We present azimuthal angular correlations between charged hadrons and energy deposited in calorimeter towers in central d+Au and minimum bias p+p collisions at sNN=200 GeV. The charged hadron is ...measured at midrapidity |eta|<0.35, and the energy is measured at large rapidity (-3.7<eta< -3.1, Au-going direction). An enhanced near-side angular correlation across | Delta eta|>2.75 is observed in d+Au collisions. Using the event plane method applied to the Au-going energy distribution, we extract the anisotropy strength v2 for inclusive charged hadrons at midrapidity up to pT=4.5 GeV/c. We also present the measurement of v2 for identified pi+ or - and (anti)protons in central d+Au collisions, and observe a mass-ordering pattern similar to that seen in heavy-ion collisions. These results are compared with viscous hydrodynamic calculations and measurements from p+Pb at sNN=5.02 TeV. The magnitude of the mass ordering in d+Au is found to be smaller than that in p+Pb collisions, which may indicate smaller radial flow in lower energy d+Au collisions.
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Here, we present a detailed measurement of charged two-pion correlation functions in 0–30% centrality √sNN = 200 GeV Au + Au collisions by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion ...Collider. The data are well described by Bose-Einstein correlation functions stemming from Lévy-stable source distributions. Using a fine transverse momentum binning, we extract the correlation strength parameter λ, the Lévy index of stability α, and the Lévy length scale parameter R as a function of average transverse mass of the pair mT. We find that the positively and the negatively charged pion pairs yield consistent results, and their correlation functions are represented, within uncertainties, by the same Lévy-stable source functions. The λ(mT) measurements indicate a decrease of the strength of the correlations at low mT. The Lévy length scale parameter R(mT) decreases with increasing mT, following a hydrodynamically predicted type of scaling behavior. The values of the Lévy index of stability α are found to be significantly lower than the Gaussian case of α = 2, but also significantly larger than the conjectured value that may characterize the critical point of a second-order quark-hadron phase transition.
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The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has measured the centrality dependence of the direct photon yield from Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV down to pT = 0.4 GeV/c. Photons are detected via photon ...conversions to e(+)e(-) pairs and an improved technique is applied that minimizes the systematic uncertainties that usually limit direct photon measurements, in particular at low pT. We find an excess of direct photons above the N-coll-scaled yield measured in p + p collisions. This excess yield is well described by an exponential distribution with an inverse slope of about 240 MeV/c in the pT range 0.6-2.0 GeV/c. While the shape of the pT distribution is independent of centrality within the experimental uncertainties, the yield increases rapidly with increasing centrality, scaling approximately with N-part(alpha), where alpha = 1.38 +/- 0.03(stat) +/- 0.07(syst).
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In this paper, measurements of the anisotropic flow coefficients v2{Ψ2}, v3{Ψ3}, v4{Ψ4}, and v4{Ψ2} for identified particles (π±, K±, and p + ¯p) at midrapidity, obtained relative to the event planes ...Ψm at forward rapidities in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV , are presented as a function of collision centrality and particle transverse momenta pT. The vn coefficients show characteristic patterns consistent with hydrodynamical expansion of the matter produced in the collisions. For each harmonic n, a modified valence quark-number Nq scaling plotting vn{Ψm}/(Nq)n/2 versus transverse kinetic energies (KET)/Nq is observed to yield a single curve for all the measured particle species for a broad range of KET . A simultaneous blast-wave model fit to the observed vn{Ψm}(pT) coefficients and published particle spectra identifies radial flow anisotropies ρn{Ψm} and spatial eccentricities sn{Ψm} at freeze-out. Finally, these are generally smaller than the initial-state participant-plane geometric eccentricities εn {ΨPPm} as also observed in the final eccentricity from quantum interferometry measurements with respect to the event plane.
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We previously published in 2018 a detailed measurement recorded in 2010 for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{^SNN}$ = 200 GeV of charged two-pion correlation functions in 0%-30% centrality. We found the ...data to be well described by Bose-Einstein correlation functions stemming from L$\acute{e}$vy-stable source distributions. Using a fine transverse momentum binning, we extracted the correlation strength parameter λ, the L$\acute{e}$vy index of stability α and the L$\acute{e}$vy length scale parameter R as a function of average transverse mass of the pair mT.
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The PHENIX experiment has measured electrons and positrons at midrapidity from the decays of hadrons containing charm and bottom quarks produced in d+Au and p+p collisions at sNN=200 GeV in the ...transverse-momentum range 0.85≤peT≤8.5 GeV/c. In central d+Au collisions, the nuclear modification factor RdA at 1.5<pT<5 GeV/c displays evidence of enhancement of these electrons, relative to those produced in p+p collisions, and shows that the mass-dependent Cronin enhancement observed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider extends to the heavy D meson family. A comparison with the neutral-pion data suggests that the difference in cold-nuclear-matter effects on light- and heavy-flavor mesons could contribute to the observed differences between the π0 and heavy-flavor-electron nuclear modification factors RAA.
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We present measurements of azimuthal correlations of charged hadron pairs in√(sNN) = 200 GeV Au + Aucollisions for the trigger and associated particle transverse-momentum ranges of 1 < p^t_T < 10 ...GeV/c and 0.5 < p^a_T < 10 GeV/c.
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