Elliptic flow of multi-strange particles: fragmentation, recombination and hydrodynamics

Chiho Nonaka, Rainer J. Fries, Steffen A. Bass
2004 Physics Letters B  
We study the elliptic flow v_2 of multi-strange hadrons such as the ϕ, Ξ and Ω as a function of transverse momentum in the recombination and fragmentation model and compare to a standard hydrodynamic calculation. We find that the measurement of v_2 for the ϕ and Ω will allow for the unambiguous distinction between parton recombination and statistical hadro-chemistry to be the dominant process in hadronization at intermediate transverse momenta.
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.12.034 fatcat:zt2zcthxgngdlh7thiuii5fd2m