A. Taranenko

Beam Energy Dependence of Azimuthal Anisotropy at RHIC-PHENIX

A. Taranenko

Recent PHENIX measurements of the elliptic (v2) and hexadecapole (v4) Fourier flow coefficients for charged hadrons as a function of transverse momentum (pT), collision centrality…

Nuclear dependence of the transverse single-spin asymmetry in the production of charged hadrons at forward rapidity in polarized $p + p$ , $p +$ Al, and $p +$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

C. Aidala, Y. Akiba, M. Alfred +300

We report on the nuclear dependence of transverse single-spin asymmetries (TSSAs) in the production of positively-charged hadrons in polarized $p^{↑} + p$ , $p^{↑} +$ Al a…

Azimuthal anisotropy in Cu+Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +345

The azimuthal anisotropic flow of identified and unidentified charged particles has been systematically studied in Cu+Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV for harmonics $n…

Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet and dijet production in polarized proton collisions at $s = 200$ GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, J. Adam +378

We report high-precision measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$ , for midrapidity inclusive jet and dijet production in polarized $pp$ collisions at a cent…

nucl-ex2014

Beam-energy and system-size dependence of the space-time extent of the pion emission source produced in heavy ion collisions

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +619

Two-pion interferometry measurements are used to extract the Gaussian radii $R_{out}$ , $R_{side}$ , and $R_{long}$ , of the pion emission sources produced in Cu $+$ Cu and…

Search for an exotic S=-2, Q=-2 baryon resonance in proton-proton interactions at $s_{N N}$ = 17.3 GeV

SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +133

Pentaquark states have been extensively investigated theoretically in the context of the constituent quark model. In this paper results of an experimental search for pentaquarks in…

hep-ex2023

Transverse single-spin asymmetry of midrapidity $I ¨ ^{0}$ and $I^\cdot$ mesons in $p$ +Au and $p$ +Al collisions at $s_{_{N N}} =$ 200 GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, C. Aidala +319

Presented are the first measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries ( $A_{N}$ ) for neutral pions and eta mesons in $p$ +Au and $p$ +Al collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ Ge…

Polarization and cross section of midrapidity J/ $I ¨ $ production in proton-proton collisions at $s = 510$ GeV

U. Acharya, A. Adare, C. Aidala +347

The PHENIX experiment has measured the spin alignment for inclusive $J / I ¨ \to e^{+} e^{-}$ decays in $p$ + $p$ collisions at $s = 510$ GeV at midrapidity. The angular dist…

Transverse spin transfer to $I^$ and $I^ˉ $ hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions at $s = 200 GeV$

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +345

The transverse spin transfer from polarized protons to $I^$ and $I^ˉ $ hyperons is expected to provide sensitivity to the transversity distribution of the nucleon and to the tran…

$J / I ¨ $ production cross section and its dependence on charged-particle multiplicity in $p + p$ collisions at $s$ = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +341

We present a measurement of inclusive $J / I ¨ $ production at mid-rapidity ( $∣ y ∣ < 1$ ) in $p + p$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $s$ = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment at…

hep-ex2017

Cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetry of muons from open heavy-flavor decays in polarized $p$ + $p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV

C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba +433

The cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetries of $I^¼^{-}$ and $I^¼^{+}$ from open heavy-flavor decays in polarized $p$ + $p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV were measured…

nucl-ex2012

J/psi suppression at forward rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=39 and 62.4 GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +361

We present measurements of the J/psi invariant yields in sqrt(s_NN)=39 and 62.4 GeV Au+Au collisions at forward rapidity (1.2<|y|<2.2). Invariant yields are presented as a function…

hep-ex2022

Transverse-single-spin asymmetries of charged pions at midrapidity in transversely polarized $p + p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV

U. A. Acharya, C. Aidala, Y. Akiba +307

In 2015, the PHENIX collaboration has measured single-spin asymmetries for charged pions in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at the center of mass energy of $\sqrt{s…

nucl-ex2016

Single electron yields from semileptonic charm and bottom hadron decays in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{N N} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +429

The PHENIX Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured open heavy-flavor production in minimum bias Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV via the y…

Strange hadron production in Au+Au collisions at $s_{_{NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +343

