Azimuthal anisotropy at the relativistic heavy ion collider: the first and fourth harmonics. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report the first observations of the first harmonic (directed flow, v(1)) and the fourth harmonic (v(4)), in the azimuthal distribution of particles with respect to the reaction plane in Au+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Both measurements were done taking advantage of the large elliptic flow (v(2)) generated at RHIC. From the correlation of v(2) with v(1) it is determined that v(2) is positive, or in-plane. The integrated v(4) is about a factor of 10 smaller than v(2). For the sixth (v(6)) and eighth (v(8)) harmonics upper limits on the magnitudes are reported.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Adams, J., Adler, C., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., ... STAR Collaboration.

citation count

  • 191

complete list of authors

  • Adams, J||Adler, C||Aggarwal, MM||Ahammed, Z||Amonett, J||Anderson, BD||Anderson, M||Arkhipkin, D||Averichev, GS||Badyal, SK||Balewski, J||Barannikova, O||Barnby, LS||Baudot, J||Bekele, S||Belaga, VV||Bellwied, R||Berger, J||Bezverkhny, BI||Bhardwaj, S||Bhaskar, P||Bhati, AK||Bichsel, H||Billmeier, A||Bland, LC||Blyth, CO||Bonner, BE||Botje, M||Boucham, A||Brandin, A||Bravar, A||Cadman, RV||Cai, XZ||Caines, H||Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, M||Carroll, J||Castillo, J||Castro, M||Cebra, D||Chaloupka, P||Chattopadhyay, S||Chen, HF||Chen, Y||Chernenko, SP||Cherney, M||Chikanian, A||Choi, B||Christie, W||Coffin, JP||Cormier, TM||Cramer, JG||Crawford, HJ||Das, D||Das, S||Derevschikov, AA||Didenko, L||Dietel, T||Dong, WJ||Dong, X||Draper, JE||Du, F||Dubey, AK||Dunin, VB||Dunlop, JC||Dutta Majumdar, MR||Eckardt, V||Efimov, LG||Emelianov, V||Engelage, J||Eppley, G||Erazmus, B||Estienne, M||Fachini, P||Faine, V||Faivre, J||Fatemi, R||Filimonov, K||Filip, P||Finch, E||Fisyak, Y||Flierl, D||Foley, KJ||Fu, J||Gagliardi,
  • Adams, J||Adler, C||Aggarwal, MM||Ahammed, Z||Amonett, J||Anderson, BD||Anderson, M||Arkhipkin, D||Averichev, GS||Badyal, SK||Balewski, J||Barannikova, O||Barnby, LS||Baudot, J||Bekele, S||Belaga, VV||Bellwied, R||Berger, J||Bezverkhny, BI||Bhardwaj, S||Bhaskar, P||Bhati, AK||Bichsel, H||Billmeier, A||Bland, LC||Blyth, CO||Bonner, BE||Botje, M||Boucham, A||Brandin, A||Bravar, A||Cadman, RV||Cai, XZ||Caines, H||Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, M||Carroll, J||Castillo, J||Castro, M||Cebra, D||Chaloupka, P||Chattopadhyay, S||Chen, HF||Chen, Y||Chernenko, SP||Cherney, M||Chikanian, A||Choi, B||Christie, W||Coffin, JP||Cormier, TM||Cramer, JG||Crawford, HJ||Das, D||Das, S||Derevschikov, AA||Didenko, L||Dietel, T||Dong, WJ||Dong, X||Draper, JE||Du, F||Dubey, AK||Dunin, VB||Dunlop, JC||Dutta Majumdar, MR||Eckardt, V||Efimov, LG||Emelianov, V||Engelage, J||Eppley, G||Erazmus, B||Estienne, M||Fachini, P||Faine, V||Faivre, J||Fatemi, R||Filimonov, K||Filip, P||Finch, E||Fisyak, Y||Flierl, D||Foley, KJ||Fu, J||Gagliardi, CA||Gagunashvili, N||Gans, J||Ganti, MS||Gaudichet, L||Germain, M||Geurts, F||Ghazikhanian, V||Ghosh, P||Gonzalez, JE||Grachov, O||Grigoriev, V||Gronstal, S||Grosnick, D||Guedon, M||Guertin, SM||Gupta, A||Gushin, E||Gutierrez, TD||Hallman, TJ||Hardtke, D||Harris, JW||Heinz, M||Henry, TW||Heppelmann, S||Herston, T||Hippolyte, B||Hirsch, A||Hjort, E||Hoffmann, GW||Horsley, M||Huang, HZ||Huang, SL||Humanic, TJ||Igo, G||Ishihara, A||Jacobs, P||Jacobs, WW||Janik, M||Jiang, H||Johnson, I||Jones, PG||Judd, EG||Kabana, S||Kaneta, M||Kaplan, M||Keane, D||Khodyrev, V