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Multistrange Baryon elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at square root of sNN=200 GeV.
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Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2005 Sep 16; Vol. 95 (12), pp. 122301. Date of Electronic Publication: 2005 Sep 13. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- We report on the first measurement of elliptic flow v2(pT) of multistrange baryons Xi- +Xi+ and Omega- + Omega+ in heavy-ion collisions. In minimum-bias Au+Au collisions at square root of s(NN)=200 GeV, a significant amount of elliptic flow, comparable to other nonstrange baryons, is observed for multistrange baryons which are expected to be particularly sensitive to the dynamics of the partonic stage of heavy-ion collisions. The pT dependence of v2 of the multistrange baryons confirms the number of constituent quark scaling previously observed for lighter hadrons. These results support the idea that a substantial fraction of the observed collective motion is developed at the early partonic stage in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0031-9007
- Volume :
- 95
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Physical review letters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16197068
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.122301