Measurement of the higher-order anisotropic flow coefficients for identified hadrons in Au + Au collisions at
= 200 GeV
=200GeVでの金+金衝突におけるハドロンの異方的フローの高次項の測定
Adare, A.*; 今井 憲一; 永宮 正治; 谷田 聖
; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他385名*
Adare, A.*; Imai, Kenichi; Nagamiya, Shoji; Tanida, Kiyoshi; PHENIX Collaboration*; 385 of others*
Measurements of the anisotropic flow coefficients
,
,
, and
, for identified particles (
,
, and
) at midrapidity, obtained relative to the event planes
at forward rapidities in Au + Au collisions at
200 GeV, are presented as a function of collision centrality and particle transverse momenta
. The
coefficients show characteristic patterns consistent with hydrodynamical expansion of the matter produced in the collisions. For each harmonic
, a modified valence quark-number
scaling [plotting
versus transverse kinetic energies
] is observed to yield a single curve for all the measured particle species for a broad range of
. A simultaneous blast-wave model fit to the observed
coefficients and published particle spectra identifies radial flow anisotropies
and spatial eccentricities
at freeze-out. These are generally smaller than the initial-state participant-plane geometric eccentricities
as also observed in the final eccentricity from quantum interferometry measurements with respect to the event plane.