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Elliptic flow of meson and strange quark collectivity at RHIC
Based on A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model, we have studied the elliptic
flow of mesons from reconstructed decay channel at
the top Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energy at Brookhaven National
Laboratory. The dependences of on transverse momentum and
collision centrality are presented and the rescattering effect of mesons
in the hadronic phase is also investigated. The results show that experimental
measurement of for mesons can retain the early collision
information before decays and that the value obeys the
constituent quark number scaling which has been observed for other mesons and
baryons. Our study indicates that the mostly reflects partonic
level collectivity developed during the early stage of the nucleus-nucleus
collision and the strange and light up/down quarks have developed similar
angular anistropy properties at the hadronization.Comment: 5 pages and 5 figures; accepted by Physical Review
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