Yu||Kiryluk, J||Kisiel, A||Klay, J||Klein, SR||Klyachko, A||Koetke, DD||Kollegger, T||Kopytine, M||Kotchenda, L||Kovalenko, AD||Kramer, M||Kravtsov, P||Kravtsov, VI||Krueger, K||Kuhn, C||Kulikov, AI||Kumar, A||Kunde, GJ||Kunz, CL||Kutuev, R Kh||Kuznetsov, AA||Lamont, MAC||Landgraf, JM||Lange, S||Lansdell, CP||Lasiuk, B||Laue, F||Lauret, J||Lebedev, A||Lednický, R||LeVine, MJ||Li, C||Li, Q||Lindenbaum, SJ||Lisa, MA||Liu, F||Liu, L||Liu, Z||Liu, QJ||Ljubicic, T||Llope, WJ||Long, H||Longacre, RS||Lopez-Noriega, M||Love, WA||Ludlam, T||Lynn, D||Ma, J||Ma, YG||Magestro, D||Mahajan, S||Mangotra, LK||Mahapatra, DP||Majka, R||Manweiler, R||Margetis, S||Markert, C||Martin, L||Marx, J||Matis, HS||Matulenko, Yu A||McShane, TS||Meissner, F||Melnick, Yu||Meschanin, A||Messer, M||Miller, ML||Milosevich, Z||Minaev, NG||Mironov, C||Mishra, D||Mitchell, J||Mohanty, B||Molnar, L||Moore, CF||Mora-Corral, MJ||Morozov, DA||Morozov, V||de Moura, MM||Munhoz, MG||Nandi, BK||Nayak, SK||Nayak, TK||Nelson, JM||Nevski, P||Nikitin, VA||Nogach, LV||Norman, B||Nurushev, SB||Odyniec, G||Ogawa, A||Okorokov, V||Oldenburg, M||Olson, D||Paic, G||Pandey, SU||Pal, SK||Panebratsev, Y||Panitkin, SY||Pavlinov, AI||Pawlak, T||Perevoztchikov, V||Perkins, C||Peryt, W||Petrov, VA||Phatak, SC||Picha, R||Planinic, M||Pluta, J||Porile, N||Porter, J||Poskanzer, AM||Potekhin, M||Potrebenikova, E||Potukuchi, BVKS||Prindle, D||Pruneau, C||Putschke, J||Rai, G||Rakness, G||Raniwala, R||Raniwala, S||Ravel, O||Ray, RL||Razin, SV||Reichhold, D||Reid, JG||Renault, G||Retiere, F||Ridiger, A||Ritter, HG||Roberts, JB||Rogachevski, OV||Romero, JL||Rose, A||Roy, C||Ruan, LJ||Sahoo, R||Sakrejda, I||Salur, S||Sandweiss, J||Savin, I||Schambach, J||Scharenberg, RP||Schmitz, N||Schroeder, LS||Schweda, K||Seger, J||Seliverstov, D||Seyboth, P||Shahaliev, E||Shao, M||Sharma, M||Shestermanov, KE||Shimanskii, SS||Singaraju, RN||Simon, F||Skoro, G||Smirnov, N||Snellings, R||Sood, G||Sorensen, P||Sowinski, J||Spinka, HM||Srivastava, B||Stanislaus, S||Stock, R||Stolpovsky, A||Strikhanov, M||Stringfellow, B||Struck, C||Suaide, AAP||Sugarbaker, E||Suire, C||Sumbera, M||Surrow, B||Symons, TJM||de Toledo, A Szanto||Szarwas, P||Tai, A||Takahashi, J||Tang, AH||Thein, D||Thomas, JH||Tikhomirov, V||Tokarev, M||Tonjes, MB||Trainor, TA||Trentalange, S||Tribble, RE||Trivedi, MD||Trofimov, V||Tsai, O||Ullrich, T||Underwood, DG||Van Buren, G||VanderMolen, AM||Vasiliev, AN||Vasiliev, M||Vigdor, SE||Viyogi, YP||Voloshin, SA||Waggoner, W||Wang, F||Wang, G||Wang, XL||Wang, ZM||Ward, H||Watson, JW||Wells, R||Westfall, GD||Whitten, C||Wieman, H||Willson, R||Wissink, SW||Witt, R||Wood, J||Wu, J||Xu, N||Xu, Z||Xu, ZZ||Yamamoto, E||Yepes, P||Yurevich, VI||Zanevski, YV||Zborovský, I||Zhang, H||Zhang, WM||Zhang, ZP||Zołnierczuk, PA||Zoulkarneev, R||Zoulkarneeva, J||Zubarev, AN

publication date

  • February 2004