Measurement of elliptic flow of light nuclei atsNN=200, 62.4, 39, 27, 19.6, 11.5, and 7.7 GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

L Adamczyk,M Strikhanov,Y X Pan,T K Nayak,B S Page,Q Yang,I Upsal,D Tlusty,K Oh,H Qiu,R Pak,R Majka,J Jia,T Huang,X Chen,A Kisiel,R Stock,T G Dedovich,S Mckinzie,J H Lee,N Schmitz,S Heppelmann,G Eppley,L Ruan,J Deng,B K Nandi,D Mishra,S Salur,A Vossen,A Gibson,S Singha,Z Tang,I Chakaberia,H Z Huang,C M Du,S Raniwala,E Shahaliev,Y Pandit,T Tarnowsky,Y Wang,L Kochenda,J S Wang,B Huang,M Zyzak,P K Sahu,K D Landry,L V Nogach,H Caines,R Esha,L Song,M Vandenbroucke,S Y Noh,N Smirnov,N Shah,P Huck,J Seger,Z Shi,J Putschke,L Wen,J B Zhang,Z Chang,A I Hamad,P V Shanmuganathan,B Mohanty,P Seyboth,J L Drachenberg,J Zhao,O Eyser,A Chatterjee,S S Shi,L He,B Stringfellow,D Smirnov,O Rusnakova,H Zbroszczyk,W Zha,J M Campbell,R Raniwala,S Das,J Bouchet,L Ma,M J Skoby,K Kang,A M Schmah,X Luo,J Zhang,E G Judd,W Xie,D Keane,B Summa,H Pei,D N Svirida,L C Bland,B Srivastava,P Pile,A K Bhati,Z H Khan,C Markert,T Lin,G D Westfall,Y Guo,J H Thomas,W B Schmidke,P Chaloupka,P Yepes,O V Rogachevskiy,E P Sichtermann,X P Zhang,O Evdokimov,P Sorensen,R Varma,Y Li,A Attri,W Q Shen,M Calderón De La Barca Sánchez,A M Poskanzer,J L Romero,C A Gagliardi,H Wang,I Bunzarov,G Odyniec,L G Efimov,Y Zhang,J H Chen,I Alekseev,L Kumar,A Bhasin,G Van Nieuwenhuizen,G Agakishiev,D G Underwood,A Tawfik,W Guryn,C Perkins,D Cebra,J Lauret,K Krueger,M Shao,Md Nasim,E C Aschenauer,D Mcdonald,A F Kraishan,Z Sun,A Jentsch,K Kauder,P Tribedy,D Kalinkin,R S Longacre,W J Llope,J Pluta,R Ma,I Sakrejda,N Yu,S A Voloshin,C Li,T J Humanic,Y Wu,J D Brandenburg,S W Wissink,T D S Stanislaus,L K Kosarzewski,S Margetis,G Wang,J M Landgraf,J C Webb,V Bairathi,S Chattopadhyay,G Xie,A A Derevschikov,G Webb,R Witt,D Arkhipkin,Z Ahammed,S Kabana,Q H Xu,M Posik,Z Ye,R Fatemi,H S Matis,A Kechechyan,Y Fisyak,J C Mei,J C Dunlop,B Sharma,N Magdy,X Dong,A Aparin,C Yang,D D Koetke,J Thäder,X Zhu,M Tokarev,M A Lisa,Y Zoulkarneeva,Z Feng,J K Adkins,W Li,N Xu,R P Scharenberg,B Surrow,P Federic,G W Hoffmann,G Nigmatkulov,Y Panebratsev,L Didenko,K Yip,L E Dunkelberger,M K Mustafa,J Engelage,A Gupta,F Liu,R E Tribble,M Simko,G S Averichev,L C De Silva,S Yang,J Sandweiss,R Bellwied,K Meehan,M Cherney,S Fazio,K Jiang,I Kisel,A Hamed,N G Minaev,H Wieman,R L Ray,P Bhattarai,J E Draper,H J Crawford,D Grosnick,K Poniatowska,M Stepanov,W W Jacobs,A V Brandin,M M Aggarwal,D Olvitt,O D Tsai,K Xin,B Pawlik,S Horvat,D P Kikoła,N K Pruthi,A H Tang,A Lebedev,A Hirsch,F Videbæk,G Contin,J Cheng,B Di Ruzza,L Greiner,H W Ke,S K Tripathy,J Porter,T Niida,X M Sun,S Mioduszewski,A Quintero,T Ullrich,D S Gunarathne,I G Bordyuzhin,D Garand,P Filip,S B Nurushev,L Yi,G Igo,W Christie,G Van Buren,A R Timmins,F Wang,Z Zhang,M Lomnitz,H M Spinka,J W Harris,S Zhang,S Trentalange,M M Mondal,A Ogawa,C Dilks,X Li,A Sarkar,R Sikora,X Huang,R Haque,W Solyst,A Manion,S Ramachandran,T Todoroki,Z Xu,Johann Joachim Schambach ,S Vokál ,M A.c Lamont ,M Šumbera ,C Flores ,Ł Fulek ,R Vértesi ,R Debbe ,S K Gupta ,Zhong Chen ,Yifeng Sun ,Y G ,J Fedorišin ,Y Xu ,J Rusňák ,R Lednický ,Xiao Zhang ,Xiaozhi Bai ,H.g Ritter ,J Bielčík ,Yi-Bo Yang ,J Bielčíková ,J M Butterworth ,J Novák ,П Кравцов ,Jun Xu ,Д А Морозов ,A Vasiliev ,N Sahoo ,Q Shou ,G L ,T Ljubičić ,J Roberts ,F J M Geurts ,I K Yoo ,H J Jang ,Long Zhou ,M Fusco Girard ,M Sharma ,H S Xu ,V Okorokov

