Elliptic flow in Au + Au collisions at sqrt √sNN = 130 GeV

K. H. Ackermann, N. Adams, Clemens Adler, Zubayer Ahammed, Shakeel Ahmad, Chris Allgower, J. Amsbaugh, Mike Anderson, E. Anderssen, H. Arnesen, L. Arnold, Georgy S. Averichev, A. Baldwin, Jan Balewski, Olga Barannikova, Lee Stuart Barnby, Jérome Baudot, Michael E. Beddo, Selemon Bekele, Victoria Vladimirovna Belaga, Rene Bellwied, Samuel Bennett, J. Bercovitz, Jens Berger, W. Betts, Hans Bichsel, Fred Bieser, Leslie C. Bland, Matthew A. Bloomer, Charles O. Blyth, J. Boehm, Billy E. Bonner, D. Bonnet, R. Bossingham, M. Botlo, Abdelkrim Boucham, N. Bouillo, S. Bouvier, K. Bradley, Franklin Paul Brady, E. S. Braithwaite, Wilfred J. Braithwaite, Andrei V. Brandin, R. L. Brown, G. Brugalette, C. Byrd, Helen Louise Caines, Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, Andrés Cardenas, Lincoln D. Carr, J. Carroll, Javier Ernesto Castillo Castellanos, B. Caylor, Daniel A. Cebra, S. Chatopadhyay, M. L. Chen, W. Chen, Y. Chen, Sergey P. Chernenko, Michael Gerard Cherney, Alexei Chikanian, B. Choi, J. Chrin, William Christie, Jean Pierre Coffin, Laurent Conin, C. Consiglio, Thomas Michael Cormier, John G. Cramer, Henry J. Crawford, V. I. Danilov, D. Dayton, M. DeMello, W. S. Deng, Anatoly A. Derevschikov, M. Dialinas, H. Diaz, P. A. DeYoung, Lidia Didenko, D. Dimassimo, J. Dioguardi, W. Dominik, C. Drancourt, James E. Draper, V. B. Dunin, James C. Dunlop, Volker Eckardt, W. R. Edwards, Leonid G. Efimov, Tobias Eggert, V. Emelianov, Jon M. Engelage, Geary Wareham Eppley, Barbara Ewa Erazmus, A. Etkin, Patricia Fachini, C. Feliciano, Daniel Ferenc, M. I. Ferguson, H. Fessler, Evan Finch, Valeri Fine, Yuri V. Fisyak, Dominik Bernhard Flierl, I. Flores, K. J. Foley, D. Fritz, N. Gagunashvili, J. Gans, Marek Gaździcki, Marie Germain, Frank Geurts, Vahe Ghazikhanian, C. Gojak, J. Grabski, Oleg A. Grachov, M. Grau, D. Greiner, Leo Clifford Greiner, Vladislav A. Grigoriev, David P. Grosnick, J. Gross, G. Guilloux, E. Gushin, J. Hall, Timothy J. Hallman, David H. Hardtke, G. Harper, John W. Harris, P. He, Michael D. Heffner, Steven Francis Heppelmann, T. Herston, D. Hill, Boris Hippolyte, Andrew S. Hirsch, Eric Hjort, Gerald W. Hoffmann, M. Horsley, Mark A. Howe, Huan Zhong Huang, Thomas J. Humanic, Holm Gero Hümmler, W. Hunt, J. Hunter, George J. Igo, A. Ishihara, Yu. I. Ivanshin, Peter Martin Jacobs, William W. Jacobs, S. Jacobson, R. Jared, P. Jensen, I. Johnson, Peter Graham Jones, Eleanor G. Judd, Kaneta Kaneta, Morton Kaplan, Declan Keane, V. P. Kenney, A. Khodinov, Jennifer Lynn Klay, Spencer Robert Klein, A. Klyachko, G. Koehler, A. S. Konstantinov, V. Kormilitsyne, L. Kotchenda, I. Kotov, A. D. Kovalenko, M. Kramer, Peter Kravtsov, Keith William Krueger, T. Krupien, P. Kuczewski, Christian Claude Kuhn, Gerd J. Kunde, Christopher Lee Kunz, R. Kh. Kutuev, A. A. Kuznetsov, L. Lakehal-Ayat, Jose Lamas-Valverde, Matthew A. C. Lamont, Jeffery M. Landgraf, S. Lange, Curtis Patrick Leon Lansdell, Brian Lasiuk, Frank Laue, Alexei Lebedev, T. LeCompte, W. J. Leonhardt, V. M. Leontiev, P. Leszczynski, Micheal J. LeVine, Q. Li, Q. Li, Z. Li, C.