Elliptic flow measurement of J/ψ in PHENIX Run14 Au+Au at √s_NN = 200 GeV

The Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions exhibits a nearly perfect fluid behavior. This behavior is observed as strong azimuthal correlations between the produced particles, but presently, the detailed interactions of the heavy quarks in the QGP medium are under investigation. One such quantity of interest is flow, a measure of how energy, momentum, and number of particles may correlate with direction. The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has a unique coverage at forward rapidity (1.2 ≤ |η| ≤ 2.2) and a large sample of J/ψ → µ⁺ + µ⁻ decays collected in 2014 in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV. At such energies, in central collisions, this area of phase space yields the smallest fraction of charm anti-charm quark pairs when compared to midrapidity, where most pairs are produced. With such yields, charmonium coalescence a dominating source of J/ψ elliptic flow (v₂) may not be present. We will present the first statistically improved measurement of p_T-dependent J/ψ elliptic flow at RHIC energies at forward rapidity.