"Deviation From Quark Number Scaling Of The Anisotropy Parameter v₂ Of " by Andrew Marshall Adare, Gyöngyi Baksay et al.
 

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Article

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Abstract

Measurements of the anisotropy parameter v₂ of identified hadrons (pions, kaons, and protons) as a function of centrality, transverse momentum pT, and transverse kinetic energy KET at midrapidity (|η|<0.35) in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV are presented. Pions and protons are identified up to pT= 6 GeV/c, and kaons up to pT= 4 GeV/c, by combining information from time-of-flight and aerogel Čerenkov detectors in the PHENIX Experiment. The scaling of v₂ with the number of valence quarks (nq) has been studied in different centrality bins as a function of transverse momentum and transverse kinetic energy. A deviation from previously observed quark-number scaling is observed at large values of KET/nq in noncentral Au+Au collisions (20-60%), but this scaling remains valid in central collisions (0-10%).

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.85.064914

Publication Date

2012

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