BARC/PUB/2011/1191

 
 

Measurements of Higher Order Flow Harmonics in Au + Au Collisions at √sNN=200 GeV

 
     
 
Author(s)

Adare, A.; Afanasiev, S.; Aidala, C.; Choudhury, R. K.; Dutta, D.; Mohanty, A. K.; Shukla, P.; and others

Source

Physical Review Letters, 2011. Vol. 107 (25): pp. 252301.1-252301.7

ABSTRACT

Flow coefficients νn for n = 2, 3, 4, characterizing the anisotropic collective flow in Au + Au collisions at  √SNN 200 GeV, are measured relative to event planes Ψn, determined at large rapidity. We report νn as a function of transverse momentum and collision centrality, and study the correlations among the event planes of different order ν. The νn are well described by hydrodynamic models which employ a Glauber Monte Carlo initial state geometry with fluctuations, providing additional constraining power on the interplay between initial conditions and the effects of viscosity as the system evolves. This new constraint can serve to improve the precision of the extracted shear viscosity to entropy density ratio η/s.

 
 
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