Speaker
Hiroshi Nakagomi
(Tsukuba University)
Description
Anisotropic flow is one of the important probes to investigate the characteristics of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP).
Flow has as its origin, the initial collision geometry, and hence is sensitive to the transport properties of QGP.
So far, flow has been studied in symmetric collisions systems such as Au+Au, Cu+Cu.
In 2012 the first asymmetric collisions of heavy nuclei at collider energies, Cu+Au, were made available at RHIC.
Measurement of anisotropic flow in asymmetric collisions is a subject of special interest because asymmetric collisions provide different density profiles, pressure gradients and initial geometry comparing to symmetric collisions in mid-central collisions.
In this poster, we present current status of flow observables in Cu+Au collisions with center of mass energy, 200 GeV, as a function of transverse momentum, as measured by the PHENIX detector at RHIC.
| On behalf of collaboration: | PHENIX |
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Primary author
Hiroshi Nakagomi
(Tsukuba University)
