Scaling Characteristics of Azimuthal Anisotropy at RHIC标度特性的各向异性在RHIC.pptVIP

WWND, San Diego Scaling Characteristics ofAzimuthal Anisotropy at RHIC Michael Issah SUNY Stony Brook for the PHENIX Collaboration Outline Introduction What can we learn from scaling characteristics of azimuthal anisotropy Eccentricity scaling and thermalization Speed of sound estimation Scaling with transverse kinetic energy and implications Summary Elliptic Flow Energy density Hydrodynamic description of v2 Important issues Exploring scaling properties Scaling properties in science relate macroscopic observables to underlying system properties In heavy-ion collisions, they can serve to find simple laws relating measured anisotropy to system properties and/or degrees of freedom Eccentricity scaling System size scaling Mass scaling and constituent quark scaling What can be learnt from these scaling properties ? Is thermalization achieved ? Large v2 indicative of high degree of thermalization of produced matter Are there other observables showing that the matter is thermalized ? Eccentricity scaled v2 Ideal hydrodynamics is scale invariant. If the matter behaves hydrodynamically and is thermalized, v2 should be independent of system size Do we observe such independence in the data? Data for different colliding systems (Au+Au, Cu+Cu) available to test this Determination of eccentricity Eccentricity usually obtained from a Glauber Model One can also use experimental quantity sensitive to initial eccentricity, like the integrated v2 “Integrated v2 reflects momentum anisotropy of bulk matter and saturates within the first 3-4 fm/c just after collision” (Gyulassy,Hirano nucl-th/050604) Integrated v2 is proportional to the eccentricity Eccentricity scaling Eccentricity scaling and system size Can we make an estimate of cs ? Energy dependence at RHIC energies seem to indicate a soft equation of state. How soft ? We can make an estimate of cs from elliptic flow measurements Estimation of cs Energy dependence of elliptic