Speaker
Julia Velkovska
(Vanderbilt University (US))
Description
Results on elliptic flow in p+p and p/d/$^3$He+A have raised the question of how small a system can be while still exhibiting collective behavior. In 2016, RHIC operations included $d$+Au collisions at 200, 62.4, 39, and 19.6 GeV. In this talk we present results on elliptic and triangular flow at midrapidity as a function of transverse momentum and event multiplicity in $d$+Au collisions at various energies. We compare these results with several theoretical predictions in scenarios including pre-equilibrium flow, hydrodynamic flow, partonic scattering, and purely hadronic scattering in order to assess the role of each stage in the system evolution for producing collective effects in small systems.
| Preferred Track | Collective Dynamics |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | PHENIX |
Primary author
Julia Velkovska
(Vanderbilt University (US))
