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hep-ex2003★ 6 cited

Search for K_S K_S in J/psi and psi(2S) decays

J. Z. Bai, BES Collaboration

The CP violating processes J/psi-->K_S K_S and psi(2S)-->K_S K_S are searched for using samples of 58 million J/psi and 14 million psi(2S) events collected with the Beijing Spectro…

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…

hep-ph2003★ 108 cited

Recombination of shower partons in fragmentation processes

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

We develop the notion of shower partons and determine their distributions in jets in the framework of the recombination model. The shower parton distributions obtained render a goo…

hep-ph2003★ 12 cited

Extracting Event Dynamics from Event-by-Event Analysis

Jinghua Fu, Lianshou Liu

The problem of eliminating the statistical fluctuations and extracting the event dynamics from event-by-event analysis is discussed. New moments (for continuous distribution)…

hep-ex2003★ 32 cited

First observation of psi(2S)-->K_S K_L

J. Z. Bai

The decay psi(2S)-->K_S K_L is observed for the first time using psi(2S) data collected with the Beijing Spectrometer (BESII) at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC); the…

hep-ex2003★ 27 cited

Improved measurement of the branching ratio of J/psi-->K_S K_L

J. Z. Bai

The branching ratio of J/psi-->K_S K_L is measured with improved precision to be B(J/psi-->K_S K_L) = (1.82\pm 0.04\pm 0.13)\times 10^{-4}. using J/psi data collected with the Beij…

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…

hep-ex2003★ 263 cited

Cross Sections and Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Forward Neutral-Pion Production from Proton Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

Measurements of the production of forward high-energy pi0 mesons from transversely polarized proton collisions at \sqrt{s}=200 GeV are reported. The cross section is generally cons…

nucl-th2003★ 301 cited

Heavy Quark Energy Loss in Nuclear Medium

Ben-Wei Zhang, Enke Wang, Xin-Nian Wang

Multiple scattering, modified fragmentation functions and radiative energy loss of a heavy quark propagating in a nuclear medium are investigated in perturbative QCD. Because of th…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003★ 470 cited

Statistical Analysis of Airport Network of China

W. Li, X. Cai

Through the study of airport network of China (ANC), composed of 128 airports (nodes) and 1165 flights (edges), we show the topological structure of ANC conveys two characteristics…

nucl-th2003★ 10 cited

pairing correlation in symmetric nuclear matter with Debye screening effects

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

The pairing of symmetric nuclear matter is discussed in the frame work of relativistic nuclear theory with Dyson-Schwinger equations (DSEs). The in-medium nucleon and meso…

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…

hep-ex2003★ 14 cited

Measurement of Branching Ratios for Hadronic Decays

J. Z. Bai

In a sample of 58 million events collected with the BES II detector, the process J/ is observed in five decay channels: , , $K^\…

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-th2003★ 7 cited

Fractional Energy Loss and Centrality Scaling

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

The phenomenon of centrality scaling in the high-\pt spectra of produced in Au-Au collisions at GeV is examined in the framework of relating fractional energy l…

hep-ex2003★ 62 cited

Partial Wave Analyses of and

J. Z. Bai et al

Results are presented on radiative decays to and based on a sample of 58M events taken with the BES II detector. A partial wave analysis is carrie…

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…

hep-ph2003★ 24 cited

A Micro-Canonical Description of Hadron Production in Proton-Proton Collisions

F. M. Liu, K. Werner, J. Aichelin +2

A micro-canonical treatment is used to study particle production in pp collisions. First this micro-canonical treatment is compared to some canonical ones. Then proton, antiproton…

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)…

hep-ph2003★ 19 cited

Micro-Canonical Hadron Production in pp collisions

F. M. Liu, J. Aichelin, K. Werner +1

We apply a microcanonical statistical model to investigate hadron production in pp collisions. The parameters of the model are the energy E and the volume V of the system, which we…