Azimuthal harmonics in small and large collision systems at RHIC top energies
STAR Collaboration: J. Adam🇺🇸 · L. Adamczyk🇵🇱 · J. R. Adams🇺🇸 · J. K. Adkins🇺🇸 · G. Agakishiev🇷🇺 · M. M. Aggarwal🇮🇳 · Z. Ahammed🇮🇳 · I. Alekseev🇷🇺 · D. M. Anderson🇺🇸 · R. Aoyama🇯🇵 · A. Aparin🇷🇺 · D. Arkhipkin🇺🇸 and 331 other authors
The first (), second () and third () harmonic coefficients of the azimuthal particle distribution at mid-rapidity, are extracted for charged hadrons and studied as a function of transverse momentum () and mean charged particle multiplicity density in U+U (~GeV), Au+Au, Cu+Au, Cu+Cu, +Au and +Au collisions at ~GeV with the STAR Detector. For the same , the and coefficients are observed to be independent of collision system, while exhibits such a scaling only when normalized by the initial-state eccentricity (). The data also show that scales linearly with . These measurements provide insight into initial-geometry fluctuations and the role of viscous hydrodynamic attenuation on from small to large collision systems.