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Charge-dependent anisotropic flow in Cu+Au collisions

Nuclear Experiment 2019-08-21 v1

Abstract

We present the first measurements of charge-dependent directed flow in Cu+Au collisions at t sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV. The directed flow has been measured as functions of the transverse momentum and pseudorapidity with the STAR detector. The results show a small but finite difference between positively and negatively charged particles. The difference is qualitatively explained by the patron-hadron-string-dynamics (PHSD) model including the effect of the electric field, but much smaller than the model calculation, which indicates only a small fraction of all final quarks are created within the lifetime of the initial electric field. Higher-order azimuthal anisotropic flow is also presented up to the fourth-order for unidentified charged particles and up to the third-order for identified charged particles ({\pi}, K, and p). For unidentified particles, the results are reasonably described by the event-by-event viscous hydrodynamic model with {\eta}/s=0.08-0.16. The trends observed for identified particles in Cu+Au collisions are similar to those observed in symmetric (Au+Au) collisions.

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@article{arxiv.1601.01017,
  title  = {Charge-dependent anisotropic flow in Cu+Au collisions},
  author = {Takafumi Niida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01017},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of Quark Matter 2015, Kobe, Japan (Sep.27-Oct.3, 2015)

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