STAR results on strangeness and electric charge-dependent splitting of rapidity-odd directed flow
Abstract
Rapidity-odd directed flow (v1) of multi-strange baryons (Ξ and Ω) at mid-rapidity is reported for Au+Au collisions as recorded by the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We focus on particle species where all constituent quarks are produced, such as K−(ūs), ˉp(ūūˉd), ˉΛ(ūˉdˉs), ϕ(sˉs), ˉΞ+(ˉdˉsˉs), Ω−(sss) and ˉΩ+(ˉsˉsˉs), and demonstrate using a novel analysis method that the coalescence sum rule holds in a common kinematic region for hadron combinations with identical quark content. We examine the coalescence sum rule as a function of rapidity for nonidentical quark content having the same quark-level mass but different strangeness (ΔS) and electric charge (Δq). The difference in the directed flow of different quark and anti-quark combinations, e.g., v1(Ω−(sss))−v1(ˉΩ+(ˉsˉsˉs)), is a measure of coalescence sum rule violation, and we call it directed flow splitting (Δv1). We measure ΔS and Δq dependence of the Δv1 slope (dΔv1∕dy) between produced quarks and anti-quarks in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=27GeV and 200GeV. Measurements have been compared with A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) and Parton-Hadron String Dynamics (PHSD) models with electromagnetic field calculations.
Based on a presentation at the 10th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2021).
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