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Measurement of single electron event anisotropy in Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV
Physical Review C
  • S. S. Adler, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Sergey Belikov, Iowa State University
  • S. Bhagavatula, Iowa State University
  • Paul Constantin, Iowa State University
  • Nathan C. Grau, Iowa State University
  • John C. Hill, Iowa State University
  • John G. Lajoie, Iowa State University
  • Alexandre Lebedev, Iowa State University
  • Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University
  • Jan Rak, Iowa State University
  • Marzia Rosati, Iowa State University
  • F. K. Wohn, Iowa State University
  • et al.
  • PHENIX Collaboration, PHENIX Collaboration
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
8-1-2005
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.72.024901
Abstract
The transverse momentum dependence of the azimuthal anisotropy parameter v(2), the second harmonic of the azimuthal distribution, for electrons at midrapidity (vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0.35) has been measured with the PHENIX detector in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. The measurement was made with respect to the reaction plane defined at high rapidities (vertical bar eta vertical bar = 3.1-3.9). From the result we have measured the v(2) of electrons from heavy flavor decay after subtraction of the v(2) of electrons from other sources such as photon conversions and Dalitz decay from light neutral mesons. We observe a nonzero single electron v(2) with a 90% confidence level in the intermediate-p(T) region. The precision of the present data set does not permit us to conclude definitively that heavy quarks exhibit thermalization with the transverse flow of the bulk matter.
Comments

This article is published as Adler, S. S., S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, J. Alexander, R. Amirikas et al. "Measurement of single electron event anisotropy in Au+ Au collisions at s NN= 200 GeV." Physical Review C 72, no. 2 (2005): 024901. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.72.024901. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Language
en
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application/pdf
Citation Information
S. S. Adler, Sergey Belikov, S. Bhagavatula, Paul Constantin, et al.. "Measurement of single electron event anisotropy in Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV" Physical Review C Vol. 72 Iss. 2 (2005) p. 024901
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/186/