316 research outputs found
Azimuthal anisotropy in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies
Directed and elliptic event anisotropy parameters measured in the experiments
at relativistic heavy-ion collider are presented. The possible origin of the
measured elliptic anisotropy parameter and its sensitivity to the early
phase of the high-energy heavy-ion collisions are discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings 20th Winter Workshop on Nuclear
Dynamics, Trelawny Beach, Jamaica, March 15--20, 200
Away-side asymmetry of jet correlation relative to reaction plane: a sensitive probe for jet in-medium modifications
We proposed a new observable based on two particle azimuth correlation to
study the away-side medium response in mid-central Au+Au collisions. We argue
that a left/right asymmetry may appear at the away-side by selecting triggers
separately in the left and right side of the reaction plane. A simple model
estimation suggests that the magnitude of such asymmetry could reach 30% with
details depends on the medium response mechanisms. This asymmetry, if observed,
can help to distinguish competing theoretical models.Comment: 4 pages and 5 figures, update to published versio
Ratio of baryon and electric-charge cumulants at second order with acceptance corrections
We evaluate the ratio of baryon and electric-charge cumulants at second order
from the recent experimental results at GeV by the STAR
Collaboration. The baryon number cumulant is reconstructed from the proton
number distribution, and effects of the finite acceptance on the transverse
momentum are corrected assuming the independent particle emission. We show that
the obtained ratio has a dependence on the rapidity window. Comparison of the
result with the hadron resonance gas model and lattice QCD numerical
simulations suggests that if the fluctuations are generated from a thermal
medium its temperature is significantly lower than the chemical freezeout
temperature.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Identified charged particle azimuthal anisotropy in PHENIX at RHIC
We present here v of identified and inclusive charged particles measured
in the PHENIX central arm detector () with respect to the
reaction plane defined at in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions. We
find that v increases from central to mid-central collisions reaching a
maximum at about 50% of the geometric cross section and then decreases again
for more peripheral collisions. As a function of transverse momentum in
minimum-bias collisions, the v parameter increases linearly with p up to p 2 GeV/c and then saturates for inclusive charged
particles. The v parameter of identified particles (, ,
, , and ) follow a hydro-dynamic behavior up to 2 GeV/c
in p, where the lighter mass particles have larger v at a given
p. However there is an indication that this trend is reversed at
around p 2 GeV/c, where and have larger v
than and .Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Talk presented at Quark Matter 2002, Nantes,
France, July 18-24, 2002. To appear in the proceedings (Nucl. Phys. A
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