BARC/PUB/2005/0466

 
 

Saturation of Azimuthal Anisotropy in Au + Au Collisions at √sNN=62-200 GeV

 
     
 
Author(s)

Adler, S. S.; Afanasiev, S.; Aidala, C.; Choudhury, R. K.; Chand, P.; Dutta, D.; Kapoor, S. S.; Mohanty, A. K.; and others
(PG)

Source

Physical Review Letters, 2005. Vol. 94: Article no. 232302

ABSTRACT

New measurements are presented for charged hadron azimuthal correlations at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=62:4 and 200 GeV. They are compared to earlier measurements obtained at √sNN=130 GeVand in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=17:2 GeV . Sizeable anisotropies are observed with centrality and transverse momentum (pτ) dependence characteristic of elliptic flow (v2). For a broad range of centralities, the observed magnitudes and trends of the differential anisotropy,v2 (pτ), change very little over the collision energy range √sNN=62–200 GeV, indicating saturation of the excitation function for v2 at these energies. Such a saturation may be indicative of the dominance of a very soft equation of state for √sNN ~ 60–200 GeV.

 
 
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