Azimuthal anisotropy at RHIC: the first and fourth harmonics

Adams, John; Adler, C.; Aggarwal, M.M.; Ahammed, Z.; Amonett, J.; Anderson, B.D.; Anderson, M.; Arkhipkin, D.; Averichev, G.S.; Badyal, S.K.; Balewski, J.; Barannikova, Olga Yu.; Barnby, L.S.; Baudot, J.; Bekele, S.; Belaga, V.V.; Bellwied, R.; Berger, J.; Bezverkhny, B.I.; Bhardwaj, S.; Bhaskar, P.; Bhati, A.K.; Bichsel, H.; Billmeier, A.; Bland, L.C.; Blyth, C.O.; Bonner, B.E.; Botje, M.; Boucham, A.; Brandin, A.; Bravar, A.; Cadman, R.V.; Cai, X.Z.; Caines, H.; Calderon de la Barca Sanchez, M.; Carroll, J.; Castillo, J.; Castro, M.; Cebra, D.A.; Chaloupka, P.; Chattopadhyay, S.; Chen, H.F.; Chen, Y.; Chernenko, S.P.; Cherney, Michael G.; Chikanian, A.; Choi, B.; Christie, W.; Coffin, J.P.; Cormier, T.M.; Cramer, J.G.; Crawford, H.J.; Das, D.; Das, S.; de Moura, M.M.; Derevschikov, A.A.; Didenko, L.; Dietel, T.; Dong, X.; Draper, J.E.; Du, F.; Dubey, A.K.; Dunin, V.B.; Dunlop, J.C.; Dutta Majumdar, M.R.; Eckardt, V.; Efimov, L.G.; Emelianov, V.; Engelage, J.; Eppley, G.; Erazmus, B.; Estienne, M.; Fachini, P.; Faine, V.; Faivre, J.; Fatemi, R.; Filimonov, K.; Filip, P.; Finch, E.; Fisyak, Yuri V.; Flierl, D.; Foley, K.J.; Fu, J.; Gagliardi, C.A.; Gagunashvili, N.; Gans, J.; Ganti, M.S.; Gaudichet, L.; Germain, M.; Geurts, F.; Ghazikhanian, V.; Ghosh, P.; Gonzalez, J.E.; Grachov, Oleg A.; Grigoriev, V.; Gronstal, S.; Grosnick, D.; Guedon, M.; Guertin, S.M.; Gupta, A.; Gushin, E.; Gutierrez, T.D.; Hallman, T.J.; Hardtke, D.; Harris, J.W.; Heinz, M.; Henry, T.W.; Heppelmann, S.; Herston, T.; Hippolyte, B.; Hirsch, A.; Hjort, E.; Hoffmann, G.W.; Horsley, M.; Huang, H.Z.; Huang, S.L.; Humanic, T.J.; Igo, G.; Ishihara, A.; Jacobs, P.; Jacobs, W.W.; Janik, M.; Johnson, I.; Jones, P.G.; Judd, E.G.; Kabana, S.; Kaneta, M.; Kaplan, M.; Keane, D.; Kiryluk, J.; Kisiel, A.; Klay, J.; Klein, S.R.; Klyachko, A.; Koetke, D.D.; Kollegger, T.; Konstantinov, A.S.; Kopytine, M.; Kotchenda, L.; Kovalenko, A.D.; Kramer, M.; Kravtsov, P.; Kravtsov, V.I.; Krueger, K.; Kuhn, C.; Kulikov, A.I.; Kumar, A.; Kunde, G.J.; Kunz, C.L.; Kutuev, R.K.; Kuznetsov, A.A.; Lamont, M.A.C.; Landgraf, J.M.; Lange, S.; Lansdell, C.P.; Lasiuk, B.; Laue, F.; Lauret, J.; Lebedev, A.; Lednicky, R.; Leontiev, V.M.; LeVine, Micheal