We present STAR measurements of strange hadron ( $K_{S}^{0}$ , $I^$ , $I^$ , $I^^{-}$ , $I^^{+}$ , $I^c ◯^{-}$ , $I^c ◯^{+}$ , and $I ¨ $ ) production at mid-rap…

Suppression of back-to-back hadron pairs at forward rapidity in d+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +377

Back-to-back hadron pair yields in d+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV were measured with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Rapidity separated h…

Charm- and Bottom-Quark Production in Au $+$ Au Collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +342

The invariant yield of electrons from open-heavy-flavor decays for $1 < p_{T} < 8$ GeV/ $c$ at midrapidity $∣ y ∣ < 0.35$ in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV has been measur…

Pion, kaon, and (anti-)proton production in U+U Collisions at $s_{N N}$ = 193 GeV measured with the STAR detector

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +339

We present the first measurements of transverse momentum spectra of $I ¨ ^{\pm}$ , $K^{\pm}$ , $p (p ˉ)$ at midrapidity ( $∣ y ∣ < 0.1$ ) in U+U collisions at $s_{N N}$ = 193 GeV…

Low- $p_{T}$ $e^{+} e^{-}$ pair production in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{N N}$ = 200 GeV and U $+$ U collisions at $s_{N N}$ = 193 GeV at STAR

J. Adam, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +341

We report first measurements of $e^{+} e^{-}$ pair production in the mass region 0.4 $< M_{ee} <$ 2.6 GeV/ $c^{2}$ at low transverse momentum ( $p_{T} <$ 0.15 GeV/ $c$ ) in non-central Au $+$ …

Measurement of the central exclusive production of charged particle pairs in proton-proton collisions at $s = 200$ GeV with the STAR detector at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +352

We report on the measurement of the Central Exclusive Production of charged particle pairs $h^{+} h^{-}$ ( $h = I ¨ , K, p$ ) with the STAR detector at RHIC in proton-proton collisions…

Observation of direct-photon collective flow in sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +380

The second Fourier component v_2 of the azimuthal anisotropy with respect to the reaction plane was measured for direct photons at midrapidity and transverse momentum (p_T) of 1--1…

hep-ex2017

Elliptic flow of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays in Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN} =$ 200, 62.4, and 39 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +342

We present measurements of elliptic flow ( $v_{2}$ ) of electrons from the decays of heavy-flavor hadrons ( $e_{H F}$ ) by the STAR experiment. For Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}…

nucl-ex2017

Beam Energy Dependence of Jet-Quenching Effects in Au+Au Collisions at $s_{_{NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +338

We report measurements of the nuclear modification factor, $R_{CP}$ , for charged hadrons as well as identified $I ¨ ^{+ (-)}$ , $K^{+ (-)}$ , and $p (p)$ for Au+Au co…

Measurement of inclusive J/ $I ¨ $ polarization in p+p collisions at $s$ = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +352

We report on new measurements of inclusive J/ $I ¨ $ polarization at mid-rapidity in p+p collisions at $s$ = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The polarization parameters…

Measurement of the production cross section of 31 GeV/ $c$ protons on carbon via beam attenuation in a 90-cm-long target

SHINE Collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +140

The production cross section of 30.92 GeV/ $c$ protons on carbon is measured by the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS by means of beam attenuation in a copy (replica) of the 9…

Measurements of hadron production in 90 GeV/c proton-carbon interactions

H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. K. Allison +136

This paper presents the multiplicity of neutral and charged hadrons produced in 90 GeV $/ c$ proton-carbon interactions from a dataset taken by the NA61/SHINE experiment in 2017. Par…

Centrality dependence of LÃ©vy-stable two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV Au $+$ Au collisions

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +394

The PHENIX experiment measured the centrality dependence of two-pion Bose-Einstein correlation functions in $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ ~GeV Au $+$ Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy…

Systematic Study of Azimuthal Anisotropy in Cu $+$ Cu and Au $+$ Au Collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 62.4$ and 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +421

We have studied the dependence of azimuthal anisotropy $v_{2}$ for inclusive and identified charged hadrons in Au $+$ Au and Cu $+$ Cu collisions on collision energy, species, and centra…

Trends in Yield and Azimuthal Shape Modification in Dihadron Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +424

