Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Physical Review C

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.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.93.051902

Publication Date

2016

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