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Phys. Rev. C 73, 014906 (2006) [7 pages]

Anisotropic flow in Cu+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV

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Lie-Wen Chen1,2 and Che Ming Ko3
1Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
2Center of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator, Lanzhou 730000, China
3Cyclotron Institute and Physics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3366, USA

Received 27 July 2005; published 27 January 2006

The anisotropic flow of charged hadrons in asymmetric Cu+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is studied in a multiphase transport model. Compared with previous results for symmetric Au+Au collisions, charged hadrons produced around midrapidity in asymmetric collisions are found to have a stronger directed flow v1 and their elliptic flow v2 is also more sensitive to the parton scattering cross section. Although higher order flows v3 and v4 are small at all rapidities, both v1 and v2 in these collisions are appreciable and show an asymmetry in forward and backward rapidities.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.73.014906
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.73.014906
PACS:
25.75.Ld, 24.10.Lx
 
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