Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Lacey, Roy | Sears, Trevor | Jia, Jiangyong | Kiryluk, Joanna.
Date
2015-12-01
Keywords
200 GeV, Cu+Cu, elliptic, Flow, heavy-ion, triangular | Nuclear physics and radiation
Department
Department of Chemistry.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77148
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Differential measurements of the elliptic and triangular flow Fourier coefficients are reported for charged hadrons as a function of transverse momentum and collision centrality for Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_NN}$ = 200 GeV measured with the PHENIX detector located at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The flow coefficients, an important probe in the investigation of the quark-gluon plasma, are measured using a long-ranged two-particle correlation method where the azimuthal angles of particles about midrapidity in the central arm detectors are correlated with hits in detectors located at forward rapidity, ensuring a large pseudorapidity gap to prevent biasing due to non-flow effects. Results are also investigated in terms of the number of participants, and the geometry of the initial state nucleon configuration of the collision system such as eccentricty and transverse system size estimated using the Glauber model. Removing some of the geometric effects between the two collision systems, these results provide additional constraints for theoretical models. | 118 pages
Recommended Citation
Reynolds, Damian Lee, "Measurement of the Elliptic and Triangular Flow in Ultra-Relativistic Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2984.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2984