Fast parton probes produced by hard scattering and embedded within collisions of large nuclei have shown that partons suffer large energy loss and that the produced medium may resp…

hep-ph2023

Pattern of Global Spin Alignment of $I ¨ $ and $K^{* 0}$ mesons in Heavy-Ion Collisions

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +379

Notwithstanding decades of progress since Yukawa first developed a description of the force between nucleons in terms of meson exchange, a full understanding of the strong interact…

Measurement of inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays in $p$ + $p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV with the STAR detector

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +383

We report a new measurement of the production cross section for inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays as a function of transverse momentum ( $p_{T}$ ) at mid-r…

hep-ex2026

Production of Î hyperons in 4.0A GeV and 4.5A GeV carbon-nucleus interactions at the Nuclotron

S. Afanasiev, G. Agakishiev, A. Aleksandrov +207

The BM@N experiment (Baryonic Matter at the Nuclotron) is the first fixed-target experiment at the JINR NICA accelerator complex. In this work, data on the interactions of a carbon…

Two-pion femtoscopic correlations in Be+Be collisions at $s_{NN} = 16.84$ GeV measured by the NA61/SHINE at CERN

SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich +154

This paper reports measurements of two-pion Bose-Einstein (HBT) correlations in Be+Be collisions at a beam momentum of 150$A\,\mbox{GeV}/\textit{c}$ by the $\mbox{NA61/SHINE}$ expe…

Event-by-event correlations between $I^$ ( $I^ˉ $ ) hyperon global polarization and handedness with charged hadron azimuthal separation in Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN} = 27 GeV$ from STAR

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +342

Global polarizations ( $P$ ) of $I^$ ( $I^ˉ $ ) hyperons have been observed in non-central heavy-ion collisions. The strong magnetic field primarily created by the spectator protons…

Measurements of higher-order cumulants of multiplicity and net-electric charge distributions in inelastic proton-proton interactions by NA61/SHINE

NA61/SHINE, :, H. Adhikary +148

This paper presents the energy dependence of multiplicity and net-electric charge fluctuations in p+p interactions at beam momenta 20, 31, 40, 80, and 158 GeV/c. Results are correc…

Measurement of jet-medium interactions via direct photon-hadron correlations in Au $+$ Au and $d$ $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

U. Acharya, A. Adare, S. Afanasiev +574

We present direct photon-hadron correlations in 200 GeV/A Au $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au and $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions, for direct photon $p_{T}$ from 5--12 GeV/ $c$ , collected by the PHENIX Collaborat…

Suppression of away-side jet fragments with respect to the reaction plane in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +424

Pair correlations between large transverse momentum neutral pion triggers (p_T=4--7 GeV/c) and charged hadron partners (p_T=3--7 GeV/c) in central (0--20%) and midcentral (20--60%)…

hep-ex2015

Inclusive cross section and double-helicity asymmetry for $I ¨ ^{0}$ production at midrapidity in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s = 510$ GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +410

PHENIX measurements are presented for the cross section and double-helicity asymmetry ( $A_{LL}$ ) in inclusive $I ¨ ^{0}$ production at midrapidity from $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s…

physics.ins-det2022

Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA

MPD Collaboration, V. Abgaryan, R. Acevedo Kado +470

The Nuclotron-base Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late 2022.…

Systematic study of charged-pion and kaon femtoscopy in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ =200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +496

We present a systematic study of charged pion and kaon interferometry in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ =200 GeV. The kaon mean source radii are found to be larger than pi…

hep-ex2023

Improving constraints on gluon spin-momentum correlations in transversely polarized protons via midrapidity open-heavy-flavor electrons in $p^{↑} + p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, C. Aidala +321

Polarized proton-proton collisions provide leading-order access to gluons, presenting an opportunity to constrain gluon spin-momentum correlations within transversely polarized pro…

Pseudorapidity dependence of particle production and elliptic flow in asymmetric nuclear collisions of $p$ $+$ Al, $p$ $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au, and $^{3}$ He $+$ Au at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +364

Asymmetric nuclear collisions of $p$ $+$ Al, $p$ $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au, and $^{3}$ He $+$ Au at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV provide an excellent laboratory for understanding particle production…

Measurement of the Sixth-Order Cumulant of Net-Proton Multiplicity Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at $s_{NN} =$ 27, 54.4, and 200 GeV at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, J. Adam +380

