Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 122301 (2005) [6 pages]

Multistrange Baryon Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200  GeV

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J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration
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Received 22 April 2005; published 13 September 2005

We report on the first measurement of elliptic flow ν2(pT) of multistrange baryons Ξ-+Ξ̅ + and Ω-+Ω̅ + in heavy-ion collisions. In minimum-bias Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200  GeV, a significant amount of elliptic flow, comparable to other nonstrange baryons, is observed for multistrange baryons which are expected to be particularly sensitive to the dynamics of the partonic stage of heavy-ion collisions. The pT dependence of ν2 of the multistrange baryons confirms the number of constituent quark scaling previously observed for lighter hadrons. These results support the idea that a substantial fraction of the observed collective motion is developed at the early partonic stage in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.122301
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.122301
PACS: 25.75.Ld

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