Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2009-05-07
Phys.Rev.C80:024909,2009
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
347 authors, 27 pages text, RevTeX-4, 24 figures, 10 tables. Submitted to Physical Review C
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.80.024909
We present inclusive charged hadron elliptic flow v_2 measured over the pseudorapidity range |\eta| < 0.35 in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. Results for v_2 are presented over a broad range of transverse momentum (p_T = 0.2-8.0 GeV/c) and centrality (0-60%). In order to study non-flow effects that are not correlated with the reaction plane, as well as the fluctuations of v_2, we compare two different analysis methods: (1) event plane method from two independent sub-detectors at forward (|\eta| = 3.1-3.9) and beam (|\eta| > 6.5) pseudorapidities and (2) two-particle cumulant method extracted using correlations between particles detected at midrapidity. The two event-plane results are consistent within systematic uncertainties over the measured p_T and in centrality 0-40%. There is at most 20% difference of the v_2 between the two event plane methods in peripheral (40-60%) collisions. The comparisons between the two-particle cumulant results and the standard event plane measurements are discussed.
Afanasiev A.
PHENIX Collaboration
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