Saturation of azimuthal anisotropy in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 62 - 200 GeV
Abstract
New measurements are presented for charged hadron azimuthal correlations at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV. They are compared to earlier measurements obtained at sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV and in Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 17.2 GeV. Sizeable anisotropies are observed with centrality and transverse momentum (pT) dependence characteristic of elliptic flow (v2). For a broad range of centralities, the observed magnitudes and trends of the differential anisotropy, v2(pT), change very little over the collision energy range sqrt(sNN) = 62-200 GeV, indicating saturation of the excitation function for v2 at these energies. Such a saturation may be indicative of the dominance of a very soft equation of state for sqrt(sNN) = 62-200 GeV.
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