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标题：Latest flow results from PHENIX at RHIC
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作者：E. Richardson
期刊名称：PoS - Proceedings of Science
印刷版ISSN：1824-8039
出版年度：2012
卷号：2012
出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), key insights into the bulk properties of the hot and dense partonic matter arise from the study of azimuthal anisotropy (v2) of the produced particles. The v2 values indicate that the matter undergoes rapid thermalization and behaves hydrodynamically at low pT . Furthermore, the quark scaling of v2 for different particle species suggests that thermalization occurs at the quark level and that v2 is the same for all quark flavors. Recently, higher order harmonic measurements (v3, v4) have shown the potential for insights into the medium’s initial geometry and fluctuations. This proceeding discusses some of the PHENIX Collaboration’s latest flow results and their implications.