Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Energy and system-size dependence of two- and four-particle $v_2$ measurements in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and their implications on flow fluctuations and nonflow |
| Authors: |
The STAR Collaboration, Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Calderon, M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., de Souza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y. |
| Publication Year: |
2011 |
| Collection: |
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment |
| Subject Terms: |
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| More Details: |
We present STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropy by means of the two- and four-particle cumulants $v_2$ ($v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$) for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at center of mass energies $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}} = 62.4$ and 200 GeV. The difference between $v_2\{2\}^2$ and $v_2\{4\}^2$ is related to $v_{2}$ fluctuations ($\sigma_{v_2}$) and nonflow $(\delta_{2})$. We present an upper limit to $\sigma_{v_2}/v_{2}$. Following the assumption that eccentricity fluctuations $\sigma_{\epsilon}$ dominate $v_2$ fluctuations $\frac{\sigma_{v_2}}{v_2} \approx \frac{\sigma_{\epsilon}}{\epsilon}$ we deduce the nonflow implied for several models of eccentricity fluctuations that would be required for consistency with $v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$. We also present results on the ratio of $v_2$ to eccentricity.
Comment: 15 pages, 12 Figures |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevC.86.014904 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5637 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.1111.5637 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
