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Azimuthal harmonics in small and large collision systems at RHIC top energies

Nuclear Experiment 2019-05-08 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The first (v1evenv_1^{\text{even}}), second (v2v_2) and third (v3v_3) harmonic coefficients of the azimuthal particle distribution at mid-rapidity, are extracted for charged hadrons and studied as a function of transverse momentum (pTp_T) and mean charged particle multiplicity density Nch\langle \mathrm{N_{ch}} \rangle in U+U (\roots=193\roots =193~GeV), Au+Au, Cu+Au, Cu+Cu, dd+Au and pp+Au collisions at \roots=200\roots = 200~GeV with the STAR Detector. For the same Nch\langle \mathrm{N_{ch}} \rangle, the v1evenv_1^{\text{even}} and v3v_3 coefficients are observed to be independent of collision system, while v2v_2 exhibits such a scaling only when normalized by the initial-state eccentricity (ε2\varepsilon_2). The data also show that ln(v2/ε2)\ln(v_2/\varepsilon_2) scales linearly with Nch1/3\langle \mathrm{N_{ch}} \rangle^{-1/3}. These measurements provide insight into initial-geometry fluctuations and the role of viscous hydrodynamic attenuation on vnv_n from small to large collision systems.

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  title  = {Azimuthal harmonics in small and large collision systems at RHIC top energies},
  author = {STAR Collaboration and J. Adam and L. Adamczyk and J. R. Adams and J. K. Adkins and G. Agakishiev and M. M. Aggarwal and Z. Ahammed and I. Alekseev and D. M. Anderson and R. Aoyama and A. Aparin and D. Arkhipkin and E. C. Aschenauer and M. U. Ashraf and F. Atetalla and A. Attri and G. S. Averichev and V. Bairathi and K. Barish and A. J. Bassill and A. Behera and R. Bellwied and A. Bhasin and A. K. Bhati and J. Bielcik and J. Bielcikova and L. C. Bland and I. G. Bordyuzhin and J. D. Brandenburg and A. V. Brandin and J. Bryslawskyj and I. Bunzarov and J. Butterworth and H. Caines and M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez and D. Cebra and I. Chakaberia and P. Chaloupka and B. K. Chan and F-H. Chang and Z. Chang and N. Chankova-Bunzarova and A. Chatterjee and S. Chattopadhyay and J. H. Chen and X. Chen and J. Cheng and M. Cherney and W. Christie and H. J. Crawford and M. Csanád and S. Das and T. G. Dedovich and I. M. Deppner and A. A. Derevschikov and L. Didenko and C. Dilks and X. 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  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.08155},
  year   = {2019}
}