Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.88.014902

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Volume

88

Issue

1

Pages

014902 (1-25)

Abstract

Measurements of the elliptic flow, υ2, of identified hadrons (π±, , K±, , KOs, p, p¯, ɸ, Λ, Λ¯, Ξ-, Ξ¯+, Ω-, Ω¯+ in Au + Au collisions at √ˢᴺᴺ = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV are presented. The measurements were done at midrapidity using the time-projection chamber and the time-of-flight detectors of the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC experiment during the beam-energy scan program at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. A significant difference in the υ2 values for particles and the corresponding antiparticles was observed at all transverse momenta for the first time. The difference increases with decreasing center-of-mass energy, √ˢᴺᴺ (or increasing baryon chemical potential, μB, and is larger for the baryons as compared to the mesons. This implies that particles and antiparticles are no longer consistent with the universal number-of-constituent quark (NCQ) scaling of υ2 that was observed at √ˢᴺᴺ = 200 GeV. However, for the selected group of particles (π+, K+, KOs, p, Λ, Ξ-, Ω- NCQ scaling at (mT - m0/nq > 0.4 GeV/c2is not violated within ± 10%. The υ2 values for ɸ mesons at 7.7 and 11.5 GeV are approximately two standard deviations from the trend defined by the other hadrons at the highest measured pT values.

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Original Publication Citation

Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., . . . Collaboration, S. (2013). Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in Au + Au collisions at √ˢᴺᴺ =7.7-62.4 GeV. Physical Review C, 88(1), 014902 doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.88.014902

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