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Author(s) |
Adare, A.; Afanasiev, S.; Aidala, C.; Choudhury, R. K.; Dutta, D.; Mohanty, A. K.; Shukla, P.; and others (NPD)
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Physical Review Letters, 2014. Vol. 112 (22): Article no. 222301 |
ABSTRACT
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Charged-pion-interferometry measurements were made with respect to the second- and third-order event plane for Au + Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. A strong azimuthal-angle dependence of the extracted Gaussian-source radii was observed with respect to both the second- and third-order event planes. The results for the second-order dependence indicate that the initial eccentricity is reduced during the medium evolution, which is consistent with previous results. In contrast, the results for the third-order dependence indicate that the initial triangular shape is significantly reduced and potentially reversed by the end of the medium evolution, and that the third-order oscillations are largely dominated by the dynamical effects from triangular flow. |
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