The number-of-constituent-quark(NCQ)scaling behavior of the elliptic flow of identified particles produced in A+A collisions is studied quantitatively using an empirical function that fits the experimental v_(2) data ...The number-of-constituent-quark(NCQ)scaling behavior of the elliptic flow of identified particles produced in A+A collisions is studied quantitatively using an empirical function that fits the experimental v_(2) data available from the RHIC and LHC.The most common approach for NCQ scaling involves(1)doing a scaling of the experimental v_(2) data of an identified particle with its NCQ,(2)doing the same to its transverse momentum or energy,then(3)combining all the scaled data and identifying the NCQ behavior by intuitively looking(since the measured experimental data are discrete).We define two variables(d_(1),d_(2))to describe NCQ scaling quantitatively and simultaneously,and identify the approximate region where the NCQ scaling holds.This approach could be applied to study NCQ or other scaling phenomena in future experiments.展开更多
基金supported partly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11905120 and 11947416)the U.S.Department of Energy (No. DE-FG03-93ER40773)NNSA Grant No. DENA0003841 (CENTAUR)
文摘The number-of-constituent-quark(NCQ)scaling behavior of the elliptic flow of identified particles produced in A+A collisions is studied quantitatively using an empirical function that fits the experimental v_(2) data available from the RHIC and LHC.The most common approach for NCQ scaling involves(1)doing a scaling of the experimental v_(2) data of an identified particle with its NCQ,(2)doing the same to its transverse momentum or energy,then(3)combining all the scaled data and identifying the NCQ behavior by intuitively looking(since the measured experimental data are discrete).We define two variables(d_(1),d_(2))to describe NCQ scaling quantitatively and simultaneously,and identify the approximate region where the NCQ scaling holds.This approach could be applied to study NCQ or other scaling phenomena in future experiments.
