Azimuthal Anisotropy of Unidentified Hadrons at Forward Rapidity in PHENIX at RHIC

At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), where Au nuclei are collided at 200 GeV per nucleon pair, key insights into the bulk properties of the newly formed matter have been made by studying the azimuthal anisotropy ($v_{2}$) of the produced particles. Studies of $v_{2}$ have shown that the hot dense matter undergoes rapid thermalization and behaves hydrodynamicaly at low $p_{T}$. Furthermore, the quark scaling of the $v_{2}$ signal for different particle species suggests that thermalization occurs at the quark level and that $v_{2}$ is the same for all quark flavors. This analysis will attempt to expand upon these principles by examining the $v_{2}$ of unidentified hadrons in the less studied pseudorapidity region of $|1.2|<\eta<|2.0|$ using PHENIX's forward arm detectors. The analysis procedure and results will be explored.