-J. Liaw, J. Lin, Sam J. Lindenbaum, Volker Lindenstruth, P. J. Lindstrom, Michael A. Lisa, H. Liu, Tonko A. Ljubicic, William Joseph Llope, G. LoCurto, H. Long, Ronald S. Longacre, M. Lopez-Noriega, D. Lopiano, William A. Love, J. R. Lutz, David Lynn, L. Madansky, R. Maier, Richard Daniel Majka, A. Maliszewski, Spyridon Margetis, K. Marks, R. Marstaller, L. Martin, Jay N. Marx, Howard S. Matis, Yuri A. Matulenko, E. A. Matyushevski, C. McParland, Tom S. McShane, J. Meier, Yu. Melnick, Aleksei P. Meščanin, P. Middlekamp, N. Mikhalin, B. Miller, Z. Milosevich, Nikolai G. Minaev, B. Minor, J. Mitchell, E. Mogavero, V. A. Moiseenko, D. Moltz, C. F. Moore, V. Morozov, Richard J. Morse, M. M. de Moura, Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz, G. S. Mutchler, John M. Nelson, P. Nevski, T. Ngo, M. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, Vladimir A. Nikitin, Larisa V. Nogach, T. Noggle, B. Norman, Sandibek B. Nurušev, Ted Nussbaum, Joakim Ingemar Nystrand, Grazyna Janina Odyniec, Akio Ogawa, C. A. Ogilvie, K. Olchanski, Markus D. Oldenburg, Douglas L. Olson, Gennadij A. Ososkov, G. Ott, D. Padrazo, Guy Paic, S. U. Pandey, Yuri Panebratsev, Sergei Yurievich Panitkin, A. I. Pavlinov, Tomasz Jan Pawlak, M. Pentia, V. Perevotchikov, Wiktor Stanislaw Peryt, V. A Petrov, W. Pinganaud, S. Pirogov, E. Platner, Jan Marian Pluta, I. Polk, Norbert T. Porile, Jeffrey Brent Porter, Arthur M. Poskanzer, E. Potrebenikova, Duncan J. Prindle, Claude A. Pruneau, J. Puskar-Pasewicz, Gulshan Rai, J. Rasson, Olivier Ravel, Robert L. Ray, Sergej V. Razin, Dennis Michael Reichhold, Jeffrey G. Reid, Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt, Fabrice Retiere, Alexey Ridiger, J. Riso, Hans Georg Ritter, Jabus B. Roberts, Dieter Röhrich, O. V. Rogachevski, Juan L. Romero, Christelle Sophie Roy, D. Russ, Vladimir L. Rykov, Iwona Sakrejda, R. Sanchez, Z. Sandler, Jack H. Sandweiss, P. Sappenfield, A. C. Saulys, Igor A. Savin, Joachim Schambach, Rolf Paul Scharenberg, J. Scheblien, R. Scheetz, R. Schlueter, Norbert Schmitz, Lee S. Schroeder, M. Schulz, Andreas Schüttauf, J. Sedlmeir, Janet Elizabeth Seger, D. Seliverstov, J. Seyboth, Peter Seyboth, R. Seymour, E. I. Shakaliev, Konstantin E. Shestermanov, Y. Shi, S. S. Shimanskii, Derek Shuman, V. S. Shvetcov, Goran P. Skoro, Nikolai Smirnov, L. P. Smykov, Raimond Snellings, K. Solberg, James Sowinski, Harold. M. Spinka, Brijesh Kumar Srivastava, Edward J. Stephenson, Reinhard Stock, Alexander Stolpovsky, N. Stone, R. Stone, Michail Nikolaevič Strichanov, Blair Stringfellow, Herbert Ströbele, Christof Struck, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo Suaide, Evan R. Sugarbaker, Christophe Pierre Suire, Timothy James MacNeil Symons, Jun Takahashi, Aihong Tang, A. Tarchini, J. Tarzian, James H. Thomas, V. Tikhomirov, Alejandro Szanto de Toledo, Shaheen Tonse, Thomas A. Trainor, Stephen Trentalange, Mikhail V. Tokarev, Marguerite Belt Tonjes, V. Trofimov, Oleg D. Tsai, K. Turner, Thomas Ullrich, David G. Underwood, I. Vakula, Gene Van Buren, A. M. VanderMolen, A. Vanyashin, I. M. Vasilevski, Alexander Nikolaevich