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nucl-ex2010★ 21 cited

Nuclear structure and reaction studies at SPIRAL

A. Navin, F. De Oliveira Santos, P. Roussel-Chomaz +1

The SPIRAL facility at GANIL, operational since 2001, is described briefly. The diverse physics program using the re-accelerated (1.2 to 25 MeV/u) beams ranging from He to Kr and t…

nucl-ex2010★ 20 cited

Near-threshold Photoproduction of Phi Mesons from Deuterium

X. Qian, W. Chen, H. Gao +144

We report the first measurement of the differential cross section on -meson photoproduction from deuterium near the production threshold for a proton using the CLAS detector and…

nucl-ex2010★ 101 cited

Search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables in elastic scattering

M. Meziane, E. J. Brash, R. Gilman +108

Intensive theoretical and experimental efforts over the past decade have aimed at explaining the discrepancy between data for the proton electric to magnetic form factor ratio, $G_…

nucl-ex2010★ 13 cited

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…

nucl-ex2010★ 6 cited

Coherent Photoproduction of pi^+ from 3^He

Rakhsha Nasseripour, Barry Berman, the CLAS Collaboration

We have measured the differential cross section for the He reaction. This reaction was studied using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jef…

nucl-ex2010★ 11 cited

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%)…

nucl-ex2010★ 112 cited

Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on J/psi Yields as a Function of Rapidity and Nuclear Geometry in Deuteron-Gold Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +445

We present measurements of J/psi yields in d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV recorded by the PHENIX experiment and compare with yields in p+p collisions at the same energy pe…

nucl-ex2010★ 32 cited

Tensor Correlations Measured in 3He(e,e'pp)n

H. Baghdasaryan, L. B. Weinstein, J. M. Laget +124

We have measured the 3He(e,e'pp)n reaction at an incident energy of 4.7 GeV over a wide kinematic range. We identified spectator correlated pp and pn nucleon pairs using kinematic…

nucl-ex2010★ 100 cited

Isospin dependent multifragmentation of relativistic projectiles

R. Ogul, A. S. Botvina, U. Atav +57

The N/Z dependence of projectile fragmentation at relativistic energies has been studied with the ALADIN forward spectrometer at the GSI Schwerionen Synchrotron (SIS). Stable and r…

nucl-ex2010★ 39 cited

Transverse momentum dependence of eta meson suppression in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

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

New measurements by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC for eta production at midrapidity as a function of transverse momentum (p_T) and collision centrality in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+A…

nucl-ex2010★ 9 cited

Probing pre-formed alpha particles in the ground state of nuclei

J. A. Scarpaci, M. Fallot, D. Lacroix +18

In this Letter, we report on alpha particle emission through the nuclear break-up in the reaction 40Ca on a 40Ca target at 50A MeV. It is observed that, similarly to nucleons, alph…

nucl-ex2010★ 275 cited

Heavy Quark Production in p+p and Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +420

Transverse momentum (p^e_T) spectra of electrons from semileptonic weak decays of heavy flavor mesons in the range of 0.3 < p^e_T < 9.0 GeV/c have been measured at mid-rapidity (|e…

nucl-ex2010★ 7 cited

Structural effects in the nuclide distributions of the residues of highly excited systems

P. Napolitani, F. Rejmund, L. Tassan-Got +6

New data from GSI on the production-cross-section for fragmentation of the systems 56Fe+p and 56Fe+Ti at 1 A GeV revealed the appearance of even-odd staggering in the cross-section…

nucl-ex2010★ 110 cited

Nuclear modification factors of phi mesons in d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(S_NN)=200 GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, A. Adare, S. Afanasiev +529

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has performed systematic measurements of phi meson production in the K+K- decay channel at midrapidity in p+p, d…

nucl-ex2010★ 45 cited

Migration of nuclear shell gaps studied in the d(24Ne,p gamma)25Ne reaction

W. N. Catford, C. N. Timis, R. C. Lemmon +26

The transfer of neutrons onto 24Ne has been measured using a reaccelerated radioactive beam of 24Ne to study the (d,p) reaction in inverse kinematics. The unusual raising of the fi…

nucl-ex2010★ 2 cited

The prominent role of the heaviest fragment in multifragmentation and phase transition for hot nuclei

Bernard Borderie, E. Bonnet, N. Le Neindre +20

The role played by the heaviest fragment in partitions of multifragmenting hot nuclei is emphasized. Its size/charge distribution (mean value, fluctuations and shape) gives informa…

nucl-ex2010★ 1 cited

Isospin Diffusion in Ni-Induced Reactions at Intermediate Energies

E. Galichet, Marie-France Rivet, B. Borderie +17

Isospin diffusion is probed as a function of the dissipated energy by studying two systems Ni+Ni and Ni+Au, over the incident energy range 52-74\AM. Ex…

nucl-ex2010★ 99 cited

Elliptic and hexadecapole flow of charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

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

Differential measurements of the elliptic (v_2) and hexadecapole (v_4) Fourier flow coefficients are reported for charged hadrons as a function of transverse momentum (p_T) and col…

nucl-ex2010★ 38 cited

Exclusive Neutral Pion Electroproduction in the Deeply Virtual Regime

Eric Fuchey, Alexandre Camsonne, Carlos Munoz Camacho +2

We present measurements of the ep->ep pi^0 cross section extracted at two values of four-momentum transfer Q^2=1.9 GeV^2 and Q^2=2.3 GeV^2 at Jefferson Lab Hall A. The kinematic ra…

nucl-ex2010★ 196 cited

Indication of a deeply bound compact K-pp state formed in the pp -> p Lambda K+ reaction at 2.85 GeV

T. Yamazaki, M. Maggiora, P. Kienle +34

We have analyzed data of the DISTO experiment on the exclusive pp -> p Lambda K+ reaction at 2.85 GeV to search for a strongly bound compact K-pp (= X) state to be formed in the pp…