Yields and elliptic flow of d(anti-d) and He-3(anti-He-3) in Au + Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200- GeV

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Sep, 2009
16 pages
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present the pTp_{T} spectra, elliptic flow (v2v_2) and coalescence parameters B2B_{2} for dd, dˉ\bar{d} (1<p_{T}<4 GeV/c) and B3B_{3} for 3He^{3}He, 3Heˉ\bar{^{3}He} (2<p_{T}<6 GeV/c) produced at mid-rapidity in Au+Au col lisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 200 GeV. The results are measured in the STAR experiment at RHIC. The spectra of the light nuclei show softer pTp_T distributions than calculations from a blast-wave model in which the parameters were fixed from pion, kaon and proton v2v_2(pTp_T) and pTp_T distributions. The coalescence volume is found to track with pion HBT re sults for different collision geometries. The v2v_2 measurement for d(d)d(\overline{d}) as a function of transverse momentum pTp_T is found to follow an approximate atomic mass number (AA) scaling while that of 3He(3Heˉ)^{3}He(\bar{^{3}He}) deviates slightly from the scaling. A negative v2v_{2} has been observed for dˉ\bar{d} at low pTp_{T}, consiste nt with large radial flow in Au+Au collisions.
  • OSG : STAR
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • gold
  • light nucleus: yield
  • deuteron
  • helium: nuclide
  • antinucleus: yield
  • transverse momentum: spectrum
  • elliptic flow
  • coalescence