Kinematic dependence of azimuthal anisotropies in $p$$+$Au, $d$$+$Au, ${}^3$He+Au at $\sqrt{s_{{}_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV

Abstract

There is strong evidence for the formation of small droplets of quark-gluon plasma in $p/d{/}^3$He+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and in $p$+$p$/Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. In particular, the analysis of data at RHIC for different geometries obtained by varying the projectile size and shape has proven insightful. In the present analysis, we find excellent agreement with the previously published PHENIX at RHIC results on elliptical and triangular flow with an independent analysis via the two-particle correlation method, which has quite different systematic uncertainties and an independent code base. In addition, the results are extended to other detector combinations with different kinematic (pseudorapidity) coverage. These results provide additional constraints on contributions from nonflow and longitudinal decorrelations.

383 authors from 70 institutions, 13 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables, 2014,15,16 data (and supplemental material of 9 pages with 6 figures and 16 tables). v2 is version accepted for publication in Physical Review 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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• Results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
• Effect of flow fluctuations and nonflow on elliptic flow methods
• Collectivity and electromagnetic radiation in small systems
• Measurements of azimuthal anisotropy and charged-particle multiplicity in $d$$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{{}_{NN}}}=$200, 62.4, 39, and 19.6 GeV

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