Systematic investigation of partonic collectivity through centrality dependence of elliptic flow of multi-strange hadrons in Au+Au collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV in STAR

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Abstract

We present the measurement of centrality dependence of multi-strange hadron (ΩΩ, ΞΞ and ϕϕ) elliptic flow (v2v_{2}) at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collision at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV. We investigate number-of-constituents quark (NCQ) scaling of identified hadrons v2v_{2} for different collision centralities. Maximum deviation from ideal NCQ scaling observed at the level of 10% for centrality 30-80% at (mT−m0)/nq(m_{T} - m_{0})/n_{q} >> 0.6 GeV/c2c^{2}. This may indicate smaller contribution to the collectivity from the partonic phase in the peripheral collisions. We also observe the mass ordering of v2v_{2} break down between proton and ϕϕ-meson for pTp_{T} << 1 GeV/cc. This could be due to the effect of later stage hadronic interactions on v2v_{2}.

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