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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-th2006

Baryonic Effect on chi_cJ Suppression in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC Energies

Ru Peng, Xiao-Ming Xu, Dai-Cui Zhou

We predict that initially produced chi_cJ mesons at low transverse momentum in the central rapidity region are almost dissociated by nucleons and antinucleons in hadronic matter pr…

nucl-th2006★ 17 cited

A possible Omega-pi molecular state

W. L. Wang, F. Huang, Z. Y. Zhang +2

The structure of Omega-pi state with isospin I=1 and spin-parity J^p=3/2^- are dynamically studied in both the chiral SU(3) quark model and the extended chiral SU(3) quark model by…

nucl-th2006★ 18 cited

Mean Field Effects In The Quark-Gluon Plasma

Zhi Guang Tan, A. Bonasera

A transport model based on the mean free path approach for an interacting meson system at finite temperatures is discussed. A transition to a quark gluon plasma is included within…

nucl-th2006★ 4 cited

Phase Diagram of Neutron-Proton Condensate in Asymmetric Nuclear Matter

Meng Jin, Lianyi He, Pengfei Zhuang

We investigate the phase structure of homogeneous and inhomogeneous neutron-proton condensate in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. At extremely low nuclear density the condensed m…

nucl-th2006★ 9 cited

-dimensions Dirac fermions BEC-BCS cross-over thermodynamics

Ji-sheng Chen

An effective Proca Lagrangian action is used to address the vector condensation Lorentz violation effects on the equation of state of the strongly interacting fermions system. The…

nucl-th2006★ 10 cited

Universal Scaling of Distribution of Particles in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

L. L. Zhu, C. B. Yang

With the experimental data from STAR, PHENIX and BRAHMS on the centrality and rapidity dependence of the spectrum in Au+Au and d+Au collisions, we show that there exists a sc…

nucl-th2006★ 5 cited

The Narrowing of Charge Balance Function and Hadronization Time in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Du Jiaxin, Li Na, Liu Lianshou

The widths of charge balance function in high energy hadron-hadron and relativistic heavy ion collisions are studied using the Monte Carlo generators PYTHIA and AMPT, respectively.…

nucl-th2006★ 12 cited

Effect of equilibrium phase transition on multiphase transport in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Yu Meiling, Du Jiaxin, Liu Lianshou

The hadronization scheme for parton transport in relativistic heavy ion collisions is considered in detail. It is pointed out that the traditional scheme for particles being freeze…

nucl-th2006★ 6 cited

The imaginary part of the gap function in color superconductivity

Bo Feng, Defu Hou, Jiarong Li +1

We clarify general properties of the energy gap regarding its functional dependence on the energy-momentum dictated by the invariance under a space inversion or a time reversal. Th…

nucl-th2006

Particle distribution and nuclear stopping in Au-Au collisions at =200 GeV

L. L. Zhu, C. B. Yang

The transverse momentum distribution of produced charged particles is investigated for gold-gold collisions at GeV. A simple parameterization is suggested for t…

nucl-th2006★ 8 cited

Forward Production With Large p/πRatio and Without Jet Structure at Any p_T

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

Particle production in the forward region of heavy-ion collisions is shown to be due to parton recombination without shower partons. The regeneration of soft partons due to momentu…

nucl-th2006★ 26 cited

Proton enhancement at large p_T at LHC without structure in associated-particle distribution

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

The production of pions and protons in the range between 10 and 20 GeV/c for Pb+Pb collisions at LHC is studied in the recombination model. It is shown that the dominant mech…

nucl-th2006★ 11 cited

Discrepancy between hadron matter and quark-gluon matter in net charge transfer fluctuation

Dai-Mei Zhou, Xiao-Mei Li, Bao-Guo Dong +1

A parton and hadron cascade model, PACIAE, is employed to investigate the net charge transfer fluctuation within =1 in Au+Au collisions at =200 GeV. It is turne…

nucl-th2006★ 21 cited

Ground state energy of unitary fermion gas with the Thomson Problem approach

Ji-sheng Chen

The dimensionless universal coefficient defines the ratio of the unitary fermions energy density to that for the ideal non-interacting ones in the non-relativistic limit with T…

nucl-th2006★ 55 cited

Production of strange particles at intermediate pT at RHIC

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

The recombination model is applied to the production of and at all in central Au+Au collisions. The thermal-shower component of the recombination is found to be…

nucl-th2006★ 30 cited

Anisotropic flow at RHIC: How unique is the number-of-constituent-quark scaling?

Y. Lu, M. Bleicher, F. Liu +6

The transverse momentum dependence of the anisotropic flow for , , nucleon, , and is studied for Au+Au collisions at GeV within two…

nucl-th2006★ 11 cited

Relating Meson and Baryon Fragmentation Functions by Shower-Parton Recombination

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

We relate the fragmentation functions of partons into mesons and baryons in the framework of recombination of shower partons. The results are in reasonable agreement with the data.…