2002
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.212301
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Flow Measurements via Two-Particle Azimuthal Correlations inAu+AuCollisions atsNN

Abstract: Two particle azimuthal correlation functions are presented for charged hadrons produced in Au + Au collisions at RHIC ( √ s N N = 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 coll… Show more

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“…The v n values obtained using this method measure, in effect, the root-mean-square (r.m.s.) values of the eventby-event v n [43]. A detailed test of the factorization behavior was carried out [11,12] by comparing the v n (p T ) obtained for different p b T ranges, and factorization was found to hold to within 10% for p b T < 4 GeV for the centrality ranges studied in this paper.…”
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“…The v n values obtained using this method measure, in effect, the root-mean-square (r.m.s.) values of the eventby-event v n [43]. A detailed test of the factorization behavior was carried out [11,12] by comparing the v n (p T ) obtained for different p b T ranges, and factorization was found to hold to within 10% for p b T < 4 GeV for the centrality ranges studied in this paper.…”
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“…Because the v n obtained from the two-particle correlation method effectively measure the r.m.s. values of the event-by-event v n [43], a more appropriate quantity to characterize the collective response is the ratio of v n to the r.m.s. eccentricity [22,24]: v n / 2 n .…”
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“…Anisotropic transverse flow is sensitive to the early times of the collision, when the deconfined state of quarks and gluons is expected to dominate the collision dynamics (see reviews [1][2][3] and references therein), with a positive (in-plane) elliptic flow as first observed at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) [4,5]. A much stronger flow was subsequently measured at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) [6], Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) [7][8][9], and recently at the LHC [10][11][12]. Elliptic flow at RHIC and the LHC is reproduced by hydrodynamic model calculations with a small value of the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density [13][14][15][16].…”
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“…Another method (2PC) allows to extract v n coefficients from two-particle azimuthal correlations using the mixed events technique [3]. However, both EP and 2PC methods are potentially sensitive to non-flow correlations, not related to the initial geometry, which can result e.g.…”
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