Systematic Study Of Azimuthal Anisotropy In Cu + Cu And Au + Au Collisions At √sNN =62.4 And 200 GeV
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Physical Review C
Abstract
We have studied the dependence of azimuthal anisotropy v₂ for inclusive and identified charged hadrons in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions on collision energy, species, and centrality. The values of v₂ as a function of transverse momentum pT and centrality in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 and 62.4 GeV are the same within uncertainties. However, in Cu+Cu collisions we observe a decrease in v₂ values as the collision energy is reduced from 200 to 62.4 GeV. The decrease is larger in the more peripheral collisions. By examining both Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions we find that v₂ depends both on eccentricity and the number of participants, Npart. We observe that v₂ divided by eccentricity (ɛ) monotonically increases with Npart and scales as Npart1/3. The Cu+Cu data at 62.4 GeV falls below the other scaled v₂ data. For identified hadrons, v₂ divided by the number of constituent quarks nq is independent of hadron species as a function of transverse kinetic energy KET=mT-m between 0.1
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.92.034913
Publication Date
2015
Recommended Citation
Adare, Andrew Marshall; Baksay, Gyöngyi; Baksay, László A.; Dehmelt, Klaus; Hohlmann, Marcus; Rembeczki, S.; and PHENIX Collaboration, "Systematic Study Of Azimuthal Anisotropy In Cu + Cu And Au + Au Collisions At √sNN =62.4 And 200 GeV" (2015). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 456.
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