Measurement of elliptic flow of light nuclei at sNN =200, 62.4, 39, 27, 19.6, 11.5, and 7.7 GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

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Abstract

We present measurements of second-order azimuthal anisotropy (v2) at midrapidity (|y|<1.0) for light nuclei d,t,He3 (for sNN=200, 62.4, 39, 27, 19.6, 11.5, and 7.7 GeV) and antinuclei d; (sNN=200, 62.4, 39, 27, and 19.6 GeV) and Hē3 (sNN=200 GeV) in the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) experiment. The v2 for these light nuclei produced in heavy-ion collisions is compared with those for p and p. We observe mass ordering in nuclei v2(pT) at low transverse momenta (pT<2.0 GeV/c). We also find a centrality dependence of v2 for d and d. The magnitude of v2 for t and He3 agree within statistical errors. Light-nuclei v2 are compared with predictions from a blast-wave model. Atomic mass number (A) scaling of light-nuclei v2(pT) seems to hold for pT/A<1.5GeV/c. Results on light-nuclei v2 from a transport-plus-coalescence model are consistent with the experimental measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Article number034908
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume94
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 23 2016

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Funding

This work was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. NSF, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, NSFC, CAS, MoST and MoE of China, the National Research Foundation of Korea, NCKU (Taiwan), GA and MSMT of the Czech Republic, FIAS of Germany, DAE, DST, and UGC of India, the National Science Centre of Poland, National Research Foundation, the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, and RosAtom of Russia. This work is supported by the DAE-BRNS project Grant No. 2010/21/15-BRNS/2026.

FundersFunder number
RosAtom of Russia
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program1352081, 1613939
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program
Office of Science Programs
Institute for Nuclear Physics
National Research Foundation South African Research Chair
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
University Grants Commission
Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy
National Natural Science Foundation of P.R. China
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Ministarstvo Obrazovanja, Znanosti i Sporta
Ministry for Education and Science of the Russian Federation
National Research Foundation of Korea
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
National Cheng Kung University Hospital
Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences2010/21/15-BRNS/2026
Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences

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    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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