According to first principle Lattice QCD calculations, the transition from quark-gluon plasma to hadronic matter is a smooth crossover in the region $I^¼_{B} \leq T_{c}$ . In this…

Upper Limit on the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Isobar Collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +342

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon that arises from the QCD anomaly in the presence of an external magnetic field. The experimental search for its evidence has been o…

hep-ex2024

The BM@N spectrometer at the NICA accelerator complex

S. Afanasiev, G. Agakishiev, E. Aleksandrov +208

BM@N (Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron) is the first experiment operating and taking data at the Nuclotron/NICA ion-accelerating complex.The aim of the BM@N experiment is to study inte…

Beam energy dependence of the linear and mode-coupled flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +341

The linear and mode-coupled contributions to higher-order anisotropic flow are presented for Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN}$ = 27, 39, 54.4, and 200 GeV and compared t…

Two-particle correlations on transverse rapidity in Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN} = 200$ GeV at STAR

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +381

Two-particle correlation measurements projected onto two-dimensional, transverse rapidity coordinates ( $y_{T 1}, y_{T 2}$ ), allow access to dynamical properties of the QCD medium prod…

hep-ex2017

Measurements of $B \to J / I ¨ $ at forward rapidity in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s = 510$ GeV

C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba +427

We report the first measurement of the fraction of $J / I ¨ $ mesons coming from $B$ -meson decay ( $F_{B \to J / I ¨ }$ ) in $p$ + $p$ collisions at $s =$ 510 GeV. The measuremen…

Centrality categorization for R_{p(d)+A} in high-energy collisions

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +374

High-energy proton- and deuteron-nucleus collisions provide an excellent tool for studying a wide array of physics effects, including modifications of parton distribution functions…

Production of protons, deuterons and tritons in argon-nucleus interactions at 3.2 AGeV

S. Afanasiev, G. Agakishiev, A. Aleksandrov +200

Results of the BM@N experiment at the Nuclotron/NICA complex on the production of protons, deuterons and tritons in interactions of an argon beam of 3.2 AGeV with fixed targets of…

Transverse single-spin asymmetry of forward $I^\cdot$ mesons in $p^{↑} + p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +380

Utilizing the 2012 transversely polarized proton data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the forward $I^\cdot$ -meson transverse single-spin asym…

Beam-Energy Dependence of the Directed Flow of Deuterons in Au+Au Collisions

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +351

We present a measurement of the first-order azimuthal anisotropy, $v_{1} (y)$ , of deuterons from Au+Au collisions at $s_{N N}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV recorded w…

Measurement of charged pion double spin asymmetries at midrapidity in longitudinally polarized $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s = 510$ GeV

U. A. Acharya, A. Adare, C. Aidala +357

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured the longitudinal double spin asymmetries, $A_{LL}$ , for charged pions at midrapidity ( $∣ I^\cdot ∣ < 0.35$ ) in long…

Disappearance of partonic collectivity in $s_{N N}$ = 3 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +384

We report on the measurements of directed flow $v_{1}$ and elliptic flow $v_{2}$ for hadrons ( $I ¨ ^{\pm}$ , $K^{\pm}$ , $K_{S}^{0}$ , $p$ , $I ¨ $ , $I^$ and $I^^{-}$ ) from Au+Au collisions at $…

Production of omega mesons in p+p, d+Au, Cu+Cu, and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +538

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured omega meson production via leptonic and hadronic decay channels in p+p, d+Au, Cu+Cu, and Au+Au coll…

nucl-ex2019

Multi-particle azimuthal correlations for extracting event-by-event elliptic and triangular flow in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +319

We present measurements of elliptic and triangular azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles detected at forward rapidity $1 < ∣ I^\cdot ∣ < 3$ in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ …

Measurement of $I ¨ $ -meson production at forward rapidity in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s$ =510 GeV and energy dependence of $I ¨ _{I ¨} $ from $s$ =200 GeV to 7 TeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +355

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured the differential cross section of $I ¨ $ (1020)-meson production at forward rapidity in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions…

Dielectron production in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{N N}$ =200 GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +444

