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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-ex2009★ 65 cited

Studying Parton Energy Loss in Heavy-Ion Collisions via Direct-Photon and Charged-Particle Azimuthal Correlations

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Charged-particle spectra associated with direct photon () and are measured in + and Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energy GeV with…

nucl-ex2009★ 19 cited

Prediction of Underground Argon Content for Dark Matter Experiments

D. -M. Mei, Z. -B. Yin, J. Spaans +4

In this paper, we demonstrate the use of physical models to evaluate the production of Ar and Ar underground. Considering both cosmogenic Ar production and rad…

nucl-ex2009★ 20 cited

Identified high- spectra in Cu+Cu collisions at =200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report new results on identified (anti)proton and charged pion spectra at large transverse momenta (3<<10 GeV/c) from Cu+Cu collisions at =200 GeV using th…

nucl-ex2009★ 4 cited

Rapidity losses in heavy-ion collisions from AGS to RHIC energies

F. C. Zhou, Z. B. Yin, D. C. Zhou

We study the rapidity losses in central heavy-ion collisions from AGS to RHIC energies with the mean rapidity determined from the projectile net-baryon distribution after collision…

nucl-ex2009★ 264 cited

Identified particle production, azimuthal anisotropy, and interferometry measurements in Au+Au collisions at = 9.2 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We present the first measurements of identified hadron production, azimuthal anisotropy, and pion interferometry from Au+Au collisions below the nominal injection energy at the Rel…

nucl-ex2009★ 524 cited

Azimuthal Charged-Particle Correlations and Possible Local Strong Parity Violation

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Parity-odd domains, corresponding to non-trivial topological solutions of the QCD vacuum, might be created during relativistic heavy ion collisions. These domains are predicted to…

nucl-ex2009★ 351 cited

Observation of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations and possible local strong parity violation in heavy ion collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Parity-odd domains, corresponding to non-trivial topological solutions of the QCD vacuum, might be created during relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These domains are predicted to…

nucl-ex2009★ 312 cited

Long range rapidity correlations and jet production in high energy nuclear collisions

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

The STAR Collaboration at RHIC presents a systematic study of high transverse momentum charged di-hadron correlations at small azimuthal pair separation \dphino, in d+Au and centra…

nucl-ex2009★ 31 cited

Neutral Pion Production in Au+Au Collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

The results of mid-rapidity () neutral pion spectra over an extended transverse momentum range ( GeV/) in = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions,…

nucl-ex2009★ 19 cited

Event anisotropy at STAR

Shusu Shi

Collective flow reflects the dynamical evolution in high-energy heavy ion collisions. In particular, the elliptic flow reflects early collision dynamics.We present a systematic ana…

nucl-ex2009★ 90 cited

Growth of Long Range Forward-Backward Multiplicity Correlations with Centrality in Au+Au Collisions at = 200 GeV

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Forward-backward multiplicity correlation strengths have been measured with the STAR detector for Au+Au and collisions at = 200 GeV. Strong short and…

nucl-ex2009★ 15 cited

System size dependence of associated yields in hadron-triggered jets

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We present results on the system size dependence of high transverse momentum di-hadron correlations at = 200 GeV as measured by STAR at RHIC. Measurements in d+Au,…

nucl-ex2009★ 108 cited

J/psi production at high transverse momentum in p+p and Cu+Cu collisions at \sNN=200GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

The STAR collaboration at RHIC presents measurements of \Jpsi at mid-rapidity and high transverse momentum ( GeV/) in \pp and central \cucu collisions at \sN…

nucl-ex2009★ 55 cited

Cosmogenic Production as a Background in Searching for Rare Physics Processes

D. -M. Mei, Z. -B. Yin, S. R. Elliott

We revisit calculations of the cosmogenic production rates for several long-lived isotopes that are potential sources of background in searching for rare physics processes such as…

nucl-ex2009★ 62 cited

K/pi Fluctuations at Relativistic Energies

B. I. Abelev

We report results for fluctuations from Au+Au collisions at = 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV using the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Our…