Saturation of azimuthal anisotropy in Au plus Au collisions at √SNN=62-200 GeV -: art. no. 232302

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作者
Adler, SS [1 ]
Afanasiev, S
Aidala, C
Ajitanand, NN
Akiba, Y
Al-Jamel, A
Alexander, J
Amirikas, R
Aoki, K
Aphecetche, L
Armendariz, R
Aronson, SH
Averbeck, R
Awes, TC
Azmoun, B
Azmoun, R
Babintsev, V
Baldisseri, A
Barish, KN
Barnes, PD
Bassalleck, B
Bathe, S
Batsouli, S
Baublis, V
Bauer, F
Bazilevsky, A
Belikov, S
Bennett, R
Berdnikov, Y
Bhagavatula, S
Bjorndal, MT
Boissevain, JG
Borel, H
Borenstein, S
Boyle, K
Brooks, ML
Brown, DS
Bruner, N
Bucher, D
Buesching, H
Bumazhnov, V
Bunce, G
Burward-Hoy, JM
Butsyk, S
Camard, X
Campbell, S
Chai, JS
Chand, P
Chang, WC
Chernichenko, S
机构
[1] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[2] Abilene Christian Univ, Abilene, TX 79699 USA
[3] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[4] Banaras Hindu Univ, Dept Phys, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
[5] Bhabha Atom Res Ctr, Bombay 400085, Maharashtra, India
[6] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[7] China Inst Atom Energy, Beijing, Peoples R China
[8] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Ctr Nucl Study, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[9] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[10] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[11] Nevis Labs, Irvington, NY 10533 USA
[12] CEA Saclay, Dapnia, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[13] Debrecen Univ, H-4010 Debrecen, Hungary
[14] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
[15] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[16] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
[17] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan
[18] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[19] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[20] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[21] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russia
[22] KAERI, Cyclotron Applicat Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[23] Kangnung Natl Univ, Kangnung 210702, South Korea
[24] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[25] KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
[26] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[27] Russian Res Ctr, Kurchatov Inst, Moscow, Russia
[28] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[29] Ecole Polytech, Lab Leprince Ringuet, CNRS, IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[30] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[31] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[32] Univ Clermont Ferrand, LPC, CNRS, IN2P3, F-63177 Aubiere, France
[33] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
[34] Univ Munster, Inst Kernphys, D-48149 Munster, Germany
[35] Myongji Univ, Yongin 449728, Kyonggido, South Korea
[36] Nagasaki Inst Appl Sci, Nagasaki 8510193, Japan
[37] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[38] New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[39] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[40] Univ Paris 11, IPN Orsay, CNRS, IN2P3, F-91406 Orsay, France
[41] Peking Univ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[42] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, Gatchina, Russia
[43] Inst Phys & Chem Res, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[44] Brookhaven Natl Lab, RIKEN BNL Res Ctr, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[45] Rikkyo Univ, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1718501, Japan
[46] St Petersburg State Tech Univ, St Petersburg, Russia
[47] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[48] Seoul Natl Univ, Syst Elect Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[49] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Chem, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[50] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.232302
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
New measurements are presented for charged hadron azimuthal correlations at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=62.4 and 200 GeV. They are compared to earlier measurements obtained at root s(NN)=130 GeV and in Pb+Pb collisions at root s(NN)=17.2 GeV. Sizeable anisotropies are observed with centrality and transverse momentum (p(T)) dependence characteristic of elliptic flow (v(2)). For a broad range of centralities, the observed magnitudes and trends of the differential anisotropy, v(2)(p(T)), change very little over the collision energy range root s(NN)=62-200 GeV, indicating saturation of the excitation function for v(2) at these energies. Such a saturation may be indicative of the dominance of a very soft equation of state for root s(NN)similar to 60-200 GeV.
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