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Elliptic Flow in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

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The basic aim of the heavy-ion physics is to investigate matter at extreme densities and temperatures where quarks and gluons are no longer confined inside hadrons. Such a state of matter, that may have existed a few microseconds after the Big Bang, is created in the laboratory by colliding nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC), Brookhaven, and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN at top center of mass energies \(\sqrt{{ {s}}_\mathrm{NN}} = 200\) GeV and 5.02 TeV, respectively. The large elliptic flow and number of constituent quark (NCQ) scaling observed at the RHIC and similar observations at the LHC with some deviation indicate the formation of de-confined state in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The elliptic flow measurement and its dependence on collision centrality, transverse momentum, particle species, etc., will be presented.

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Aggarwal, M.M. (2021). Elliptic Flow in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions. In: Puri, R.K., Aichelin, J., Gautam, S., Kumar, R. (eds) Advances in Nuclear Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 257. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9062-7_13

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