PHENIX Studies of the Scaling Properties of Elliptic Flow at RHIC

Abstract

Recent PHENIX elliptic flow ($v_2$) measurements for identified particles produced in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV are presented and compared to other RHIC measurements. They indicate universal scaling of $v_2$ compatible with partonic collectivity leading to the flow of light, strange and heavy quarks with a common expansion velocity field.

Proceedings, Quark Matter 2006, Shanghai, China

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