Article
Measurements of directed, elliptic, and triangular flow in Cu plus Au collisions at root sNN=200 GeV
Physical Review C
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
11-28-2016
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054910
Abstract
Measurements of anisotropic flow Fourier coefficients (upsilon(n)) for inclusive charged particles and identified hadrons pi(+/-), K-+/-, p, and (p) over bar produced at midrapidity in Cu + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV are presented. The data were collected in 2012 by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). The particle azimuthal distributions with respect to different-order symmetry planes psi(n), for n = 1, 2, and 3 are studied as a function of transverse momentum p(T) over a broad range of collision centralities. Mass ordering, as expected from hydrodynamic flow, is observed for all three harmonics. The charged-particle results are compared with hydrodynamical and transport model calculations. We also compare these Cu + Au results with those in Cu + Cu and Au + Au collisions at the same root s(NN) and find that the upsilon(2) and upsilon(3), as a function of transverse momentum, follow a common scaling with 1/(epsilon N-n(part)1/3).
Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Copyright Date
2016
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Andrew Adare, N. Apadula, Sarah C. Campbell, L. Ding, et al.. "Measurements of directed, elliptic, and triangular flow in Cu plus Au collisions at root sNN=200 GeV" Physical Review C Vol. 94 Iss. 5 (2016) p. 054910 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/41/
This is an article from Physical Review C 94 (2016): 054910, doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054910. Posted with permission.