Systematic study of azimuthal anisotropy in Cu + Cu and Au + Au collisions atsNN=62.4and 200 GeV

Autor: F. Matathias, Kensuke Homma, S. Chernichenko, H. Lim, B. Bassalleck, M. Konno, Tadaaki Isobe, J. S. Chai, P. L. McGaughey, Y. Nakamiya, D. Lynch, G. Baksay, B. Forestier, M. T. Bjorndal, B. Sahlmueller, J. T. Mitchell, R. Seidl, Vladislav Manko, M. Slunečka, C. Vale, B. S. Chang, J. Klay, P. Rosnet, O. Dietzsch, S. Afanasiev, A. Ster, K. O. Eyser, K. Fujiwara, H. Valle, J. Newby, G. Roche, Julia Velkovska, J. Chiba, T. Ichihara, D. Hornback, V. S. Pantuev, A. Taranenko, H. W. Van Hecke, G. C. Mishra, Takao Sakaguchi, Kazushi Miki, M. Harvey, J. L. Drachenberg, C. Klein-Boesing, Osamu Jinnouchi, Takahiro Fusayasu, I. D. Ojha, J. G. Boissevain, Masashi Kaneta, Alexander Malakhov, H. Pei, A. D. Frawley, D. Silvermyr, Y. Fukao, A. Shevel, K. Hasuko, D. Kawall, L. S. Zolin, W. J. Park, K. Okada, S. P. Sorensen, M. Gonin, C. Pinkenburg, S. Huang, S. H. Aronson, V. I. Kochetkov, M. Rosati, Tamás Csörgő, Dylan Walker, T. Hester, H. En'yo, P. D. Barnes, A. Yanovich, B. Love, Joakim Nystrand, P. Constantin, M. J. Leitch, Eva Haslum, B. Lenzi, M. Stepanov, W. Holzmann, Marie Germain, J. Murata, Bruno Espagnon, A. A. Vinogradov, Henrik Tydesjö, Maya Hachiya Shimomura, A. G. Litvinenko, J. Gosset, S. N. White, Jiangyong Jia, Y. Goto, J. P. Sullivan, Y. I. Makdisi, Gerd Joachim Kunde, I. Shein, G. S. Kyle, J. M. Burward-Hoy, Alexei Khanzadeev, A. Kozlov, R. Seto, V-N. Tram, K. Nakano, E. Stenlund, K. Haruna, James Alexander, H. Sakata, Charles Maguire, W. C. Smith, S. Leckey, W. E. Sondheim, C. L. Woody, M. J. Tannenbaum, Motoi Inaba, R. Averbeck, Byung-Sik Hong, S. Yokkaichi, J. M. Heuser, V. Dzhordzhadze, Robert F. Hobbs, X. He, Alberto Baldisseri, A. Deshpande, C. P. Singh, A. Bazilevsky, K. Das, K. Boyle, P. A. Rukoyatkin, Mate Csanad, M. K. Lee, I. Tserruya, Y. J. Mao, O. O. Omiwade, S. Y. Fung, Josh Moss, D. Mukhopadhyay, Yu. Efremenko, S. Kametani, V. Peresedov, Robert Vertesi, Y. Le Bornec, B. M. Johnson, E. P. Hartouni, S. Rembeczki, J. G. Lajoie, V. Singh, Alexandre Lebedev, Kiyoshi Tanida, J. H. Kang, D. Bucher, D. M. Lee, Steven E. Skutnik, J. S. Haggerty, A. Romana, T. Hachiya, A. Kiss, A. Isupov, Y. Watanabe, E. Kistenev, John Hill, Anne Marie Sickles, David D'Enterria, I. V. Sourikova, S. Butsyk, H. A. Torii, Toru Sugitate, T. L. Thomas, L. D. Isenhower, Y. L. Yamaguchi, S. Gadrat, H. Masui, A. K. Dubey, J. Sziklai, A. A. Bickley, Minghui Liu, T. V. Moukhanova, Vladimir Samsonov, B. Komkov, I. Younus, Ryugo S. Hayano, S. Takagi, I. Otterlund, S. Bathe, Norio Saito, T. Todoroki, H. Harada, Z. Yasin, Hirohiko Sato, S. K. Tuli, Henner Buesching, M. A. L. Leite, Y. Riabov, Brian Cole, M. Heffner, K. N. Barish, R. P. Pisani, Kenneth Francis Read, Kenta Shigaki, A. Soldatov, Debashish Pal, M. Nguyen, G. R. Young, H. Qu, François Fleuret, R. S. Towell, M. B. Deaton, A. S. Nyanin, Christophe Pierre Suire, Alexander Milov, I. Garishvili, Akio Kiyomichi, S. Sawada, Y. S. Lai, S. Batsouli, Rachid Nouicer, Nikolay Tyurin, I. J. Choi, A. Kravitz, I. Nakagawa, A. V. Kazantsev, M. Naglis, Hideki Hamagaki, K. Aoki, G. David, N. Kurihara, Frank Ellinghaus, Y. Tanaka, V. Babintsev, C. L. Silva, B. Azmoun, J. Ying, E. R. Kinney, K. S. Sim, D. P. Morrison, T. K. Shea, S. Campbell, A. Král, M. J. Kweon, L. Tomášek, A. Franz, M. N. Wagner, Marcus Hohlmann, J. L. Nagle, M. L. Brooks, V. E. Semenov, Junji Tojo, Y. Kwon, P. Mikeš, M. Reuter, H. Iinuma, M. C. McCain, J. Zimányi, Masayasu