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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-ex2003★ 95 cited

Azimuthally sensitive Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_{NN}) = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present the results of a systematic study of the shape of the pion distribution in coordinate space at freeze-out in Au+Au collisions at RHIC using two-pion Hanbury Brown-Twiss…

nucl-ex2003★ 412 cited

Identified particle distributions in pp and Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

Transverse mass and rapidity distributions for charged pions, charged kaons, protons and antiprotons are reported for sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV pp and Au+Au collisions at RHIC. The transv…

nucl-ex2003★ 225 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy at RHIC: the first and fourth harmonics

STAR collaboration, J. Adams

We report the first observations of the first harmonic (directed flow, v_1), and the fourth harmonic (v_4), in the azimuthal distribution of particles with respect to the reaction…

nucl-ex2003★ 141 cited

Pion, kaon, proton and anti-proton transverse momentum distributions from p+p and d+Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration

Identified mid-rapidity particle spectra of , , and from 200 GeV p+p and d+Au collisions are reported. A time-of-flight detector based on multi-gap r…

nucl-ex2003★ 102 cited

The TOFp/pVPD Time of Flight System for STAR

W. J. Llope, F. Geurts, J. W. Mitchell +13

A time-of-flight system was constructed for the STAR Experiment for the direct identification of hadrons produced in 197Au+197Au collisions at RHIC. The system consists of two sepa…

nucl-ex2003★ 81 cited

Event-wise mean p_t fluctuations in Au-Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We present the first large-acceptance measurement of event-wise mean transverse momentum mean p_t fluctuations for Au-Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-momentum collision…

nucl-ex2003★ 176 cited

Multi-Strange Baryon Production in Au-Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV

J. Adams

The transverse mass spectra and mid-rapidity yields for s and s plus their anti-particles are presented. The 10% most central collision yields suggest that the amount of mult…

nucl-ex2003★ 112 cited

Multiplicity fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at GeV

J. Adams

We present the results of charged particle fluctuations measurements in Au + Au collisions at GeV using the STAR detector. Dynamical fluctuations measurements a…

nucl-ex2003★ 37 cited

Pion-Kaon correlations in central Au+Au collisions at GeV

J. Adams

Pion-kaon correlation functions are constructed from central Au+Au data taken at GeV. The results suggest that pions and kaons are not emitted at the same ave…

nucl-ex2003★ 154 cited

rho^0 Production and Possible Modification in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

J. Adams

We report results on rho(770)^0 -> pi+pi- production at midrapidity in p+p and peripheral Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. This is the first direct measurement of rho(770)…

nucl-ex2003★ 22 cited

Rapidity and Centrality Dependence of Proton and Anti-proton Production from Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130GeV

J. Adams

We report on the rapidity and centrality dependence of proton and anti-proton transverse mass distributions from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130GeV as measured by the STAR expe…

nucl-ex2003★ 61 cited

Three-Pion Hanbury-Brown-Twiss Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment

STAR Collaboration

Data from the first physics run at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Au+Au collisions at GeV, have been analyzed by the STA…

nucl-ex2003★ 658 cited

Evidence from d+Au measurements for final-state suppression of high hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

J. Adams

We report measurements of single-particle inclusive spectra and two-particle azimuthal distributions of charged hadrons at high transverse momentum (high ) in minimum bias and…

nucl-ex2003★ 555 cited

Particle-type dependence of azimuthal anisotropy and nuclear modification of particle production in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present STAR measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy parameter and the binary-collision scaled centrality ratio for kaons and lambdas () at mid-rapidity…

nucl-ex2003★ 717 cited

Transverse momentum and collision energy dependence of high hadron suppression in Au+Au collisions at ultrarelativistic energies

J. Adams

We report high statistics measurements of inclusive charged hadron production in Au+Au and p+p collisions at \sqrtsNN=200 GeV. A large, approximately constant hadron suppression is…

nucl-ex2003★ 117 cited

Narrowing of the Balance Function with Centrality in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV

STAR Collaboration

The balance function is a new observable based on the principle that charge is locally conserved when particles are pair produced. Balance functions have been measured for charged…