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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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nucl-ex2007★ 59 cited

Energy Dependence of Multiplicity Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions at the CERN SPS

The NA49 Collaboration, B. Lungwitz

Multiplicity fluctuations of positively, negatively and all charged hadrons in the forward hemisphere were studied in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV. T…

nucl-ex2007★ 14 cited

Neutron Interactions as Seen by A Segmented Germanium Detector

I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kroeninger +3

The GERmanium Detector Array, GERDA, is designed for the search for ``neutrinoless double beta decay'' (0-nu-2-beta) with germanium detectors enriched in Ge76. An 18-fold segmented…

nucl-ex2007★ 38 cited

High Transverse Momentum Hadron Spectra at sqrt{s_{NN}}=17.3 GeV, in Pb+Pb and p+p Collisions

NA49 Collaboration

Transverse momentum spectra up to 4.5 GeV/c around midrapidity of pi^{+/-}, p, pbar, K^{+/-} in Pb+Pb reactions were measured at sqrt{s_{NN}}=17.3 GeV by the CERN-NA49 experiment.…

nucl-ex2007★ 380 cited

Pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A and 30A GeV: Evidence for the onset of deconfinement

NA49 Collaboration

Results on charged pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A and 30A GeV are presented and compared to data at lower and higher energies. A rapid change of the en…

nucl-ex2007★ 58 cited

Bose-Einstein correlations of pion pairs in central Pb+Pb collisions at CERN SPS energies

NA49 Collaboration

Measurements of Bose-Einstein correlations of pion pairs in central Pb+Pb collisions were performed with the NA49 detector at the CERN SPS for beam energies of 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A,…

nucl-ex2007★ 5 cited

Test of pulse shape analysis using single Compton scattering events

I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kröninger +3

Compton scattering is one of the dominant interaction processes in germanium for photons with an energy of around two MeV. If a photon scatters only once inside a germanium detecto…

nucl-ex2007★ 4 cited

Forward Lambda Production and Nuclear Stopping Power in d + Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report the measurement of Lamda and Anti-Lamda yields and inverse slope parameters in d + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV at forward and backward rapidities (y = +- 2.75),…

nucl-ex2007★ 25 cited

Rapidity and energy dependence of the electric charge correlations in A+A collisions at the SPS energies

NA49 Collaboration

Results from electric charge correlations studied with the Balance Function method in A+A collisions from 20\emph{A} to 158\emph{A} GeV are presented in two different rapidity inte…

nucl-ex2007★ 129 cited

Enhanced strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions compared to p+p at sqrts = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report on the observed differences in production rates of strange and multi-strange baryons in Au+Au collisions at sqrts = 200 GeV compared to pp interactions at the same energy…

nucl-ex2007★ 157 cited

Global polarization measurement in Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev, I. Selyuzhenkov

The system created in non-central relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions possesses large orbital angular momentum. Due to spin-orbit coupling, particles produced in such a system…

nucl-ex2007★ 17 cited

Pulse shapes from electron and photon induced events in segmented high-purity germanium detectors

I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kröninger +3

Experiments built to search for neutrinoless double beta-decay are limited in their sensitivity not only by the exposure but also by the amount of background encountered. Radioacti…

nucl-ex2007★ 204 cited

Partonic flow and -meson production in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

B. I. Abelev

We present first measurements of the -meson elliptic flow () and high statistics distributions for different centralities from = 200 GeV Au…

nucl-ex2007★ 132 cited

Mass, quark-number, and dependence of the second and fourth flow harmonics in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions

the STAR Collaboration

We present STAR measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy parameter for pions, kaons, protons, , , , and , along with for pions, kaons, prot…

nucl-ex2007★ 23 cited

Identification of photons in double beta-decay experiments using segmented germanium detectors - studies with a GERDA Phase II prototype detector

I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kröninger +3

The sensitivity of experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta-decay of germanium was so far limited by the background induced by external gamma-radiation. Segmented germani…

nucl-ex2007★ 42 cited

Characterization of the first true coaxial 18-fold segmented n-type prototype detector for the GERDA project

I. Abt, A. Caldwell, D. Gutknecht +7

The first true coaxial 18-fold segmented n-type HPGe prototype detector produced by Canberra-France for the GERDA neutrinoless double beta-decay project was tested both at Canberra…