Vasiliev, Steven E. Vigdor, G. Visser, Sergei Voloshin, C. Vu, F. Wang, H. Ward, Dhammika D. Weerasundara, R. Weidenbach, R. Wells, R. Wells, T. Wenaus, Gary D. Westfall, J. P. Whitfield, Charles A. Whitten, Howard Wieman, Robert Willson, K. Wilson, Joana Wirth, J. Wisdom, Scott W. Wissink, Richard Witt, J. Wolf, Lindsay Wood, N. Xu, Z. Xu, A. E. Yakutin, E. Yamamoto, J. Yang, Pablo P. Yepes, A. Yokosawa, Vladimir Yurevich Yurevich, Y. V. Zanevski, J. Zhang, W. M. Zhang, Jianhui Zhu, D. Zimmerman, R. Zoulkarneev, A. N. Zubarev

  • Elliptic flow from nuclear collisions is a hadronic observable sensitive to the early stages of system evolution. We report first results on elliptic flow of charged particles at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN] = 130 GeV using the STAR Time Projection Chamber at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The elliptic flow signal, v2, averaged over transverse momentum, reaches values of about 6% for relatively peripheral collisions and decreases for the more central collisions. This can be interpreted as the observation of a higher degree of thermalization than at lower collision energies. Pseudorapidity and transverse momentum dependence of elliptic flow are also presented.

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Author:K. H. Ackermann, N. Adams, Clemens AdlerGND, Zubayer AhammedORCiD, Shakeel AhmadORCiD, Chris Allgower, J. Amsbaugh, Mike Anderson, E. Anderssen, H. Arnesen, L. Arnold, Georgy S. AverichevGND, A. Baldwin, Jan Balewski, Olga Barannikova, Lee Stuart BarnbyORCiD, Jérome BaudotORCiD, Michael E. Beddo, Selemon BekeleORCiD, Victoria Vladimirovna Belaga, Rene BellwiedGND, Samuel BennettORCiD, J. Bercovitz, Jens BergerGND, W. Betts, Hans Bichsel, Fred Bieser, Leslie C. BlandORCiD, Matthew A. Bloomer, Charles O. Blyth, J. Boehm, Billy E. Bonner, D. Bonnet, R. Bossingham, M. Botlo, Abdelkrim Boucham, N. Bouillo, S. Bouvier, K. Bradley, Franklin Paul Brady, E. S. Braithwaite, Wilfred J. Braithwaite, Andrei V. Brandin, R. L. Brown, G. Brugalette, C. Byrd, Helen Louise CainesORCiD, Manuel Calderón de la Barca SánchezORCiD, Andrés Cardenas, Lincoln D. CarrORCiDGND, J. Carroll, Javier Ernesto Castillo CastellanosORCiD, B. Caylor, Daniel A. CebraORCiD, S. Chatopadhyay, M. L. Chen, W. Chen, Y. Chen, Sergey P. Chernenko, Michael Gerard Cherney, Alexei Chikanian, B. Choi, J. Chrin, William ChristieORCiD, Jean Pierre Coffin, Laurent Conin, C. Consiglio, Thomas Michael Cormier, John G. CramerGND, Henry J. CrawfordORCiD, V. I. Danilov, D. Dayton, M. DeMello, W. S. Deng, Anatoly A. Derevschikov, M. Dialinas, H. Diaz, P. A. DeYoung, Lidia Didenko, D. Dimassimo, J. Dioguardi, W. Dominik, C. Drancourt, James E. Draper, V. B. Dunin, James C. DunlopORCiD, Volker Eckardt, W. R. Edwards, Leonid G. Efimov, Tobias EggertGND, V. Emelianov, Jon M. Engelage, Geary Wareham Eppley, Barbara Ewa Erazmus, A. Etkin, Patricia Fachini, C. Feliciano, Daniel FerencORCiD, M. I. Ferguson, H. Fessler, Evan FinchORCiD, Valeri Fine, Yuri V. FisyakORCiD, Dominik Bernhard FlierlGND, I. Flores, K. J. Foley, D. Fritz, N. Gagunashvili, J. Gans, Marek