Disappearance of partonic collectivity in sNN=3 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

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Abstract

We report on the measurements of directed flow v1 and elliptic flow v2 for hadrons (π±, K±, KS0, p, ϕ, Λ and Ξ) from Au+Au collisions at sNN=3 GeV and v2 for (π±, K±, p and p‾) at 27 and 54.4 GeV with the STAR experiment. While at the two higher energy midcentral collisions the number-of-constituent-quark (NCQ) scaling holds, at 3 GeV the v2 at midrapidity is negative for all hadrons and the NCQ scaling is absent. In addition, the v1 slopes at midrapidity for almost all observed hadrons are found to be positive, implying dominant repulsive baryonic interactions. The features of negative v2 and positive v1 slope at 3 GeV can be reproduced with a baryonic mean-field in transport model calculations. These results imply that the medium in such collisions is likely characterized by baryonic interactions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number137003
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume827
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 10 2022

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We thank Drs. Y. Nara and J. Steinheimer for interesting discussions and the use of their JAM and UrQMD simulations codes. We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL, and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science , the U.S. National Science Foundation , the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation , National Natural Science Foundation of China , Chinese Academy of Science , the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Chinese Ministry of Education , the Higher Education Sprout Project by Ministry of Education at NCKU, the National Research Foundation of Korea , Czech Science Foundation and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office , New National Excellency Programme of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities , Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, the National Science Centre of Poland, the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, ROSATOM of Russia and German Bundesministerium f\u00FCr Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie ( BMBF ), Helmholtz Association , Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

FundersFunder number
Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities
National Research Foundation of Korea
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Grantová Agentura České Republiky
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
Ministry for Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Ministry of Education at NCKU
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology
Ministarstvo Obrazovanja, Znanosti i Sporta
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Office of Science Programs
Riley Children's Foundation
Institute for Nuclear Physics
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
RHIC Operations Group
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science19H05598
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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