| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 259, 2022
The 19th International Conference of Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2021)
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| Article Number | 10013 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Bulk Properties (Parallel) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225910013 | |
| Published online | 01 February 2022 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202225910013
NCQ scaling of f0(980) elliptic flow in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions by STAR and its constituent quark content
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
* e-mail: zhao656@purdue.edu
Published online: 1 February 2022
Searching for exotic state particles and studying their properties have furthered our understanding of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The f0(980) resonance is an exotic state with relatively high production rate in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, decaying primarily into ππ. Currently the structure and quark content of the f0(980) are unknown with several predictions from theory being a qq¯ state, a qqq¯q¯ state, a KK¯ molecule state, or a gluonium state. We report the first f0(980) elliptic flow (v2) measurement from 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at STAR. The transverse momentum dependence of v2 is examined and compared to those of other hadrons (baryons and mesons). The empirical number of constituent quark (NCQ) scaling is used to investigate the constituent quark content of f0(980), which may potentially address an important question in QCD.
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