Inclusive charged hadron elliptic flow in Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=7.7-39 GeV

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doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.86.054908

A systematic study is presented for centrality, transverse momentum (pTp_TpT) and pseudorapidity (ηetaη) dependence of the inclusive charged hadron elliptic flow (v2v_2v2) at midrapidity(∣η∣<1.0|eta| < 1.0∣η∣<1.0) in Au+Au collisions at sNNsqrt{s_{NN}}sNN = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV. The results obtained with different methods, including correlations with the event plane reconstructed in a region separated by a large pseudorapidity gap and 4-particle cumulants (v24v_2{4}v24), are presented in order to investigate non-flow correlations and v2v_2v2 fluctuations. We observe that the difference between v22v_2{2}v22 and v24v_2{4}v24 is smaller at the lower collision energies. Values of v2v_2v2, scaled by the initial coordinate space eccentricity, v2/εv_{2}/arepsilonv2/ε, as a function of pTp_TpT are larger in more central collisions, suggesting stronger collective flow develops in more central collisions, similar to the results at higher collision energies. These results are compared to measurements at higher energies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (sNNsqrt{s_{NN}}sNN = 62.4 and 200 GeV) and at the Large Hadron Collider (Pb + Pb collisions at sNNsqrt{s_{NN}}sNN = 2.76 TeV). The v2(pT)v_2(p_T)v2(pT) values for fixed pTp_TpT rise with increasing collision energy within the pTp_TpT range studied (<2GeV/c< 2 { m GeV}/c<2GeV/c). A comparison to viscous hydrodynamic simulations is made to potentially help understand the energy dependence of v2(pT)v_{2}(p_{T})v2(pT). We also compare the v2v_2v2 results to UrQMD and AMPT transport model calculations, and physics implications on the dominance of partonic versus hadronic phases in the system created at Beam Energy Scan (BES) energies are discussed.