Abstract
The results from the STAR Collaboration on directed flow (), elliptic flow (), and the fourth harmonic () in the anisotropic azimuthal distribution of particles from Au+Au collisions at are summarized and compared with results from other experiments and theoretical models. Results for identified particles are presented and fit with a blast-wave model. Different anisotropic flow analysis methods are compared and nonflow effects are extracted from the data. For , scaling with the number of constituent quarks and parton coalescence are discussed. For , scaling with and quark coalescence are discussed.
32 More- Received 29 September 2004
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.72.014904
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