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Physical Review C · 2005 · Vol. 72(1)

J. R. Adams✉(University of Birmingham)M. M. Aggarwal(Panjab University)Z. Ahammed(Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)J. Amonett(Kent State University)B. D. Anderson(Kent State University)D. ArkhipkinG. S. AverichevS.K. Badyal(University of Jammu)Y. Bai(National Institute for Subatomic Physics)J. Balewski(Indiana University Bloomington)O. Barannikova(Purdue University West Lafayette)L. S. Barnby(University of Birmingham)J. BaudotS. Bekele(The Ohio State University)V. V. BelagaR. Bellwied(Wayne State University)J. Berger(Goethe University Frankfurt)B. I. Bezverkhny(Yale University)S. Bharadwaj(University of Rajasthan)A. Bhasin(University of Jammu)A. K. Bhati(Panjab University)V.S. Bhatia(Panjab University)H. Bichsel(University of Washington)J. Bielčík(Yale University)J. Bielčíková(Yale University)A. Billmeier(Wayne State University)L. C. Bland(Brookhaven National Laboratory)C. O. Blyth(University of Birmingham)B. E. Bonner(Rice University)M. 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The results from the STAR Collaboration on directed flow (${v}_{1}$), elliptic flow (${v}_{2}$), and the fourth harmonic (${v}_{4}$) in the anisotropic azimuthal distribution of particles from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{{s}_{\mathit{NN}}}=200\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{GeV}$ are summarized and compared with results from other experiments and theoretical models. Results for identified particles are presented and fit with a blast-wave model. Different anisotropic flow analysis methods are compared and nonflow effects are extracted from the data. For ${v}_{2}$, scaling with the number of constituent quarks and parton coalescence are discussed. For ${v}_{4}$, scaling with ${v}_{2}^{2}$ and quark coalescence are discussed.

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsCoalescence (physics)PhysicsScalingAnisotropyQuarkAzimuthParticle physicsGeometryMathematicsOptics