Elliptic flow of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 , 62.4, and 39 GeV

Autor: P. Filip, P. Pile, G. D. Westfall, S. Das, I. G. Alekseev, M. A. Lisa, J. C. Mei, A. Gupta, M. Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, A. I. Hamad, Sedigheh Jowzaee, N. N. Ajitanand, Peng Huo, A. Harlenderova, M. Tokarev, Yang Yang, W. Guryn, R. Lacey, C-Q. Li, Dukhishyam Mallick, Justin Ewigleben, A. Gibson, T. D. S. Stanislaus, C. Zhong, J. Fedorisin, H. H. Wieman, Zhigang Xiao, David Brown, T. Kollegger, T. Huang, Yunpeng Liu, Derek Anderson, N. G. Minaev, J. Rusnak, A. F. Kraishan, Arka Chatterjee, E. P. Sichtermann, F. Liu, M. J. Rehbein, Christina Markert, L. Ruan, W. J. Llope, C. Zhou, Miroslav Simko, Mariusz Przybycien, F. Videbæk, T. Todoroki, K. Yip, R. R. Debbe, O. Rusnakova, H. S. Matis, J. C. Webb, J. C. Dunlop, L. Wen, Zebo Tang, G. Webb, Jaroslav Bielcik, Alexander Jentsch, D. G. Underwood, M. K. Mustafa, Sukalyan Chattopadhyay, L. K. Kosarzewski, W. W. Jacobs, R. D. Majka, G. Eppley, A. Attri, Y. Li, Zubayer Ahammed, J. Lauret, Jie Zhang, J. L. Drachenberg, J. Schambach, A. V. Brandin, P. Bhattarai, T. Ullrich, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. Cheng, Wei Xie, Z. Ye, P. Seyboth, Siwei Luo, Vipul Bairathi, Anju Bhasin, Maowu Nie, X. Huang, A. Kechechyan, A. Aparin, P. Federic, J. H. Thomas, L. C. De Silva, Pradip Kumar Sahu, T. Nonaka, C. Perkins, R. Lednicky, L. Kochenda, R. S. Longacre, Q. Y. Shou, D. Kalinkin, S. Heppelmann, S. Mizuno, Z. Feng, James Brandenburg, J. W. Harris, K. Kang, T. Niida, Leszek Adamczyk, M. Kocmanek, Peng Liu, Y. Panebratsev, D. Grosnick, M. Lomnitz, L. P. Zhou, Y. Pandit, A. Lebedev, P. V. Shanmuganathan, Z. Shi, N. Schmitz, B. J. Summa, E. Shahaliev, R. Pak, Roli Esha, T. Tarnowsky, M. J. Skoby, Frank Jm Geurts, J. Pluta, M. Zyzak, W. Xu, S. Horvat, Z. W. Miller, D. L. Olvitt, L. E. Dunkelberger, Jiangyong Jia, X. G. Luo, A. H. Tang, G. S. Averichev, Bernd Surrow, N. Elsey, Z. Z. Xu, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, J. Kvapil, J. L. Romero, E. C. Aschenauer, J. Putschke, Xiaofeng Zhu, R. Witt, I. Bunzarov, G. Igo, J. Porter, W. Christie, W. Li, S. Ramachandran, S. Margetis, K. Meehan, Jindrich Lidrych, W. Zha, O. Eyser, H. W. Ke, L. Fulek, A. A. Derevschikov, W. B. Schmidke, Nikita Smirnov, Nilay Shah, C. A. Gagliardi, S. Mioduszewski, E. Finch, X. Dong, Ivan Kisel, A. Ogawa, Subhash Singha, Xuedong Bai, J. Bouchet, Andrey Vasiliev, J. D. Roth, Rene Bellwied, Madan M. Aggarwal, O. D. Tsai, Fuqiang Wang, D. K. Mishra, Guo-Liang Ma, J. M. Campbell, Li Yi, K. D. Landry, K. Kauder, A. Taranenko, J. Butterworth, Jana Bielcikova, Tetsuro Sugiura, Prithwish Tribedy, B. K. Srivastava, X.G. Li, Janet Elizabeth Seger, A. Vossen, T. G. Dedovich, L. Song, S. Fazio, Zongye Zhang, Y. F. Wu, W. Q. Shen, R. E. Tribble, Y. J. Sun, S. Esumi, Y. Guo, A. S. Hirsch, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, Sergey Voloshin, C. Dilks, Jize Zhao, Jongmin Lee, R. L. Ray, I. G. Bordyuzhin, M. Saur, Olga Evdokimov, Barbara Antonina Trzeciak, R. Ma, P. Kravtsov, A. M. Schmah, Dmitry Smirnov, J. Y. Zhang, Qi Yang, S. Kabana, D. Garand, N. Yu, L. V. Nogach, K. Jiang, M. Sergeeva, Gerald W Hoffmann, Q. H. Xu, T. Ljubicic, Y. Wang, G. J. van Nieuwenhuizen, L. Didenko, I. Chakaberia, Sevil Salur, H. G. Ritter, H. Caines, Rafal Sikora, A. Quintero, J. Xu, Y. Fisyak, Jay Roberts, Abdel Nasser Tawfik, Z. Chang, Lin