language: en

[Confidential: not for distribution. Submitted to IOP Publishing for peer review]

5 April 2010

Systematic study of QCD matter with flow of identified particles at RHIC

S. Huang
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Station B 1807,
Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN 37235, USA
E-mail: shengli.huang@vanderbilt.edu

Abstract. The anisotropic flow of identified particles provides a powerful tool to study the properties of the hot and dense matter which is believed to be created at RHIC. It can be used to study different particle production mechanisms in heavy ion collisions. The recent measurements of anisotropic flow of identified particles at RHIC will be reviewed in this paper, including light flavors (i.e. strange hadrons) and heavy flavors. Topics such as number of constituent quark scaling, parton energy loss, and jet conversions will be discussed in this paper.