doi:10.1103/physrevc.94.034908

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Author(s): Adamczyk, L; Adkins, JK; Agakishiev, G; Aggarwal, MM; Ahammed, Z; Alekseev, I; Aparin, A; Arkhipkin, D; Aschenauer, EC; Attri, A; Averichev, GS; Bai, X; Bairathi, V; Bellwied, R; Bhasin, A; Bhati, AK; Bhattarai, P; Bielcik, J; Bielcikova, J; Bland, LC; Bordyuzhin, IG; Bouchet, J; Brandenburg, JD; Brandin, AV; Bunzarov, I; Butterworth, J; Caines, H; Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, M; Campbell, JM; Cebra, D; Chakaberia, I; Chaloupka, P; Chang, Z; Chatterjee, A; Chattopadhyay, S; Chen, JH; Chen, X; Cheng, J; Cherney, M; Christie, W; Contin, G; Crawford, HJ; Das, S; De Silva, LC; Debbe, RR; Dedovich, TG; Deng, J; Derevschikov, AA; Di Ruzza, B; Didenko, L; Dilks, C; Dong, X; Drachenberg, JL; Draper, JE; Du, CM; Dunkelberger, LE; Dunlop, JC; Efimov, LG; Engelage, J; Eppley, G; Esha, R; Evdokimov, O; Eyser, O; Fatemi, R; Fazio, S; Federic, P; Fedorisin, J; Feng, Z; Filip, P; Fisyak, Y; Flores, CE; Fulek, L; Gagliardi, CA; Garand, D; Geurts, F; Gibson, A; Girard, M; Greiner, L; Grosnick, D; Gunarathne, DS; Guo, Y; Gupta, S; Gupta, A; Guryn, W; Hamad, AI | Abstract: We present measurements of second-order azimuthal anisotropy (v2) at midrapidity (|y|l1.0) for light nuclei d,t,He3 (for sNN=200, 62.4, 39, 27, 19.6, 11.5, and 7.7 GeV) and antinuclei d; (sNN=200, 62.4, 39, 27, and 19.6 GeV) and Hē3 (sNN=200 GeV) in the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) experiment. The v2 for these light nuclei produced in heavy-ion collisions is compared with those for p and p. We observe mass ordering in nuclei v2(pT) at low transverse momenta (pTl2.0 GeV/c). We also find a centrality dependence of v2 for d and d. The magnitude of v2 for t and He3 agree within statistical errors. Light-nuclei v2 are compared with predictions from a blast-wave model. Atomic mass number (A) scaling of light-nuclei v2(pT) seems to hold for pT/Al1.5GeV/c. Results on light-nuclei v2 from a transport-plus-coalescence model are consistent with the experimental measurements.

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