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Strange quark collectivity of $\phi$ meson at RHIC

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Based on A Multi-Phase Transport model, the elliptic flow v2v_{2} of ϕ\phi mesons which is reconstructed from K+KK^{+}K^{-} at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) energy has been studied. The results show that reconstructed v2v_{2} of ϕ\phi meson can keep the earlier information before ϕ\phi decays and it seems to obey the number of constituent quark scaling as other mesons and baryons. This result indicates that the ϕ\phi v2v_2 mostly reflects the parton level collectivity developed during the early stage of the collisions and the strange and light up/down quarks have similar collectivity properties before the hadronization.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0510095,
  title  = {Strange quark collectivity of $\phi$ meson at RHIC},
  author = {J. H. Chen and Y. G. Ma* and G. L. Ma and H. Z. Huang and X. Z. Cai and Z. J. He and J. L. Long and W. Q. Shen and J. X. Zuo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0510095},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Proceeding for the "Workshop on Quark-Gluon-Plasma Thermalization", TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, Aug. 2005