Ishihara, Tatsuya Chujo, Torsten Dahms, K. Dehmelt, M. G. Hur, C. Y. Chi, H. Hiejima, Jen-Chieh Peng, Susumu Sato, F. Staley, L. Baksay, E. J. Desmond, N. Grau, A. P.T. Palounek, M. Oka, Xiao-yan Li, K. Shoji, K. Imai, Marisilvia Donadelli, V. Bumazhnov, T. C. Awes, Kyoichiro Ozawa, T. Liška, A. Dion, M. Togawa, Jun Kikuchi, Saskia Mioduszewski, Jan Rak, P. W. Stankus, J. Park, R. Lacey, K. Kurita, A. Enokizono, H. Pereira, Florian Bauer, W. A. Zajc, S. Kelly, R. Granier de Cassagnac, A. Adare, V. Baublis, S. Belikov, K. S. Joo, N. Kamihara, A. Rakotozafindrabe, N. N. Ajitanand, A. Denisov, V. Cianciolo, J. Jin, E. M. Takagui, Sergey Fokin, Y. Tsuchimoto, J. E. Frantz, Laurent Bernard Aphecetche, Herve Borel, A. Glenn, A. Taketani, V. L. Rykov, O. Zaudtke, M. Virius, Takahiro Nakamura, R. Armendariz, T. Horaguchi, C. R. Cleven, C. Haegemann, Y. Inoue, Rushan Han, M. N. Hagiwara, S. Esumi, D. Sharma, Y. Cobigo, I. Ravinovich, Susumu Oda, I. E. Yushmanov, Tae-Yeon Lee, Martin Purschke, C. A. Aidala, F. Gastineau, Y. Nagata, P. J. Kroon, T. Shohjoh, A. Durum, A. Drees, Dong-Hun Kim, H. A. Gustafsson, S. S. Ryu, Eun-Hee Kim, Catherine Micaela Silvestre, Agneta Oskarsson, D. Kotchetkov, D. S. Brown, C. Zhang, R. Bennett, A. Morreale, Ahmed Al-Jamel, J. Kubart, M. Finger, Z. Fraenkel, Y. Berdnikov, Viktor Riabov, M. Ouchida, Y. Akiba, R. Pak, S. F. Pate, M. Mishra, S. Nagamiya, J. Asai, Kazuhiro Tanaka, O. Drapier, J. Egdemir, H. Al-Bataineh, D. E. Fields, B. V. Jacak, M. McCumber, A. K. Purwar, Jason Kamin, Vaclav Vrba, Klaus Johannes Reygers, S. P. Stoll, V. Papavassiliou, Shingo Sakai, M. Mitrovski, M. Wysocki, S. S.E. Rosendahl, G. Bunce, A. Churyn, D. Jouan, Johannes Peter Wessels, C. A. Ogilvie, T. K. Hemmick, Yasuo Miake, L. Kochenda, M. Issah, T. Kawagishi, Hiroaki Ohnishi, M. D. Malik, E. Vznuzdaev, N. Willis, A. Hadj Henni, Wei Xie, Xingguo Li, R. A. Soltz, M. Grosse Perdekamp, D. Winter, M. P. Comets, D. Yu Peressounko, P. Tarján, T. Tabaru, Senta Greene, B. E. Norman, E. O'Brien, Xiong Wang, Dong Jo Kim, M. Chiu, T. A. Shibata, D. Isenhower, A. Toia, L. Mašek, J. L. Charvet, T. E. Miller, E. T. Atomssa, P. Chung, M. Holmes, W. S. Emam, H. Kanou, Taku Gunji, H. Gong, J. Seele, F. Kajihara, H. Delagrange, S. Zhou, Y. S. Kim
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Physical Review C. 92
ISSN: 1089-490X
0556-2813
Popis: We have studied the dependence of azimuthal anisotropy $v_2$ for inclusive and identified charged hadrons in Au$+$Au and Cu$+$Cu collisions on collision energy, species, and centrality. The values of $v_2$ as a function of transverse momentum $p_T$ and centrality in Au$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$=200~GeV and 62.4~GeV are the same within uncertainties. However, in Cu$+$Cu collisions we observe a decrease in $v_2$ values as the collision energy is reduced from 200 to 62.4~GeV. The decrease is larger in the more peripheral collisions. By examining both Au$+$Au and Cu$+$Cu collisions we find that $v_2$ depends both on eccentricity and the number of participants, $N_{\rm part}$. We observe that $v_2$ divided by eccentricity ($\varepsilon$) monotonically increases with $N_{\rm part}$ and scales as ${N_{\rm part}^{1/3}}$. The Cu$+$Cu data at 62.4 GeV falls below the other scaled $v_{2}$ data. For identified hadrons, $v_2$ divided by the number of constituent quarks $n_q$ is independent of hadron species as a function of transverse kinetic energy $KE_T=m_T-m$ between $0.1
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