We present measurements of $e^{+} e^{-}$ production at midrapidity in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV. The invariant yield is studied within the PHENIX detector accep…

nucl-ex2026

Elliptic flow of $π^{0}$ mesons in Cu $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV and U $+$ U at $s_{_{N N}} = 193$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +386

The second-order azimuthal anisotropy coefficients ( $v_{2}$ ) of neutral $π$ mesons ( $π^{0}$ ) have been measured as a function of the transverse momentum ( $p_{T}$ ) and centrality of Cu $+$ …

Low- $p_{T}$ direct-photon production in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 39$ and 62.4 GeV

N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya, A. Adare +431

The measurement of direct photons from Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 39$ and 62.4 GeV in the transverse-momentum range $0.4 < p_{T} < 3$ Gev/ $c$ is presented by the PHENIX coll…

hep-ex2022

Kinematic dependence of azimuthal anisotropies in $p$ $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au, $^{3}$ He+Au at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV

U. A. Acharya, A. Adare, C. Aidala +378

There is strong evidence for the formation of small droplets of quark-gluon plasma in $p / d /^{3}$ He+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and in $p$ + $p$ /Pb col…

Measurements of production and inelastic cross sections for $\mbox{p}+\mbox{C}$, $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Be}$, and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Al}$ at 60 GeV/ $c$ and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{C}$ and $\mbox{p}+\mbox{Be}$ at 120 GeV/ $c$

SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +143

This paper presents measurements of production cross sections and inelastic cross sections for the following reactions: 60 GeV/ $c$ protons with C, Be, Al targets and 120 GeV/ $c$ pr…

Cumulants and Correlation Functions of Net-proton, Proton and Antiproton Multiplicity Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, J. Adam +379

We report a systematic measurement of cumulants, $C_{n}$ , for net-proton, proton and antiproton multiplicity distributions, and correlation functions, $I^º_{n}$ , for proton and antipr…

Comparison of transverse single-spin asymmetries for forward $I ¨ ^{0}$ production in polarized $pp$ , $p Al$ and $p Au$ collisions at nucleon pair c.m. energy $s_{NN} = 200$ GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +358

The STAR Collaboration reports a measurement of the transverse single-spin asymmetries, $A_{N}$ , for neutral pions produced in polarized proton collisions with protons ( $pp$ ), with…

Cross sections of $I^\cdot$ mesons in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at forward rapidity at $s = 500$ GeV and central rapidity at $s = 510$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +497

We present the first measurements of the forward and midrapidity $I^\cdot$ -meson cross sections from $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s = 500$ and $510$ ~GeV, respectively. We also report t…

Evolution of pi^0 suppression in Au+Au collisions from sqrt(s_NN) = 39 to 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +367

Neutral-pion, pi^0, spectra were measured at midrapidity (|y|<0.35) in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 39 and 62.4 GeV and compared to earlier measurements at 200 GeV in the 1<p_T…

Measurement of D $^{0}$ -meson + hadron two-dimensional angular correlations in Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN} =$ 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +347

Open heavy flavor hadrons provide unique probes of the medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Due to their increased mass relative to light-flavor hadrons, lon…

Production of $b b ˉ$ at forward rapidity in $p$ + $p$ collisions at $s = 510$ GeV

U. Acharya, A. Adare, C. Aidala +347

The cross section of bottom quark-antiquark ( $b b ˉ$ ) production in $p$ + $p$ collisions at $s = 510$ GeV is measured with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion C…

nucl-ex2016

$I ¨ $ meson production in the forward/backward rapidity region in Cu $+$ Au collisions at $s_{N N} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +509

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured $I ¨ $ meson production and its nuclear modification in asymmetric Cu $+$ Au heavy-ion collisions at $\…

hep-ex2012

Pion emission from the T2K replica target: method, results and application

N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, T. Anticic +150

The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan needs precise predictions of the initial neutrino flux. The highest precision can be reached based on detailed measur…

$K^{*} (892)^{0}$ meson production in inelastic $p + p$ interactions at 40 and 80 GeV/ $c$ beam momenta measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

SHINE Collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +145

Measurements of $K^{*} (892)^{0}$ resonance production via its $K^{+} I ¨ ^{-}$ decay mode in inelastic $p + p$ collisions at beam momenta 40 and 80 GeV/ $c$ ( $s_{N N} = 8.8$ and 12.3 G…

hep-ex2011

Ground and excited charmonium state production in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +444