GaździckiORCiDGND, Marie GermainORCiD, Frank GeurtsORCiD, Vahe Ghazikhanian, C. Gojak, J. Grabski, Oleg A. GrachovORCiD, M. Grau, D. Greiner, Leo Clifford GreinerORCiD, Vladislav A. Grigoriev, David P. Grosnick, J. Gross, G. Guilloux, E. Gushin, J. Hall, Timothy J. Hallman, David H. Hardtke, G. Harper, John W. HarrisORCiDGND, P. He, Michael D. HeffnerORCiD, Steven Francis Heppelmann, T. Herston, D. Hill, Boris Hippolyte, Andrew S. HirschORCiDGND, Eric Hjort, Gerald W. Hoffmann, M. Horsley, Mark A. Howe, Huan Zhong HuangORCiD, Thomas J. HumanicORCiD, Holm Gero HümmlerGND, W. Hunt, J. Hunter, George J. Igo, A. Ishihara, Yu. I. Ivanshin, Peter Martin JacobsORCiD, William W. JacobsORCiD, S. Jacobson, R. Jared, P. Jensen, I. Johnson, Peter Graham Jones, Eleanor G. JuddORCiD, Kaneta KanetaORCiD, Morton Kaplan, Declan KeaneORCiD, V. P. Kenney, A. Khodinov, Jennifer Lynn KlayORCiD, Spencer Robert KleinORCiD, A. Klyachko, G. Koehler, A. S. Konstantinov, V. Kormilitsyne, L. Kotchenda, I. Kotov, A. D. Kovalenko, M. Kramer, Peter KravtsovORCiD, Keith William Krueger, T. Krupien, P. Kuczewski, Christian Claude Kuhn, Gerd J. KundeORCiD, Christopher Lee Kunz, R. Kh. Kutuev, A. A. Kuznetsov, L. Lakehal-Ayat, Jose Lamas-Valverde, Matthew A. C. Lamont, Jeffery M. Landgraf, S. Lange, Curtis Patrick Leon Lansdell, Brian Lasiuk, Frank LaueGND, Alexei Lebedev, T. LeCompte, W. J. Leonhardt, V. M. Leontiev, P. Leszczynski, Micheal J. LeVine, Q. Li, Q. Li, Z. Li, C.-J. Liaw, J. Lin, Sam J. Lindenbaum, Volker Lindenstruth, P. J. Lindstrom, Michael A. LisaORCiDGND, H. Liu, Tonko A. Ljubicic, William Joseph LlopeORCiD, G. LoCurto, H. Long, Ronald S. Longacre, M. Lopez-Noriega, D. Lopiano, William A. Love, J. R. Lutz, David LynnORCiD, L. Madansky, R. Maier, Richard Daniel MajkaORCiD, A. Maliszewski, Spyridon Margetis, K. Marks, R. Marstaller, L. Martin, Jay N. Marx, Howard S. MatisORCiD, Yuri A. Matulenko, E. A. Matyushevski, C. McParland, Tom S. McShane, J. Meier, Yu. Melnick, Aleksei P. MeščaninGND, P. Middlekamp, N. Mikhalin, B. Miller, Z. Milosevich, Nikolai G. Minaev, B. Minor, J. Mitchell, E. Mogavero, V. A. Moiseenko, D. Moltz, C. F. Moore, V. Morozov, Richard J. Morse, M. M. de Moura, Marcelo Gameiro MunhozORCiD, G. S. Mutchler, John M. Nelson, P. Nevski, T. Ngo, M. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, Vladimir A. Nikitin, Larisa V. Nogach, T. Noggle, B. Norman, Sandibek B. NuruševGND, Ted Nussbaum, Joakim Ingemar Nystrand, Grazyna Janina Odyniec, Akio Ogawa, C. A. Ogilvie, K. Olchanski, Markus D. OldenburgGND, Douglas L. Olson, Gennadij A. OsoskovORCiDGND, G. Ott, D. Padrazo, Guy Paic, S. U. Pandey, Yuri Panebratsev, Sergei Yurievich PanitkinORCiD, A. I. Pavlinov, Tomasz Jan Pawlak, M. Pentia, V. Perevotchikov, Wiktor Stanislaw Peryt, V. A Petrov, W. Pinganaud, S. Pirogov, E. Platner, Jan Marian Pluta, I. Polk, Norbert T. Porile, Jeffrey Brent Porter, Arthur M. PoskanzerORCiDGND, E. Potrebenikova, Duncan J. Prindle, Claude A. PruneauORCiDGND, J. Puskar-Pasewicz, Gulshan Rai, J. Rasson, Olivier Ravel, Robert L. RayORCiD, Sergej V. RazinGND, Dennis Michael Reichhold, Jeffrey