Scaling properties of azimuthal anisotropy in Au plus Au and Cu plus Cu collisions at √sNN=200 GeV

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Adare, A. [1 ]
Afanasiev, S.
Aidala, C.
Ajitanand, N. N.
Akiba, Y.
Al-Bataineh, H.
Alexander, J.
Al-Jamel, A.
Aoki, K.
Aphecetche, L.
Armendariz, R.
Aronson, S. H.
Asai, J.
Atomssa, E. T.
Averbeck, R.
Awes, T. C.
Azmoun, B.
Babintsev, V.
Baksay, G.
Baksay, L.
Baldisseri, A.
Barish, K. N.
Barnes, P. D.
Bassalleck, B.
Bathe, S.
Batsouli, S.
Baublis, V.
Bauer, F.
Bazilevsky, A.
Belikov, S.
Bennett, R.
Berdnikov, Y.
Bickley, A. A.
Bjorndal, M. T.
Boissevain, J. G.
Borel, H.
Boyle, K.
Brooks, M. L.
Brown, D. S.
Bucher, D.
Buesching, H.
Bumazhnov, V.
Bunce, G.
Burward-Hoy, J. M.
Butsyk, S.
Campbell, S.
Chai, J.-S.
Chang, B. S.
Charvet, J.-L.
Chernichenko, S.
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[1] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Abilene Christian Univ, Abilene, TX 79699 USA
[3] Banaras Hindu Univ, Dept Phys, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
[4] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[5] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[6] Charles Univ Prague, CR-11636 Prague, Czech Republic
[7] CIAE, Beijing, Peoples R China
[8] Univ Tokyo, Ctr Nucl Study, Grad Sch Sci, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[9] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[10] Nevis Labs, Irvington, NY 10533 USA
[11] Czech Tech Univ, Prague 16636 6, Czech Republic
[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 Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA
[16] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[17] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
[18] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan
[19] State Res Ctr Russian Federat, IHEP Protvino, Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino 142281, Russia
[20] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[21] Acad Sci Czech Republic, Inst Phys, Prague 18221 8, Czech Republic
[22] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[23] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Moscow Region, Russia
[24] KAERI, Cyclotron Applicat Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[25] KEK, High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[26] Hungarian Acad Sci, KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, MTA, RMKI, Budapest, Hungary
[27] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[28] Russian Res Ctr Kurchatov Inst, Moscow, Russia
[29] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[30] Ecole Polytech, Lab Leprince Ringuet, CNRS, IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[31] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[32] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[33] Univ Clermont Ferrand, LPC, CNRS, IN2P3, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, France
[34] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
[35] Univ Munster, Inst Kernphys, D-48149 Munster, Germany
[36] Myongji Univ, Yongin 449728, Kyonggido, South Korea
[37] Nagasaki Inst Appl Sci, Nagasaki 8510193, Japan
[38] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[39] New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[40] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[41] Univ Paris 11, IPN Orsay, CNRS, IN2P3, F-91406 Orsay, France
[42] Peking Univ, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[43] PNPI, Gatchina 188300, Leningrad, Russia
[44] RIKEN, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[45] Brookhaven Natl Lab, RIKEN BNL Res Ctr, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[46] Rikkyo Univ, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1718501, Japan
[47] St Petersburg State Polytech Univ, St Petersburg, Russia
[48] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[49] Seoul Natl Univ, Syst Elect Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[50] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Chem, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.162301
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Differential measurements of elliptic flow (v(2)) for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV are used to test and validate predictions from perfect fluid hydrodynamics for scaling of v(2) with eccentricity, system size, and transverse kinetic energy (KET). For KET equivalent to m(T)-m up to similar to 1 GeV the scaling is compatible with hydrodynamic expansion of a thermalized fluid. For large values of KET mesons and baryons scale separately. Quark number scaling reveals a universal scaling of v(2) for both mesons and baryons over the full KET range for Au+Au. For Au+Au and Cu+Cu the scaling is more pronounced in terms of KET, rather than transverse momentum.
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