Published November 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of elliptic flow for charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at √(sNN)=200 GeV

  • 1. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4843 (United States)
  • 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000 (United States)
  • 3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (United States)

Description

This Rapid Communication describes the measurement of elliptic flow for charged particles in Au+Au collisions at √(sNN)=200 GeV using the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The measured azimuthal anisotropy is presented over a wide range of pseudorapidity for three broad collision centrality classes for the first time at this energy. Two distinct methods of extracting the flow signal were used to reduce systematic uncertainties. The elliptic flow falls sharply with increasing |η| at 200 GeV for all the centralities studied, as observed for minimum-bias collisions at √(sNN)=130 GeV

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 051901-051901.5
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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Notes
(c) 2005 The American Physical Society
Collaborations
PHOBOS Collaboration