J.; Li, C.; Li, Q.; Lindenbaum, S.J.; Lisa, M.A.; Liu, F.; Liu, L.; Liu, Q.J.; Liu, Z.; Ljubicic, T.; Llope, W.J.; Long, H.; Longacre, R.S.; Lopez-Noriega, M.; Love, W.A.; Ludlam, T.; Lynn, D.; Ma, J.; Ma, Y.G.; Magestro, D.; Mahajan, S.; Mahapatra, D.P.; Majka, R.; Mangotra, L.K.; Manweiler, R.; Margetis, S.; Markert, C.; Martin, L.; Marx, J.; Matis, H.S.; Matulenko, Yu.A.; McShane, T.S.; Meissner, F.; Melnick, Yu.; Meschanin, A.; Messer, M.; Miller, M.L.; Milosevich, Z.; Minaev, N.G.; Mironov, C.; Mishra, D.; Mitchell, J.; Mohanty, B.; Molnar, L.; Moore, C.F.; Mora-Corral, M.J.; Morozov, V.; Munhoz, M.G.; Nandi, B.K.; Nayak, S.K.; Nayak, T.K.; Nelson, John M.; Nevski, P.; Nikitin, V.A.; Nogach, L.V.; Norman, B.E.; Nurushev, S.B.; Odyniec, G.; Ogawa, A.; Okorokov, V.; Oldenburg, M.; Olson, D.; Paic, G.; Pal, S.K.; Pandey, S.U.; Panebratsev, Y.; Panitkin, S.Y.; Pavlinov, A.I.; Pawlak, T.; Perevoztchikov, V.; Peryt, W.; Petrov, V.A.; Phatak, S.C.; Picha, R.; Planinic, M.; Pluta, J.; Porile, N.; Porter, J.; Poskanzer, Arthur M.; Potekhin, M.; Potrebenikova, E.; Potukuchi, B.V.K.S.; Prindle, D.; Pruneau, C.; Putschke, J.; Rai, G.; Rakness, G.; Raniwala, R.; Raniwala, S.; Ravel, O.; Ray, R.L.; Razin, S.V.; Reichhold, D.; Reid, J.G.; Renault, G.; Retiere, F.; Ridiger, A.; Ritter, H.G.; Roberts, J.B.; Rogachevski, O.V.; Romero, J.L.; Rose, A.; Roy, C.; Ruan, L.J.; Sahoo, R.; Sakrejda, I.; Salur, S.; Sandweiss, J.; Savin, Igor A.; Schambach, J.; Scharenberg, R.P.; Schmitz, N.; Schroeder, L.S.; Schweda, K.; Seger, J.; Seliverstov, D.; Seyboth, P.; Shahaliev, E.; Shao, M.; Sharma, M.; Shestermanov, K.E.; Shimanskii, S.S.; Simon, F.; Singaraju, R.N.; Skoro, G.; Smirnov, N.; Snellings, R.; Sood, G.; Sorensen, P.; Sowinski, J.; Spinka, H.M.; Srivastava, B.; Stanislaus, S.; Stock, R.; Stolpovsky, A.; Strikhanov, M.; Stringfellow, B.; Struck, C.; Suaide, A.A.P.; Sugarbaker, E.; Suire, C.; Sumbera, M.; Surrow, B.; Symons, T.J.M.; Szanto de Toledo, A.; Szarwas, P.; Tai, A.; Takahashi, J.; Tang, A.H.; Thein, D.; Thomas, J.H.; Tikhomirov, V.; Tokarev, M.; Tonjes, M.B.; Trainor, T.A.; Trentalange, S.; Tribble, R.E.; Trivedi, M.D.; Trofimov, V.; Tsai, O.; Ullrich, T.; Underwood, David G.; Van Buren, G.; VanderMolen, A.M.; Vasiliev, A.N.; Vasiliev, M.; Vigdor, S.E.; Viyogi, Y.P.; Voloshin, S.A.; Waggoner, W.; Wang, F.; Wang, G.; Wang, X.L.; Wang, Z.M.; Ward, H.; Watson, J.W.; Wells, R.; Westfall, G.D.; Whitten, C., Jr.; Wieman, H.; Willson, R.; Wissink, S.W.; Witt, R.; Wood, J.; Wu, J.; Xu, N.; Xu, Z.; Xu, Z.Z.; Yakutin, A.E.; Yamamoto, E.; Yang, J.; Yepes, P.; Yurevich, V.I.; Zanevski, Y.V.; Zborovsky, I.; Zhang, H.; Zhang, H.Y.; Zhang, W.M.; Zhang, Z.P.; Zolnierczuk, P.A.; Zoulkarneev, R.; Zoulkarneeva, J.; Zubarev, A.N.

