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        <journal-title>St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Journal: Physics and Mathematics</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Научно-технические ведомости СПбГПУ. Физико-математические науки</trans-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2304-9782, 2618-8686, 2405-7223</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">12</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18721/JPM.19112</article-id>
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        <article-title>Comparison of elliptic flows of π0 mesons in Cu + Au collisions at 200 GeV and U + U collisions at 193 GeV</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Сравнение эллиптических потоков π0-мезонов в столкновениях релятивистских ядер меди и золота при энергии 200 ГэВ и ядер урана при 193 ГэВ</trans-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bannikov</surname>
            <given-names>Egor</given-names>
          </name>
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          <email>bannikov.ev.21@gmail.com</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-0309-5917</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Berdnikov</surname>
            <given-names>Yaroslav</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>berdnikov@spbstu.ru</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-3395-0454</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Kotov</surname>
            <given-names>Dmitry</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>dmitriy.kotov@gmail.com</email>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Larionova</surname>
            <given-names>Dariya</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
          <email>dlar@bk.ru</email>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-03-31">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>144</fpage>
      <lpage>157</lpage>
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      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>This paper presents the findings of investigation of the elliptic flows of π0 mesons as functions of transverse momentum for different centrality classes of relativistic nuclei Cu + Au collisions at an energy of 200 GeV and U + U collisions at 193 GeV. A comparison of the obtained values is also presented. The results of the comparison have been indicated that a larger volume of quark-gluon plasma formed in the U + U collisions. Moreover, the elliptic flows of π0 mesons were established to have positive values at transverse momenta up to 10 GeV/c in the collision systems under study. Thus, the results obtained on elliptic flows allow us to further study the dependences of parton energy losses on their path lengths in the quark-gluon plasma forming in the Cu + Au and U + U collisions.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>quark-gluon plasma</kwd>
        <kwd>azimuthal anisotropy</kwd>
        <kwd>elliptic flow</kwd>
        <kwd>π0 mesons</kwd>
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