Open Access

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, M. Beddo, Selemon Bekele, Victoria Vladimirovna Belaga, Rene Bellwied, Samuel Bennett, J. Bercovitz, Jens Berger, W. Betts, Hans Bichsel, F. 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, L. 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, T. Eggert, V. Emelianov, Jon M. Engelage, Geary Wareham Eppley, Barbara Ewa Erazmus, A. Etkin, Patricia Fachini, C. Feliciano, D. 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, M. Heffner, S. 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, H. Hümmler, W. Hunt, J. Hunter, George J. Igo, A. Ishihara, Yu. I. Ivanshin, P. 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, R. 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, T. Nussbaum, Joakim Ingemar Nystrand, Grazyna Janina Odyniec, Akio Ogawa, C. A. Ogilvie, K. Olchanski, Markus D. Oldenburg, Douglas L. Olson, G. A. Ososkov, G. Ott, D. Padrazo, Guy Paic, S. U. Pandey, Yuri Panebratsev, Sergei Yurievich Panitkin, Alexei 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, J. 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, Stepan S. Šimanskij, D. Shuman, V. S. Shvetcov, Goran P. Skoro, N. Smirnov, L. P. Smykov, Raimond Snellings, K. Solberg, James Sowinski, Harold. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, Edward J. Stephenson, Reinhard Stock, Alexander Stolpovsky, N. Stone, R. Stone, Michail Nikolaevič Strichanov, Blair Stringfellow, H. Stroebele, 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, S. 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, L. 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(s_NN)=130 GeV using the STAR TPC at RHIC. The elliptic flow signal, v_2, 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.