Breaking of the number-of-constituent-quark scaling for identified-particle elliptic flow as a signal of phase change in low-energy data taken at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Tian, J ^a,b   Chen, J H ^a   Ma, Y G ^a   Cai, X Z ^a   Jin, F ^a,b   Ma, G L ^a   Zhang, S ^a,b   Zhong, C ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 67249146358     PISSN: 05562813     EISSN: 1089490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.79.067901     Document Type: Article

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