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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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hep-ph2002★ 15 cited

Evolution of Parton Fragmentation Functions at Finite Temperature

Jonathan A. Osborne, Enke Wang, Xin-Nian Wang

The first order correction to the parton fragmentation functions in a thermal medium is derived in the leading logarithmic approximation in the framework of thermal field theory. T…

hep-ph2002★ 15 cited

New results for hadronic collisions in the framework of the Parton-Based Gribov-Regge Theory

T. Pierog, H. J. Drescher, F. Liu +2

We recently proposed a new approach to high energy nuclear scattering, which treats hadronic collisions in a sophisticated way. Demanding theoretical consistency as a minimal requi…

quant-ph2002★ 5 cited

Unitary reduction of the Liouville equation relative to a two-level atom coupled to a bimodal lossy cavity

A. Napoli, Xiang-ming Hu, A. Messina

The Liouville equation of a two-level atom coupled to a degenerate bimodal lossy cavity is unitarily and exactly reduced to two uncoupled Liouville equations. The first one describ…

nucl-th2002★ 307 cited

Scaling behavior at high p_T and the p/pi ratio

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

We first show that the pions produced at high in heavy-ion collisions over a wide range of high energies exhibit a scaling behavior when the distributions are plotted in term…

nucl-ex2002★ 49 cited

Strange anti-particle to particle ratios at mid-rapidity in sqrt(s_NN)= 130 GeV Au+Au Collisions

J. Adams

Values of the ratios in the mid-rapidity yields of anti-Lambda/Lambda = 0.71 +/- 0.01(stat.) +/- 0.04(sys.), anti-Xi+/Xi- = 0.83 +/- 0.04(stat.) +/- 0.05 (sys.), anti-Omega+/Omega-…

nucl-ex2002★ 689 cited

Disappearance of back-to-back high hadron correlations in central Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

C. Adler

Azimuthal correlations for large transverse momentum charged hadrons have been measured over a wide pseudo-rapidity range and full azimuth in Au+Au and p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s_{…

nucl-th2002★ 8 cited

In-medium meson effects on the equation of state of hot and dense nuclear matter

Ji-sheng Chen, Peng-fei Zhuang, Jia-rong Li

The influence of the in-medium mesons on the effective nucleon mass and in turn on the equation of state of hot/dense nuclear matter is discussed in the Walecka model. Due to the s…

nucl-th2002★ 11 cited

Dispersion relation of the meson in hot/dense nuclear matter

Ji-Sheng Chen, Jia-Rong Li, Peng-Fei Zhuang

The dispersion relation of meson in both timelike and spacelike regimes in hot and dense nuclear medium is analyzed and compared with meson based on the quantum hadrodynami…

hep-ex2002★ 18 cited

Psi(2S) two- and three-body hadronic decays

BES Collaboration, J. Z. Bai

We report measurements of branching fractions for psi(2S) decays into omega pi pi, b1 pi,omega f2(1270),omega KK, omega p pbar, phi pi pi, phi f0(980),phi KK, and an upper limit fo…

nucl-th2002

Jet Quenching with Detailed Balance in a Thermal QCD Medium

Enke Wang, Xin-Nian Wang

The effect of detailed balance in induced gluon radiation for an energetic parton propagating inside a quark-gluon plasma is discussed. The stimulated thermal gluon emission reduce…

nucl-ex2002★ 387 cited

Elliptic flow from two- and four-particle correlations in Au + Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV

STAR collaboration

Elliptic flow holds much promise for studying the early-time thermalization attained in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. Flow measurements also provide a means of distinguishi…

hep-ph2002★ 16 cited

Scattering amplitudes at finite temperature

M. E. Carrington, Hou Defu, R. Kobes

We present a simple set of rules for obtaining the imaginary part of a self energy diagram at finite temperature in terms of diagrams that correspond to physical scattering amplitu…

nucl-ex2002★ 75 cited

Kaon Production and Kaon to Pion Ratio in Au+Au Collisions at $\snn=130$ GeV

STAR Collaboration

Mid-rapidity transverse mass spectra and multiplicity densities of charged and neutral kaons are reported for Au+Au collisions at $\snn$=130 GeV at RHIC. The spectra are exponentia…

nucl-th2002★ 14 cited

Strangeness Enhancement in the Parton Model

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

Strangeness enhancement in heavy-ion collisions is studied at the parton level by examining the partition of the new sea quarks generated by gluon conversion into the strange and n…

nucl-ex2002★ 137 cited

Coherent rho^0 Production in Ultra-Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions

C. Adler

The STAR collaboration reports the first observation of exclusive rho^0 photo-production, AuAu->AuAu rho^0, and rho^0 production accompanied by mutual nuclear Coulomb excitation, A…

hep-ph2002★ 9 cited

A Novel Mechanism of H^0 Di-baryon Production in Proton-Proton Interactions from Parton Based Gribov-Regge Theory

M. Bleicher, F. M. Liu, J. Aichelin +4

A novel mechanism of H^0 and strangelet production in hadronic interactions within the Gribov-Regge approach is presented. In contrast to traditional distillation approaches, here…

nucl-th2002

Charged multiplicity density and number of participant nucleons in relativistic nuclear collisions

Ben-Hao Sa, A. Bonasera, Xu Cai +2

The energy and centrality dependences of charged particle pseudorapidity density in relativistic nuclear collisions were studied using a hadron and string cascade model, JPCIAE. Bo…

hep-ph2002★ 105 cited

Inclusive Distributions for Hadronic Collisions in the Valon-Recombination Model

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

Inclusive distributions of soft production of mesons in hadronic collisions are calculated in the valon-recombination model. The new determination of the valon distributions from h…

hep-ph2002★ 2 cited

A comparison of different methods in the study of dynamical fluctuations in high energy e+e- collisions

Chen Gang, Liu Lianshou

Different methods in the study of anomalous scaling of factorial moments in high energy e+e- collisions are examined in some detail. It is shown that the horizontal and vertical fa…

nucl-ex2002★ 176 cited

Mid-rapidity and Production in Au+Au Collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, C. Adler

We report the first measurement of strange () and anti-strange () baryon production from GeV Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collide…

hep-ph2002★ 1 cited

A Monte Carlo Study on the Dynamical Fluctuations Inside Quark and Antiquark Jets

Zhang Kunshi, Chen Gang, Liu Lianshou

The dynamical fluctuations inside the quark and antiquark jets are studied using Monte Carlo method. Quark and antiquark jets are identified from the 2-jet events in e+e- collision…

gr-qc2002★ 14 cited

Hawking Radiation of Dirac Particles in an Arbitrarily Accelerating Kinnersley Black Hole

S. Q. Wu, X. Cai

Quantum thermal effect of Dirac particles in an arbitrarily accelerating Kinnersley black hole is investigated by using the method of generalized tortoise coordinate transformation…

hep-ph2002

Kinetic-theory approach to Gluon Self-energy beyond Hard Thermal Loops

Zheng Xiaoping, Li Jiarong

We compare the effective dynamics of soft fields, based on temperature field theory, with the mean field dynamics from non-Abelian kinetic theory. We derive the polarization tensor…

hep-ph2002★ 57 cited

Parton Distributions in the Valon Model

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

The parton distribution functions determined by CTEQ at low are used as inputs to test the validity of the valon model. The valon distributions in a nucleon are first found t…