Ma, L. C. Bland, K. Oh, B. Huang, A. K. Bhati, D. Keane, Archana Sharma, K. Krueger, Y. F. Xu, R. Stock, L. G. Efimov, G. Wang, K. Poniatowska, S. K. Gupta, M. Posik, T. K. Nayak, N. K. Pruthi, Giacomo Contin, Arabinda Behera, B. S. Page, Manish Sharma, H. M. Spinka, P. Federicova, D. N. Svirida, D. P. Kikola, Hao Qiu, W. Solyst, B. Stringfellow, Guannan Xie, Xuan Zhang, H. Liu, R. Aoyama, Hanna Paulina Zbroszczyk, R. Reed, Jian Deng, Benjamin Schweid, Anthony Robert Timmins, Adam Ryszard Kisiel, T. J. Humanic, D. Arkhipkin, A. Hamed, J. Engelage, G. Nigmatkulov, G. Agakishiev, D. S. Gunarathne, D. Cebra, J. M. Landgraf, M. Strikhanov, H. J. Crawford, J. K. Adkins, M. R. Girard, R. Fatemi, L. He, H. Z. Huang, S. Vokal, G. Odyniec, J. Sandweiss, Nasim, I. Upsal, P. Chaloupka, Ting Lin, D. Tlusty, Shangfeng Yang, J. Thäder, J. H. Chen, S. Trentalange, N. Magdy, M. Cherney, Xiangming Sun, Niladribihari Sahoo, Lokesh Kumar, D. A. Morozov, Bedangadas Mohanty, Hua Pei, S. K. Tripathy, Z. H. Khan, B. Pawlik, S. Zhang, V. A. Okorokov, A. M. Poskanzer, Zhanwen Zhu, Michal Sumbera, S. W. Wissink, Y. Zhang, Xuliang Chen, J. E. Draper, I. K. Yoo, M. M. Mondal, C. E. Flores, E. G. Judd, X. M. Sun, C. Yang, S. B. Nurushev, P. Sorensen, Joseph Kwasizur, M. Shao, G. Van Buren, S. S. Shi, J. M. Nelson, Y. G. Ma, N. Kulathunga, N. Xu
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Physical Review C. 95
ISSN: 2469-9993
2469-9985
Popis: Author(s): Adamczyk, L; Adkins, JK; Agakishiev, G; Aggarwal, MM; Ahammed, Z; Ajitanand, NN; Alekseev, I; Anderson, DM; Aoyama, R; Aparin, A; Arkhipkin, D; Aschenauer, EC; Ashraf, MU; Attri, A; Averichev, GS; Bai, X; Bairathi, V; Behera, A; Bellwied, R; Bhasin, A; Bhati, AK; Bhattarai, P; Bielcik, J; Bielcikova, J; Bland, LC; Bordyuzhin, IG; Bouchet, J; Brandenburg, JD; Brandin, AV; Brown, D; Bunzarov, I; Butterworth, J; Caines, H; Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, M; Campbell, JM; Cebra, D; Chakaberia, I; Chaloupka, P; Chang, Z; Chankova-Bunzarova, N; Chatterjee, A; Chattopadhyay, S; Chen, X; Chen, JH; Chen, X; Cheng, J; Cherney, M; Christie, W; Contin, G; Crawford, HJ; Das, S; De Silva, LC; Debbe, RR; Dedovich, TG; Deng, J; Derevschikov, AA; Didenko, L; Dilks, C; Dong, X; Drachenberg, JL; Draper, JE; Dunkelberger, LE; Dunlop, JC; Efimov, LG; Elsey, N; Engelage, J; Eppley, G; Esha, R; Esumi, S; Evdokimov, O; Ewigleben, J; Eyser, O; Fatemi, R; Fazio, S; Federic, P; Federicova, P; Fedorisin, J; Feng, Z; Filip, P; Finch, E; Fisyak, Y; Flores, CE; Fulek, L; Gagliardi, CA; Garand, D | Abstract: We present measurements of elliptic flow (v2) of electrons from the decays of heavy-flavor hadrons (eHF) by the STAR experiment. For Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV we report v2, for transverse momentum (pT) between 0.2 and 7 GeV/c, using three methods: the event plane method (v2{EP}), two-particle correlations (v2{2}), and four-particle correlations (v2{4}). For Au+Au collisions at sNN=62.4 and 39 GeV we report v2{2} for pTl2GeV/c. v2{2} and v2{4} are nonzero at low and intermediate pT at 200 GeV, and v2{2} is consistent with zero at low pT at other energies. The v2{2} at the two lower beam energies is systematically lower than at sNN=200 GeV for pTl1GeV/c. This difference may suggest that charm quarks interact less strongly with the surrounding nuclear matter at those two lower energies compared to sNN=200 GeV.
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