[Brahms-l] Abstract for the APS Tampa Meeting

Dear Brahms,
   I am planning on talking about flow at the Tampa APS meeting.  The abstracts are due this Friday.  Here is my abstract for review. 


Elliptic Flow in BRAHMS

Elliptic flow is sensitive to the initial partonic dynamics of heavy-ion collisions and can be deduced from the observation of an anisotropic particle density with respect to an event plane defined by the collision geometry.   Before the RHIC run in 2004 of Au-Au at #sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV, the BRAHMS multiplicity array was reconfigured to allow for a more robust measure of the collision event plane.  The centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the elliptic flow signature (v_{2}) will be presented as a proof of principle that the event plane can be accurately determined by the BRAHMS experiment.  A comparison will be made with the event plane resolutions reported from the other RHIC experiments.  With the event plane determined from the multiplicity array, correlations between the event plane and the identified particles detected in the BRAHMS spectrometers will also be discussed.


Erik


_______________________________________________
Brahms-l mailing list
Brahms-l@lists.bnl.gov
http://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo/brahms-l