Phys. Rev. Lett.
89,
212301
(2002)
[6 pages]
Flow Measurements via Two-Particle Azimuthal Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=130 GeV
K. Adcox et al. PHENIX Collaboration
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K. Adcox40, S. S. Adler3, N. N. Ajitanand27, Y. Akiba14, J. Alexander27, L. Aphecetche34, Y. Arai14, S. H. Aronson3, R. Averbeck28, T. C. Awes29, K. N. Barish5, P. D. Barnes19, J. Barrette21, B. Bassalleck25, S. Bathe22, V. Baublis30, A. Bazilevsky12,32, S. Belikov12,13, F. G. Bellaiche29, S. T. Belyaev16, M. J. Bennett19, Y. Berdnikov35, S. Botelho33, M. L. Brooks19, D. S. Brown26, N. Bruner25, D. Bucher22, H. Buesching22, V. Bumazhnov12, G. Bunce3,32, J. Burward-Hoy28, S. Butsyk28,30, T. A. Carey19, P. Chand2, J. Chang5, W. C. Chang1, L. L. Chavez25, S. Chernichenko12, C. Y. Chi8, J. Chiba14, M. Chiu8, R. K. Choudhury2, T. Christ28, T. Chujo3,39, M. S. Chung15,19, P. Chung27, V. Cianciolo29, B. A. Cole8, D. G. D’Enterria34, G. David3, H. Delagrange34, A. Denisov12, A. Deshpande32, E. J. Desmond3, O. Dietzsch33, B. V. Dinesh2, A. Drees28, A. Durum12, D. Dutta2, K. Ebisu24, Y. V. Efremenko29, K. El Chenawi40, H. En’yo17,31, S. Esumi39, L. Ewell3, T. Ferdousi5, D. E. Fields25, S. L. Fokin16, Z. Fraenkel42, A. Franz3, A. D. Frawley9, S.-Y. Fung5, S. Garpman20,*, T. K. Ghosh40, A. Glenn36, A. L. Godoi33, Y. Goto32, S. V. Greene40, M. Grosse Perdekamp32, S. K. Gupta2, W. Guryn3, H.-Å. Gustafsson20, J. S. Haggerty3, H. Hamagaki7, A. G. Hansen19, H. Hara24, E. P. Hartouni18, R. Hayano38, N. Hayashi31, X. He10, T. K. Hemmick28, J. M. Heuser28, M. Hibino41, J. C. Hill13, D. S. Ho43, K. Homma11, B. Hong15, A. Hoover26, T. Ichihara31,32, K. Imai17,31, M. S. Ippolitov16, M. Ishihara31,32, B. V. Jacak28,32, W. Y. Jang15, J. Jia28, B. M. Johnson3, S. C. Johnson18,28, K. S. Joo23, S. Kametani41, J. H. Kang43, M. Kann30, S. S. Kapoor2, S. Kelly8, B. Khachaturov42, A. Khanzadeev30, J. Kikuchi41, D. J. Kim43, H. J. Kim43, S. Y. Kim43, Y. G. Kim43, W. W. Kinnison19, E. Kistenev3, A. Kiyomichi39, C. Klein-Boesing22, S. Klinksiek25, L. Kochenda30, V. Kochetkov12, D. Koehler25, T. Kohama11, D. Kotchetkov5, A. Kozlov42, P. J. Kroon3, K. Kurita31,32, M. J. Kweon15, Y. Kwon43, G. S. Kyle26, R. Lacey27, J. G. Lajoie13, J. Lauret27, A. Lebedev13,16, D. M. Lee19, M. J. Leitch19, X. H. Li5, Z. Li6,31, D. J. Lim43, M. X. Liu19, X. Liu6, Z. Liu6, C. F. Maguire40, J. Mahon3, Y. I. Makdisi3, V. I. Manko16, Y. Mao6,31, S. K. Mark21, S. Markacs8, G. Martinez34, M. D. Marx28, A. Masaike17, F. Matathias28, T. Matsumoto7,41, P. L. McGaughey19, E. Melnikov12, M. Merschmeyer22, F. Messer28, M. Messer3, Y. Miake39, T. E. Miller40, A. Milov42, S. Mioduszewski3,36, R. E. Mischke19, G. C. Mishra10, J. T. Mitchell3, A. K. Mohanty2, D. P. Morrison3, J. M. Moss19, F. Mühlbacher28, M. Muniruzzaman5, J. Murata31, S. Nagamiya14, Y. Nagasaka24, J. L. Nagle8, Y. Nakada17, B. K. Nandi5, J. Newby36, L. Nikkinen21, P. Nilsson20, S. Nishimura7, A. S. Nyanin16, J. Nystrand20, E. O’Brien3, C. A. Ogilvie13, H. Ohnishi3,11, I. D. Ojha4,40, M. Ono39, V. Onuchin12, A. Oskarsson20, L. Österman20, I. Otterlund20, K. Oyama7,38, L. Paffrath3,*, A. P. T. Palounek19, V. S. Pantuev28, V. Papavassiliou26, S. F. Pate26, T. Peitzmann22, A. N. Petridis13, C. Pinkenburg3,27, R. P. Pisani3, P. Pitukhin12, F. Plasil29, M. Pollack28,36, K. Pope36, M. L. Purschke3, I. Ravinovich42, K. F. Read29,36, K. Reygers22, V. Riabov30,35, Y. Riabov30, M. Rosati13, A. A. Rose40, S. S. Ryu43, N. Saito31,32, A. Sakaguchi11, T. Sakaguchi7,41, H. Sako39, T. Sakuma31,37, V. Samsonov30, T. C. Sangster18, R. Santo22, H. D. Sato17,31, S. Sato39, S. Sawada14, B. R. Schlei19, Y. Schutz34, V. Semenov12, R. Seto5, T. K. Shea3, I. Shein12, T.-A. Shibata31,37, K. Shigaki14, T. Shiina19, Y. H. Shin43, I. G. Sibiriak16, D. Silvermyr20, K. S. Sim15, J. Simon-Gillo19, C. P. Singh4, V. Singh4, M. Sivertz3, A. Soldatov12, R. A. Soltz18, S. Sorensen29,36, P. W. Stankus29, N. Starinsky21, P. Steinberg8, E. Stenlund20, A. Ster44, S. P. Stoll3, M. Sugioka31,37, T. Sugitate11, J. P. Sullivan19, Y. Sumi11, Z. Sun6, M. Suzuki39, E. M. Takagui33, A. Taketani31, M. Tamai41, K. H. Tanaka14, Y. Tanaka24, E. Taniguchi31,37, M. J. Tannenbaum3, J. Thomas28, J. H. Thomas18, T. L. Thomas25, W. Tian6,36, J. Tojo17,31, H. Torii17,31, R. S. Towell19, I. Tserruya42, H. Tsuruoka39, A. A. Tsvetkov16, S. K. Tuli4, H. Tydesjö20, N. Tyurin12, T. Ushiroda24, H. W. van Hecke19, C. Velissaris26, J. Velkovska28, M. Velkovsky28, A. A. Vinogradov16, M. A. Volkov16, A. Vorobyov30, E. Vznuzdaev30, H. Wang5, Y. Watanabe31,32, S. N. White3, C. Witzig3, F. K. Wohn13, C. L. Woody3, W. Xie5,42, K. Yagi39, S. Yokkaichi31, G. R. Young29, I. E. Yushmanov16, W. A. Zajc8, Z. Zhang28, and S. Zhou6 (PHENIX Collaboration)
1Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
2Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay 400 085, India
3Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000
4Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
5University of California–Riverside, Riverside, California 92521
6China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE), Beijing, People’s Republic of China
7Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
8Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533
9Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306
10Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
11Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
12Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, Russia
13Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
14KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-0801, Japan
15Korea University, Seoul, 136-701, Korea
16Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute,” Moscow, Russia
17Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan
18Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550
19Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
20Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
21McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T8
22Institut für Kernphysik, University of Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
23Myongji University, Yongin, Kyonggido 449-728, Korea
24Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki 851-0193, Japan
25University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
26New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003
27Chemistry Department, State University of New York–Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794
28Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York–Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794
29Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
30PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
31RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
32RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000
33Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, São Paulo CEP05315-970, Brazil
34SUBATECH (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, IN2P3/CNRS, Universite de Nantes), BP 20722-44307, Nantes-Cedex 3, France
35St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
36University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
37Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan
38University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
39Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
40Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
41Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 17 Kikui-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0044, Japan
42Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel
43IPAP, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea
44KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (RMKI), Budapest, Hungary
Received 11 April 2002; published 30 October 2002
Two-particle azimuthal correlation functions are presented for charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (√sNN=130 GeV). The measurements permit determination of elliptic flow without event-by-event estimation of the reaction plane. The extracted elliptic flow values (v2) show significant sensitivity to both the collision centrality and the transverse momenta of emitted hadrons, suggesting rapid thermalization and relatively strong velocity fields. When scaled by the eccentricity of the collision zone ε, the scaled elliptic flow shows little or no dependence on centrality for charged hadrons with relatively low pT. A breakdown of this ε scaling is observed for charged hadrons with pT >1.0 GeV/c.
© 2002 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.212301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.212301
*Deceased. †Not a participating institution.
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