. KonnoJ. HamblenP. W. StankusJ. M. DurhamTamas Ferenc CsorgoK. M. KijimaS. N. WhiteAlexandre LebedevC. A. OgilvieM. MccumberD. M. LeeZhiying YouM. I. NagyR. BennettT. K. HemmickH. W. Van HeckeI. V. SourikovaJ. L. NagleM. KawashimaT. L. ThomasD. IsenhowerA. ToiaD. WatanabeK. KirilukYasuo MiakeM. D. MalikS. YokkaichiXingguo LiT. V. MoukhanovaE. VznuzdaevM. FingerL. KochendaM. L. BrooksY. IkedaRyugo S. HayanoJongmin LeeE. J. MannelY. RiabovA. KissR. VértesiR. VértesiJ. HanksKenta ShigakiM. NguyenD. LynchC. PinkenburgZvi Hirsh CitronHenner BueschingTaku GunjiH. GongJ. SeeleSteve EdwardsA. S. NyaninG. RocheF. KajiharaRachid NouicerD. S. JumperK. S. LeeT. DahmsK. NakanoX. HeMarcus HohlmannL. A. Linden LevyS. ButsykY. AramakiV. PeresedovW. E. SondheimS. ZhouD. IvanischevS. D. RolnickJ. KosterJ. E. FrantzH. MasuiA. A. BickleyB. LoveP. A. RukoyatkinT. IchiharaA. G. LitvinenkoTakahiro FusayasuAlexander MalakhovA. KozlovR. SetoD. SilvermyrL. S. ZolinW. J. ParkChristopher RosenI. DanchevA. YanovichR. S. TowellI. GarishviliF. WeiKyeongpil LeeJ. IdeC. Y. ChiC. BaumannS. KametaniC. P. SinghB. M. JohnsonA. IsupovJ. SziklaiBrian ColeJ. JinE. M. TakaguiD. KawallH. ThemannJ. MurataGerd Joachim KundeI. SheinK. SedgwickA. DeshpandeY. WatanabeI. YounusJen-chieh PengM. NaglisC. L. SilvaMasayasu IshiharaInkyu ParkXiong WangDong Jo KimA. VeichtI. TserruyaYu. EfremenkoV. SinghR. YangK. ImaiEunja KimJ. P. WoodAlexander MilovI. NakagawaR. LuechtenborgT. EngelmoreO. DrapierFrank EllinghausE. R. KinneyD. P. MorrisonS. CampbellTatsuya ChujoK. S. Joo

subject

PhysicsNuclear reaction010308 nuclear & particles physicsElliptic flowHadronGeneral Physics and AstronomyElementary particleFermion01 natural sciencesCharged particleNuclear physicsPseudorapidity0103 physical sciencesHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNuclear Experiment010306 general physicsNucleon

description

Differential measurements of the elliptic (upsilon(2)) and hexadecapole (upsilon(4)) Fourier flow coefficients are reported for charged hadrons as a function of transverse momentum (p(T)) and collision centrality or number of participant nucleons (N-part) for Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV/ The upsilon(2,4) measurements at pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar <= 0.35, obtained with four separate reaction-plane detectors positioned in the range 1.0 < vertical bar eta vertical bar < 3.9, show good agreement, indicating the absence of significant Delta eta-dependent nonflow correlations. Sizable values for upsilon(4)(p(T)) are observed with a ratio upsilon(4)(p(T), N-part)/upsilon(2)(2)(p(T), N-part) approximate to 0.8 for 50 less than or similar to N-part less than or similar to 200, which is compatible with the combined effects of a finite viscosity and initial eccentricity fluctuations. For N-part greater than or similar to 200 this ratio increases up to 1.7 in the most central collisions.

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.105.062301