Latest flow results from PHENIX at RHIC - Quarks and Nuclear Physics Conference Proceedings

2012/06/15 by E. Richardson, Richardson, E.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1206.3501

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Abstract

At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), key insights into the bulk properties of the hot and dense partonic matter arise from the study of azimuthal anisotropy (v₂) of the produced particles. The v₂ values indicate that the matter undergoes rapid thermalization and behaves hydrodynamically at low p_T. Furthermore, the quark scaling of v₂ for different particle species suggests that thermalization occurs at the quark level and that v₂ is the same for all quark flavors. Recently, higher order harmonic measurements (v₃, v₄) have shown the potential for insights into the medium's initial geometry and fluctuations. This proceeding discusses some of the PHENIX Collaboration's latest flow results and their implications.

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