We report on charmonium measurements [J/psi(1S), psi'(2S), and chi_c(1P)] in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV. We find that the fraction of J/psi coming from the feed-down decay o…

Constraining the initial conditions and temperature dependent transport with three-particle correlations in Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +340

We present three-particle mixed-harmonic correlations $\la \cos (mÏ_a + nÏ_b - (m+n) Ï_c)\ra$ for harmonics $m, n = 1 - 3$ for charged particles in $s_{N N} =$ 200 GeV Au+Au coll…

Invariant Jet Mass Measurements in $pp$ Collisions at $s = 200$ GeV at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, J. Adam +377

We present the first inclusive measurements of the invariant and SoftDrop jet mass in proton-proton collisions at $s = 200$ GeV at STAR. The measurements are fully corrected f…

Measurements of mass-dependent azimuthal anisotropy in central $p$ $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au, and $^{3}$ He $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +349

We present measurements of the transverse-momentum dependence of elliptic flow $v_{2}$ for identified pions and (anti)protons at midrapidity ( $∣ I^\cdot ∣ < 0.35$ ), in 0%--5% central $p$ $+$ Au…

Global $I^$ -hyperon polarization in Au+Au collisions at $s_{NN} = 3$ GeV

M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +383

Global hyperon polarization, $P_{H}$ , in Au+Au collisions over a large range of collision energy, $s_{NN}$ , was recently measured and successfully r…

Heavy-quark production and elliptic flow in Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 62.4$ GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +366

We present measurements of electrons and positrons from the semileptonic decays of heavy-flavor hadrons at midrapidity ( $∣ y ∣ <$ 0.35) in Au $+$ Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=62.4…

Measurements of $I ¨ ^{-}$ production in $^{7}$ Be+ $^{9}$ Be collisions at beam momenta from 19 $A$ to 150 $A$ GeV/ $c$ in the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS

SHINE Collaboration, A. Acharya, H. Adhikary +139

The NA61/SHINE collaboration studies at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) the onset of deconfinement in hadronic matter by the measurement of particle production in collision…

Systematic study of nuclear effects in $p$ $+$ Al, $p$ $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au, and $^{3}$ He $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV using $I ¨ ^{0}$ production

U. A. Acharya, A. Adare, C. Aidala +550

The PHENIX collaboration presents a systematic study of $I ¨ ^{0}$ production from $p$ $+$ $p$ , $p$ $+$ Al, $p$ $+$ Au, $d$ $+$ Au, and $^{3}$ He $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV.…

Production of $I ¨ ^{0}$ and $I^\cdot$ mesons in U $+$ U collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 192$ GeV

U. Acharya, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +399

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider measured $I ¨ ^{0}$ and $I^\cdot$ mesons at midrapidity in U $+$ U collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 192$ GeV in a wide transverse m…

Non-monotonic energy dependence of net-proton number fluctuations

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +347

Non-monotonic variation with collision energy ( $s_{NN}$ ) of the moments of the net-baryon number distribution in heavy-ion collisions, related to the correlation length…

Transverse-energy distributions at midrapidity in $p$ $+$ $p$ , $d$ $+$ Au, and Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 62.4$ --200~GeV and implications for particle-production models

S. S. Adler, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +388

Measurements of the midrapidity transverse energy distribution, $d\Et/dÎ·$, are presented for $p$ $+$ $p$ , $d$ $+$ Au, and Au $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV and addition…

Low-momentum direct photon measurement in Cu $+$ Cu collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +447

We have measured direct photons for $p_{T} < 5$ GeV/ $c$ in minimum bias and 0\%--40\% most central events at midrapidity for Cu $+$ Cu collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV. The $e^{+…

hep-ex2011

Measurement of Production Properties of Positively Charged Kaons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c

SHINE Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz +135

Spectra of positively charged kaons in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c were measured with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data co…

A new method for the experimental study of topological effects in the quark-gluon plasma

N. N. Ajitanand, Roy A. Lacey, A. Taranenko +1

A new method is presented for the quantitative measurement of charge separation about the reaction plane. A correlation function is obtained whose shape is concave when there is a…

