Directed flow in Au plus Au collisions at √sNN=62.4 GeV -: art. no. 034903

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作者
Adams, J
Aggarwal, MM
Ahammed, Z
Amonett, J
Anderson, BD
Arkhipkin, D
Averichev, GS
Badyal, SK
Bai, Y
Balewski, J
Barannikova, O
Barnby, LS
Baudot, J
Bekele, S
Belaga, VV
Bellingeri-Laurikainen, A
Bellwied, R
Berger, J
Bezverkhny, BI
Bharadwaj, S
Bhasin, A
Bhati, AK
Bhatia, VS
Bichsel, H
Bielcik, J
Bielcikova, J
Billmeier, A
Bland, LC
Blyth, CO
Blyth, SL
Bonner, BE
Botje, M
Boucham, A
Bouchet, J
Brandin, AV
Bravar, A
Bystersky, M
Cadman, RV
Cai, XZ
Caines, H
Sánchez, MCD
Castillo, J
Catu, O
Cebra, D
Chajecki, Z
Chaloupka, P
Chattopadhyay, S
Chen, HF
Chen, JH
Chen, Y
机构
[1] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[2] Univ Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
[3] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[4] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[5] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[7] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[8] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[9] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[10] Creighton Univ, Omaha, NE 68178 USA
[11] Acad Sci Czech Republic, Inst Nucl Phys, CZ-25068 Rez, Czech Republic
[12] JINR, Lab High Energy, Dubna, Russia
[13] JINR, Particle Phys Lab, Dubna, Russia
[14] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, D-6000 Frankfurt, Germany
[15] Inst Phys, Bhubaneswar 751005, Orissa, India
[16] Indian Inst Technol, Bombay 400076, Maharashtra, India
[17] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA
[18] Inst Rech Subatom, Strasbourg, France
[19] Univ Jammu, Jammu 180001, India
[20] Kent State Univ, Kent, OH 44242 USA
[21] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[22] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[23] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[24] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[25] Moscow Engn Phys Inst, Moscow, Russia
[26] CUNY City Coll, New York, NY 10031 USA
[27] NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[28] Univ Utrecht, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[29] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[30] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[31] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[32] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[33] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[34] Pusan Natl Univ, Pusan 609735, South Korea
[35] Univ Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, Rajasthan, India
[36] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77251 USA
[37] Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[38] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, Peoples R China
[39] Shanghai Inst Appl Phys, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China
[40] SUBATECH, Nantes, France
[41] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[42] Univ Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[43] Tsinghua Univ, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[44] Valparaiso Univ, Valparaiso, IN 46383 USA
[45] Ctr Variable Energy Cyclotron, Kolkata 700064, W Bengal, India
[46] Warsaw Univ Technol, Warsaw, Poland
[47] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[48] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48201 USA
[49] HZNU, CCNU, Inst Particle Phys, Wuhan 430079, Peoples R China
[50] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW C | 2006年 / 73卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevC.73.034903
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
We present the directed flow (v(1)) measured in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=62.4 GeV in the midpseudorapidity region parallel to eta parallel to < 1.3 and in the forward pseudorapidity region 2.5 <parallel to eta parallel to < 4.0. The results are obtained using the three-particle cumulant method, the event plane method with mixed harmonics, and for the first time at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the standard method with the event plane reconstructed from spectator neutrons. Results from all three methods are in good agreement. Over the pseudorapidity range studied, charged particle directed flow is in the direction opposite to that of fragmentation neutrons.
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