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Nuclear Physics Seminar - Alex Schmah (LBL) "Flow in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan"

July 25, 2013
10:00AM - 11:00AM
4138 Physics Research Building

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Add to Calendar 2013-07-25 10:00:00 2013-07-25 11:00:00 Nuclear Physics Seminar - Alex Schmah (LBL) "Flow in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan" Elliptic and direct flow are important observables to study the early evolution of the created matter in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. It is expected that flow is sensitive to a phase transition from a quark gluon plasma to a hadron gas phase. A beam energy scan program was carried out at RHIC to find signatures for this phase transition. I will present the latest flow results from STAR from the beam energy scan and discuss the number-of-constituent quark scaling of v_2 and blast wave fits. 4138 Physics Research Building Department of Physics physics@osu.edu America/New_York public

Elliptic and direct flow are important observables to study the early evolution of the created matter in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. It is expected that flow is sensitive to a phase transition from a quark gluon plasma to a hadron gas phase. A beam energy scan program was carried out at RHIC to find signatures for this phase transition. I will present the latest flow results from STAR from the beam energy scan and discuss the number-of-constituent quark scaling of v_2 and blast wave fits.