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Elliptic ($v_2$) and triangular ($v_3$) anisotropic flow of identified hadrons from the STAR Beam EnergyScan program

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2020-12-15 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Elliptic (v2v_2) and triangular (v3v_3) anisotropic flow coefficients for inclusive and identified charged hadrons (~π±\pi^\pm, K±K^\pm, pp, pˉ\bar{p}~) at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions, measured by the STAR experiment in the Beam Energy Scan (BES) at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 11.511.5 - 62.462.4 GeV, are presented. We observe that the triangular flow signal (v3v_3) of identified hadrons exhibits similar trends as first observed for v2v_2 in Au+Au collisions, i.e. (i) mass ordering at low transverse momenta, pT<2p_T < 2 GeV/c, (ii) meson/baryon splitting at intermediate pTp_T, 2<pT<42< p_T < 4 GeV/c, and (iii) difference in flow signal of protons and antiprotons. New measurements of v3v_3 excitation function could serve as constraints to test different models and to aid new information about the temperature dependence of the transport properties of the strongly interacting matter.

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@article{arxiv.2012.06759,
  title  = {Elliptic ($v_2$) and triangular ($v_3$) anisotropic flow of identified hadrons from the STAR Beam EnergyScan program},
  author = {P. Parfenov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.06759},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the ICPPA-2020 (Moscow, 5-9 October 2020), Journal of Physics: Conference Series