Abstract
New measurements are presented for charged hadron azimuthal correlations at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at sNN=62.4 and 200 GeV. They are compared to earlier measurements obtained at sNN=130GeV and in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=17.2GeV. 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 sNN=62-200GeV, 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 sNN∼60-200GeV.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 232302 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 23 |
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| State | Published - Jun 17 2005 |