Measurement of inclusive charged-particle jet production in Au+Au collisions at $s_{N N}$ =200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +352

The STAR Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider reports the first measurement of inclusive jet production in peripheral and central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}…

nucl-ex2005

Multiparticle angular correlations: a probe for the sQGP at RHIC

W. G. Holzmann, N. N. Ajitanand, J. M. Alexander +5

A novel decomposition technique is used to extract the centrality dependence of di-jet properties and yields from azimuthal correlation functions obtained in Au+Au collisions at $\…

Creating small circular, elliptical, and triangular droplets of quark-gluon plasma

C. Aidala, Y. Akiba, M. Alfred +316

The experimental study of the collisions of heavy nuclei at relativistic energies has established the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of hot, dense nuclear matt…

Measurement of Groomed Jet Substructure Observables in \pp Collisions at $s = 200$ GeV with STAR

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +348

In this letter, measurements of the shared momentum fraction ( $z_{g}$ ) and the groomed jet radius ( $R_{g}$ ), as defined in the SoftDrop algorihm, are reported in \pp coll…

nucl-ex2017

Measurements of jet quenching with semi-inclusive hadron+jet distributions in Au+Au collisions at $s_{N N}$ = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +341

The STAR Collaboration reports the measurement of semi-inclusive distributions of charged-particle jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum hadron trigger, in central and per…

Identified charged-hadron production in $p$ $+$ Al, $^{3}$ He $+$ Au, and Cu $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 200$ GeV and in U $+$ U collisions at $s_{_{N N}} = 193$ GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, N. J. Abdulameer, U. Acharya +477

The PHENIX experiment has performed a systematic study of identified charged-hadron ( $I ¨ ^{\pm}$ , $K^{\pm}$ , $p$ , $p ˉ$ ) production at midrapidity in $p$ $+$ Al, $^{3}$ He $+$ Au, Cu $+$ Au…

Azimuthal correlations of electrons from heavy-flavor decay with hadrons in p+p and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +425

Measurements of electrons from the decay of open-heavy-flavor mesons have shown that the yields are suppressed in Au+Au collisions compared to expectations from binary scaled p+p c…

Measurement of charm and bottom production from semileptonic hadron decays in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s_{N N} = 200$ GeV

C. Aidala, Y. Akiba, M. Alfred +299

Measurements of the differential production of electrons from open-heavy-flavor hadrons with charm- and bottom-quark content in $p$ $+$ $p$ collisions at $s = 200$ GeV are prese…

Measurement of the mass difference and the binding energy of the hypertriton and antihypertriton

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +340

According to the CPT theorem, which states that the combined operation of charge conjugation, parity transformation and time reversal must be conserved, particles and their antipar…

Production of $I ¨ ^{0}$ and $I^\cdot$ mesons in Cu $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ =200 GeV

C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba +401

Production of $I ¨ ^{0}$ and $I^\cdot$ mesons has been measured at midrapidity in Cu $+$ Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ =200 GeV. Measurements were performed in $I ¨ ^{0} (I^\cdot) \to I^^{3} I^^{3}$ …

Glauber-based evaluations of the odd moments of the initial eccentricity relative to the even order participant planes

Roy A. Lacey, Rui Wei, N. N. Ajitanand +3

Monte Carlo simulations are used to compute the centrality dependence of the odd moments of the initial eccentricity $I^µ_{n + 1}$ , relative to the even order (n) participant planes $…

Spectra and ratios of identified particles in Au+Au and d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +413

The transverse momentum (p_T) spectra and ratios of identified charged hadrons (Ï^+/-, K^+/-, p, p^bar) produced in sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au+Au and d+Au collisions are reported in fi…

Proton-proton interactions and onset of deconfinement

SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov +133

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is performing a uniqe study of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter by varying collision energy and nuclear mass number of col…

Heavy-flavor electron-muon correlations in $p$ $+$ $p$ and $d$ +Au collisions at $s_{_{N N}}$ = 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +446

We report $e^{\pm} - I^¼^{\mp}$ pair yield from charm decay measured between midrapidity electrons ( $∣ I^\cdot ∣ < 0.35$ and $p_{T} > 0.5$ GeV/ $c$ ) and forward rapidity muons ( $1.4 < I^\cdot < 2.1$ and $p_T>1.…