G. Reid, Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt, Fabrice Retiere, Alexey Ridiger, J. Riso, Hans Georg Ritter, Jabus B. Roberts, Dieter RöhrichORCiD, O. V. Rogachevski, Juan L. Romero, Christelle Sophie Roy, D. Russ, Vladimir L. Rykov, Iwona Sakrejda, R. Sanchez, Z. Sandler, Jack H. Sandweiss, P. Sappenfield, A. C. Saulys, Igor A. Savin, Joachim SchambachORCiD, Rolf Paul Scharenberg, J. Scheblien, R. Scheetz, R. Schlueter, Norbert SchmitzGND, Lee S. Schroeder, M. Schulz, Andreas SchüttaufGND, J. Sedlmeir, Janet Elizabeth SegerORCiD, D. Seliverstov, J. Seyboth, Peter SeybothORCiDGND, R. Seymour, E. I. Shakaliev, Konstantin E. Shestermanov, Y. Shi, S. S. ShimanskiiGND, Derek Shuman, V. S. Shvetcov, Goran P. SkoroORCiD, Nikolai Smirnov, L. P. Smykov, Raimond SnellingsORCiD, K. Solberg, James Sowinski, Harold. M. SpinkaORCiD, Brijesh Kumar Srivastava, Edward J. StephensonORCiD, Reinhard StockGND, Alexander Stolpovsky, N. Stone, R. Stone, Michail Nikolaevič StrichanovORCiDGND, Blair Stringfellow, Herbert Ströbele, Christof StruckGND, Alexandre Alarcon do Passo SuaideORCiD, Evan R. Sugarbaker, Christophe Pierre SuireORCiD, Timothy James MacNeil Symons, Jun TakahashiORCiD, Aihong TangORCiD, A. Tarchini, J. Tarzian, James H. ThomasORCiD, V. Tikhomirov, Alejandro Szanto de Toledo, Shaheen Tonse, Thomas A. TrainorORCiD, Stephen TrentalangeORCiD, Mikhail V. Tokarev, Marguerite Belt TonjesORCiD, V. Trofimov, Oleg D. Tsai, K. Turner, Thomas UllrichORCiDGND, David G. UnderwoodORCiD, I. Vakula, Gene Van BurenORCiD, A. M. VanderMolen, A. Vanyashin, I. M. Vasilevski, Alexander Nikolaevich Vasiliev, Steven E. VigdorGND, G. Visser, Sergei VoloshinORCiDGND, C. Vu, F. Wang, H. Ward, Dhammika D. Weerasundara, R. Weidenbach, R. Wells, R. Wells, T. Wenaus, Gary D. WestfallGND, J. P. Whitfield, Charles A. Whitten, Howard Wieman, Robert Willson, K. Wilson, Joana WirthORCiD, J. Wisdom, Scott W. WissinkORCiD, Richard WittORCiD, J. Wolf, Lindsay Wood, N. Xu, Z. Xu, A. E. Yakutin, E. Yamamoto, J. Yang, Pablo P. Yepes, A. Yokosawa, Vladimir Yurevich Yurevich, Y. V. Zanevski, J. Zhang, W. M. Zhang, Jianhui Zhu, D. Zimmerman, R. Zoulkarneev, A. N. Zubarev
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-18752
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.402
ISSN:1079-7114
Parent Title (German):Physical Review Letters
Publisher:American Physical Society
Place of publication:College Park, Md.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2005/10/14
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Creating Corporation:STAR Collaboration
Release Date:2005/10/14
Volume:86.2001
Issue:3
Page Number:6
First Page:402
Last Page:407
HeBIS-PPN:358583950
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
PACS-Classification:20.00.00 NUCLEAR PHYSICS / 25.00.00 Nuclear reactions: specific reactions / 25.75.-q Relativistic heavy-ion collisions (collisions induced by light ions studied to calibrate relativistic heavy-ion collisions should be classified under both 25.75.-q and sections 13 or 25 appropriate to the light ions) / 25.75.Ld Collective flow
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht