Measurements of directed, elliptic, and triangular flow in Cu$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{{}_{NN}}}=200$ GeV

Abstract

Measurements of anisotropic flow Fourier coefficients ($v_n$) for inclusive charged particles and identified hadrons ${\pi }^{\pm }$, $K^{\pm }$, $p$, and $\bar{p}$ produced at midrapidity in Cu+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{{}_{NN}}}=200$ GeV are presented. The data were collected in 2012 by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The particle azimuthal distributions with respect to different order symmetry planes ${\Psi }_n$, for $n$~=~1, 2, and 3 are studied as a function of transverse momentum $p_T$ over a broad range of collisions centralities. Mass ordering, as expected from hydrodynamic flow, is observed for all three harmonics. The charged-particle results are compared to hydrodynamical and transport model calculations. We also compare these Cu$+$Au results with those in Cu$+$Cu and Au$+$Au collisions at the same $\sqrt{s_{{}_{NN}}}$, and find that the $v_2$ and $v_3$, as a function of transverse momentum, follow a common scaling with $1/({\epsilon }_n{N}_{\mathrm{part}}^{1/3})$.

arXiv comment404 authors, 21 pages, 20 figures, 3 tables, 2012 data. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html

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