Published in:
Physical Review Letters 92,5 (2004) 052302;
Link to original published article:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.052302
Abstract
We present STAR measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy parameter v(2) and the binary-collision scaled centrality ratio R-CP for kaons and lambdas (Lambda+(&ULambda;) over bar) at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at roots(NN)=200 GeV. In combination, the v(2) and R-CP particle-type dependencies contradict expectations from partonic energy loss followed by standard fragmentation in vacuum. We establish p(T)approximate to5 GeV/c as the value where the centrality dependent baryon enhancement ends. The K-S(0) and Lambda+(&ULambda;) over bar v(2) values are consistent with expectations of constituent-quark-number scaling from models of hadron formation by parton coalescence or recombination.
Keywords
large transverse-momentum;; elliptic flow;; qcd;; signature;; hadrons
Date of this Version
January 2004