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Azimuthal anisotropy at RHIC: the first and fourth harmonics

Authors: John Adams
C. Adler
M.M. Aggarwal
Z. Ahammed
J. Amonett
B.D. Anderson
M. Anderson
D. Arkhipkin
G.S. Averichev
S.K. Badyal
J. Balewski
Olga Yu. Barannikova
L.S. Barnby
J. Baudot
S. Bekele
V.V. Belaga
R. Bellwied
J. Berger
B.I. Bezverkhny
S. Bhardwaj
P. Bhaskar
A.K. Bhati
H. Bichsel
A. Billmeier
L.C. Bland
C.O. Blyth
B.E. Bonner
M. Botje
A. Boucham
A. Brandin
A. Bravar
R.V. Cadman
X.Z. Cai
H. Caines
M. Calderon de la Barca Sanchez
J. Carroll
J. Castillo
M. Castro
D.A. Cebra
P. Chaloupka
S. Chattopadhyay
H.F. Chen
Y. Chen
S.P. Chernenko
Michael G. Cherney
A. Chikanian
B. Choi
W. Christie
J.P. Coffin
T.M. Cormier
J.G. Cramer
H.J. Crawford
D. Das
S. Das
M.M. de Moura
A.A. Derevschikov
L. Didenko
T. Dietel
X. Dong
J.E. Draper
F. Du
A.K. Dubey
V.B. Dunin
J.C. Dunlop
M.R. Dutta Majumdar
V. Eckardt
L.G. Efimov
V. Emelianov
J. Engelage
G. Eppley
B. Erazmus
M. Estienne
P. Fachini
V. Faine
J. Faivre
R. Fatemi
K. Filimonov
P. Filip
E. Finch
Yuri V. Fisyak
D. Flierl
K.J. Foley
J. Fu
C.A. Gagliardi
N. Gagunashvili
J. Gans
M.S. Ganti
L. Gaudichet
M. Germain
F. Geurts
V. Ghazikhanian
P. Ghosh
J.E. Gonzalez
Oleg A. Grachov
V. Grigoriev
S. Gronstal
D. Grosnick
M. Guedon
S.M. Guertin
A. Gupta
E. Gushin
T.D. Gutierrez
T.J. Hallman
D. Hardtke
J.W. Harris
M. Heinz
T.W. Henry
S. Heppelmann
T. Herston
B. Hippolyte
A. Hirsch
E. Hjort
G.W. Hoffmann
M. Horsley
H.Z. Huang
S.L. Huang
T.J. Humanic
G. Igo
A. Ishihara
P. Jacobs
W.W. Jacobs
M. Janik
I. Johnson
P.G. Jones
E.G. Judd
S. Kabana
M. Kaneta
M. Kaplan
D. Keane
J. Kiryluk
A. Kisiel
J. Klay
S.R. Klein
A. Klyachko
D.D. Koetke
T. Kollegger
A.S. Konstantinov
M. Kopytine
L. Kotchenda
A.D. Kovalenko
M. Kramer
P. Kravtsov
V.I. Kravtsov
K. Krueger
C. Kuhn
A.I. Kulikov
A. Kumar
G.J. Kunde
C.L. Kunz
R.K. Kutuev
A.A. Kuznetsov
M.A.C. Lamont
J.M. Landgraf
S. Lange
C.P. Lansdell
B. Lasiuk
F. Laue
J. Lauret
A. Lebedev
R. Lednicky
V.M. Leontiev
Micheal J. LeVine
C. Li
Q. Li
S.J. Lindenbaum
M.A. Lisa
F. Liu
L. Liu
Q.J. Liu
Z. Liu
T. Ljubicic
W.J. Llope
H. Long
R.S. Longacre
M. Lopez-Noriega
W.A. Love
T. Ludlam
D. Lynn
J. Ma
Y.G. Ma
D. Magestro
S. Mahajan
D.P. Mahapatra
R. Majka
L.K. Mangotra
R. Manweiler
S. Margetis
C. Markert
L. Martin
J. Marx
H.S. Matis
Yu.A. Matulenko
T.S. McShane
F. Meissner
Yu. Melnick
A. Meschanin
M. Messer
M.L. Miller
Z. Milosevich
N.G. Minaev
C. Mironov
D. Mishra
J. Mitchell
B. Mohanty
L. Molnar
C.F. Moore
M.J. Mora-Corral
V. Morozov
M.G. Munhoz
B.K. Nandi
S.K. Nayak
T.K. Nayak
John M. Nelson
P. Nevski
V.A. Nikitin
L.V. Nogach
