1. Reaction plane correlated triangular flow in Au+Au collisions at sNN=3 GeV
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Abdulhamid, MI, Aboona, BE, Adam, J, Adamczyk, L, Adams, JR, Aggarwal, I, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Aschenauer, EC, Aslam, S, Atchison, J, Bairathi, V, Ball, JG, Barish, K, Bellwied, R, Bhagat, P, Bhasin, A, Bhatta, S, Bhosale, SR, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Brandenburg, JD, Broodo, C, Cai, XZ, Caines, H, de la Barca Sánchez, M Calderón, Cebra, D, Ceska, J, Chakaberia, I, Chaloupka, P, Chan, BK, Chang, Z, Chatterjee, A, Chen, D, Chen, J, Chen, JH, Chen, Z, Cheng, J, Cheng, Y, Choudhury, S, Christie, W, Chu, X, Crawford, HJ, Csanád, M, Dale-Gau, G, Das, A, Deppner, IM, Dhamija, A, Dixit, P, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Duckworth, E, Dunlop, JC, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Esumi, S, Evdokimov, O, Eyser, O, Fatemi, R, Fazio, S, Feng, CJ, Feng, Y, Finch, E, Fisyak, Y, Flor, FA, Fu, C, Gagliardi, CA, Galatyuk, T, Gao, T, Geurts, F, Ghimire, N, Gibson, A, Gopal, K, Gou, X, Grosnick, D, Gupta, A, Guryn, W, Hamed, A, Han, Y, Harabasz, S, Harasty, MD, Harris, JW, Harrison-Smith, H, He, W, He, XH, He, Y, Herrmann, N, Holub, L, Hu, C, Hu, Q, Hu, Y, Huang, H, Huang, HZ, Huang, SL, Huang, T, Huang, X, Huang, Y, Humanic, TJ, and Isshiki, M
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics ,Particle and High Energy Physics ,Synchrotrons and Accelerators ,Physical Sciences ,Nuclear and plasma physics - Abstract
We measure triangular flow relative to the reaction plane at 3 GeV center-of-mass energy in Au+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. A significant v3 signal for protons is observed, which increases for higher rapidity, higher transverse momentum, and more peripheral collisions. The triangular flow is essentially rapidity-odd with a slope at midrapidity, dv3/dy|(y=0), opposite in sign compared to the slope for directed flow. No significant v3 signal is observed for charged pions and kaons. Comparisons with models suggest that a mean field potential is required to describe these results, and that the triangular shape of the participant nucleons is the result of stopping and nuclear geometry.
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- 2024