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2012

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Inclusive Charged Hadron Elliptic Flow In Au + Au Collisions At √ˢᴺᴺ = 7.7-39 Gev, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, S. Bültmann, I Koralt, D. Plyku, Star Collaboration Jan 2012

Inclusive Charged Hadron Elliptic Flow In Au + Au Collisions At √ˢᴺᴺ = 7.7-39 Gev, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, S. Bültmann, I Koralt, D. Plyku, Star Collaboration

Physics Faculty Publications

A systematic study is presented for centrality, transverse momentum pT, and pseudorapidity (η) dependence of the inclusive charged hadron elliptic flow v2 at midrapidity (|η| < 1.0) in Au + Au collisions at √ˢᴺᴺ = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV. The results obtained with different methods, including correlations with the event plane reconstructed in a region separated by a large pseudorapidity gap and four-particle cumulants (v2{4}), are presented to investigate nonflow correlations and v2 fluctuations. We observe that the difference between v2{2} and v2{4} is smaller at the lower collision energies. Values of v2, scaled by the initial coordinate space eccentricity, v2/ϵ, as a function of pT are larger in more central collisions, suggesting stronger collective flow develops in more central collisions, similar to the results …


Energy And System Size Dependence Of Two- And Four-Particle Ν2 Measurements In Heavy-Ion Collisions At √ˢᴺᴺ = 62.4 And 200 Gev And Their Implications On Flow Fluctuations And Nonflow, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, A. V. Alakhverdyants, M. Bueltmann, Star Collaboration Jan 2012

Energy And System Size Dependence Of Two- And Four-Particle Ν2 Measurements In Heavy-Ion Collisions At √ˢᴺᴺ = 62.4 And 200 Gev And Their Implications On Flow Fluctuations And Nonflow, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, A. V. Alakhverdyants, M. Bueltmann, Star Collaboration

Physics Faculty Publications

We present STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropy by means of the two- and four-particle cumulants ν2 ν2{2} and ν2{4}) for Au + Au and Cu + Cu collisions at center-of-mass energies √ˢᴺᴺ = 62.4 and 200 GeV. The difference between ν2{2}2 and ν2{4}2 is related to ν2fluctuations (σν2) and nonflow (δ2). We present an upper limit to σν22. Following the assumption that eccentricity fluctuations σε dominate ν2 fluctuations σν22 ≈ σεwe …


Directed And Elliptic Flow Of Charged Particles In Cu + Cu Collisions At √ˢᶰᶰ =22.4 Gev, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, S. Bueltmann, I. Koralt, X. Zhu, Star Collaboration Jan 2012

Directed And Elliptic Flow Of Charged Particles In Cu + Cu Collisions At √ˢᶰᶰ =22.4 Gev, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, S. Bueltmann, I. Koralt, X. Zhu, Star Collaboration

Physics Faculty Publications

This paper reports results for directed flow v1 and elliptic flow v2 of charged particles in Cu + Cu collisions at √ˢᶰᶰ = 22.4 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The measurements are for the 0-60% most central collisions, using charged particles observed in the STAR detector. Our measurements extend to 22.4-GeV Cu + Cu collisions the prior observation that v1 is independent of the system size at 62.4 and 200 GeV and also extend the scaling of v1 with η/ybeam to this system. The measured v2pT in Cu + Cu …