PHENIX Studies of the Scaling Properties of Elliptic Flow at RHIC
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Recent PHENIX elliptic flow (v2) measurements for identified particles produced in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at √ sNN = 200 GeV are presented and compared to other RHIC measurements. They indicate universal scaling of v2 compatible with partonic collectivity leading to the flow of light, strange and heavy quarks with a common expansion velocity field.
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