Onset of constituent quark number scaling in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC

Partonic collectivity is one of the necessary signatures for the formation of quark-gluon plasma in high-energy nuclear collisions. Number of constituent quarks (NCQ) scaling has been observed for hadron elliptic flow 𝑣2 in top energy nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the...

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Main Authors: Aboona, Bassam (Author) , Deppner, Ingo Martin (Author) , Herrmann, Norbert (Author) , Leung, Yue (Author) , Söhngen, Yannick (Author)
Corporate Author: STAR Collaboration (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 11 August, 2025
In: Physical review letters
Year: 2025, Volume: 135, Issue: 7, Pages: 1-8
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/2qhx-cp79
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