B.E. Norman
S.B. Nurushev
G. Odyniec
A. Ogawa
V. Okorokov
M. Oldenburg
D. Olson
G. Paic
S.K. Pal
S.U. Pandey
Y. Panebratsev
S.Y. Panitkin
A.I. Pavlinov
T. Pawlak
V. Perevoztchikov
W. Peryt
V.A. Petrov
S.C. Phatak
R. Picha
M. Planinic
J. Pluta
N. Porile
J. Porter
Arthur M. Poskanzer
M. Potekhin
E. Potrebenikova
B.V.K.S. Potukuchi
D. Prindle
C. Pruneau
J. Putschke
G. Rai
G. Rakness
R. Raniwala
S. Raniwala
O. Ravel
R.L. Ray
S.V. Razin
D. Reichhold
J.G. Reid
G. Renault
F. Retiere
A. Ridiger
H.G. Ritter
J.B. Roberts
O.V. Rogachevski
J.L. Romero
A. Rose
C. Roy
L.J. Ruan
R. Sahoo
I. Sakrejda
S. Salur
J. Sandweiss
Igor A. Savin
J. Schambach
R.P. Scharenberg
N. Schmitz
L.S. Schroeder
K. Schweda
J. Seger
D. Seliverstov
P. Seyboth
E. Shahaliev
M. Shao
M. Sharma
K.E. Shestermanov
S.S. Shimanskii
F. Simon
R.N. Singaraju
G. Skoro
N. Smirnov
R. Snellings
G. Sood
P. Sorensen
J. Sowinski
H.M. Spinka
B. Srivastava
S. Stanislaus
R. Stock
A. Stolpovsky
M. Strikhanov
B. Stringfellow
C. Struck
A.A.P. Suaide
E. Sugarbaker
C. Suire
M. Sumbera
B. Surrow
T.J.M. Symons
A. Szanto de Toledo
P. Szarwas
A. Tai
J. Takahashi
A.H. Tang
D. Thein
J.H. Thomas
V. Tikhomirov
M. Tokarev
M.B. Tonjes
T.A. Trainor
S. Trentalange
R.E. Tribble
M.D. Trivedi
V. Trofimov
O. Tsai
T. Ullrich
David G. Underwood
G. Van Buren
A.M. VanderMolen
A.N. Vasiliev
M. Vasiliev
S.E. Vigdor
Y.P. Viyogi
S.A. Voloshin
W. Waggoner
F. Wang
G. Wang
X.L. Wang
Z.M. Wang
H. Ward
J.W. Watson
R. Wells
G.D. Westfall
C., Jr. Whitten
H. Wieman
R. Willson
S.W. Wissink
R. Witt
J. Wood
J. Wu
N. Xu
Z. Xu
Z.Z. Xu
A.E. Yakutin
E. Yamamoto
J. Yang
P. Yepes
V.I. Yurevich
Y.V. Zanevski
I. Zborovsky
H. Zhang
H.Y. Zhang
W.M. Zhang
Z.P. Zhang
P.A. Zolnierczuk
R. Zoulkarneev
J. Zoulkarneeva
A.N. Zubarev
Publication date: 1 January 2004
Publisher: 'American Physical Society (APS)'
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Abstract

We report the first observations of the first harmonic (directed flow, v_1), and the fourth harmonic (v_4), in the azimuthal distribution of particles with respect to the reaction plane in Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Both measurements were done taking advantage of the large elliptic flow (v_2) generated at RHIC. From the correlation of v_2 with v_1 it is determined that v_2 is positive, or {\it in-plane}. The integrated v_4 is about a factor of 10 smaller than v_2. For the sixth (v_6) and eighth (v_8) harmonics upper limits on the magnitudes are reported.Comment: 6 pages with 3 figures, as accepted for Phys. Rev. Letters The data tables are at http://www.star.bnl.gov/central/publications/pubDetail.php?id=3