Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2005-09-27
Phys.Rev. C72 (2005) 064911
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
7 pages, 7 figures, revtex 4; The discussion on the non-flow effects is extended, a new figure (Fig.3) on v2-eccentricity corr
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.72.064911
The cumulant method is applied to study elliptic flow ($v_2$) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$AGeV, with the UrQMD model. In this approach, the true event plane is known and both the non-flow effects and event-by-event spatial ($\epsilon$) and $v_2$ fluctuations exist. Qualitatively, the hierarchy of $v_2$'s from two, four and six-particle cumulants is consistent with the STAR data, however, the magnitude of $v_2$ in the UrQMD model is only 60% of the data. We find that the four and six-particle cumulants are good measures of the real elliptic flow over a wide range of centralities except for the most central and very peripheral events. There the cumulant method is affected by the $v_2$ fluctuations. In mid-central collisions, the four and six-particle cumulants are shown to give a good estimation of the true differential $v_2$, especially at large transverse momentum, where the two-particle cumulant method is heavily affected by the non-flow effects.
Bleicher Marcus
Stoecker Horst
Zhu Xianglei
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