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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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astro-ph2004★ 4 cited

The Neutrino Emissivity of Strange Stars with Ultra Strong Magnetic Field

Liu Xuewen, Zheng Xiaoping, Hou Defu

The effect of a strong magnetic field on the dominant neutrino emissivity in strange stars is investigated. In ultra strong magnetic field, there exists an enhanced neutrino emissi…

quant-ph2004★ 471 cited

Multiparty Quantum Secret Sharing

Zhan-jun Zhang, Yong Li, Zhong-xiao Man

Based on a quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol [Phys. Rev. A69(04)052319], we propose a -threshold scheme of multiparty quantum secret sharing of classical m…

hep-ph2004★ 35 cited

Chemical equilibration due to heavy Hagedorn states

C. Greiner, P. Koch-Steinheimer, F. M. Liu +2

A scenario of heavy resonances, called massive Hagedorn states, is proposed which exhibits a fast ( fm/c) chemical equilibration of (strange) baryons and anti-baryons a…

nucl-th2004★ 72 cited

Modified Dihadron Fragmentation Functions in Hot and Nuclear Matter

A. Majumder, Enke Wang, Xin-Nian Wang

Medium modification of dihadron fragmentation functions due to gluon bremsstrahlung induced by multiple partonic scattering is studied in both deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) off l…

nucl-ex2004★ 181 cited

K(892)* Resonance Production in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

The short-lived resonance provides an efficient tool to probe properties of the hot and dense medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report measureme…

hep-ph2004★ 46 cited

Multiple Parton Scattering in Nuclei: Heavy Quark Energy Loss and Modified Fragmentation Functions

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

Multiple scattering, induced radiative energy loss and modified fragmentation functions of a heavy quark in nuclear matter are studied within the framework of generalized factoriza…

hep-ph2004★ 5 cited

Particle Production in Proton-Proton and Deuteron-Gold Collisions at RHIC

Klaus Werner, Fuming Liu, Tanguy Pierog

We try to understand recent data on proton-proton and deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC, employing a parton model approach called EPOS.

hep-ex2004★ 6 cited

Charge Fluctuations in $π^{+}\rp$ and $\rK^{+}\rp$ Collisions at 250 GeV/

M. R. Atayan, Bai Yuting, E. A. De Wolf +13

We report on measurements of event-by-event charge fluctuations in $π^{+}\rp$ and $\rK^{+}\rp$ collisions at 250 GeV/. The dependence of these fluctuations on the size of the ra…

nucl-th2004★ 1 cited

Jet quenching of massive quarks in a nuclear medium

Ben-Wei Zhang

Utilizing the generalized factorization of twist-4 processes, we derive the modified heavy quark fragmentation function after considering the gluon radiation induced by multiple sc…

math.DG2004

Dirac-Harmonic Maps

Qun Chen, Juergen Jost, Jiayu Li +1

We introduce a functional that couples the nonlinear sigma model with a spinor field: $L=\int_M[|dϕ|^2+(ψ,\Dψ)]$. In two dimensions, it is conformally invariant. The critical point…

hep-ex2004★ 280 cited

Resonances in and

M. Ablikim

A partial wave analysis is presented of and from a sample of 58M events in the BES II detector. The is observed clearly in both sets of…

quant-ph2004★ 53 cited

Improved Wójcik's Eavesdropping Attack on Ping-Pong Protocol Without Eavesdropping-Induced Channel Loss

Zhan-jun Zhang, Yong Li, Zhong-xiao Man

The eavesdropping scheme proposed by Wójcik [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 90},157901(2003)] on the ping-pong protocol [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 89}, 187902(2002)] is improved by constituting…

hep-ex2004★ 40 cited

Measurement of Cross Sections for and Production in Annihilation at GeV

BES Collaboration

The cross sections for and production at 3.773 GeV have been measured with BES-II detector at BEPC. These measurements are made by analyzing a data sample…

nucl-ex2004★ 283 cited

Pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present a systematic analysis of two-pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC. We extract the HBT radii and study the…

nucl-ex2004★ 216 cited

Minijet deformation and charge-independent angular correlations on momentum subspace in Au-Au collisions at = 130 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

First measurements of charge-independent correlations on angular difference variables (pseudorapidity) and (azimuth) are presented for primary charged hadro…

hep-ph2004★ 58 cited

Polarizations in decays B_{u,d}\to VV and possible implications for R-parity violating SUSY

Ya-Dong Yang, Ru-Min Wang, Gong-Ru Lu

Recently BABAR and Belle have measured anomalous large transverse polarizations in some pure penguin decays, which might be inconsistent with the Standard Model expectat…

astro-ph2004★ 13 cited

Cooling of strange stars in the color-flavor locked phase with a rotating crust Cooling of strange stars in the color-flavor locked phase with a rotating crust

Yu Yunwei, Zheng Xiaoping Yu Yunwei, Zheng Xiaoping

The presence of the color-flavor locked (CFL) phase strongly suppresses the neutrino emission processes and the quark specific heat. As a result the cooling of the strange stars in…

hep-ex2004★ 29 cited

Measurement of the final states , , and from $\psip$ electromagnetic decays and $\ee$ annihilations

M. Ablikim

Cross sections and form factors for $\ee \to \wpi$, , and $ρ\etap$ at center of mass energies of 3.650, 3.686, and 3.773 GeV are measured using data samples collected with the…

nucl-th2004★ 47 cited

Forward Production in d+Au Collisions by Parton Recombination

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang, R. J. Fries

Hadron production at forward rapidities in d+Au collisions is studied in the framework of parton recombination in the final state. Multiple scattering and gluon saturation in the i…

hep-ex2004★ 37 cited

Direct Measurement of the Branching Fraction for the Decay of and Determination of

BES Collaboration

The absolute branching fraction for the decay is determined using singly tagged sample from the data collected around 3.773 Ge…

hep-ex2004★ 5 cited

First observations of and decays to four-body final states

M. Ablikim

, , and decays to and , as well as decay to are presented. The branching fractions of these…

nucl-ex2004★ 638 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au collisions at sqrtsNN = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

The results from the STAR Collaboration on directed flow (v_1), elliptic flow (v_2), and the fourth harmonic (v_4) in the anisotropic azimuthal distribution of particles from Au+Au…

hep-ex2004★ 3 cited

First Measurement of the Branching Ratio of

BES Collaboration, M. Ablikim

Using 58 million events taken with the BES II detector at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider, a new decay mode is obser…

hep-ex2004★ 10 cited

Observation of in Decays

BES Collaboration, M. Ablikim

signals from decays are observed for the first time using a data sample of 14 million events accumulated at the BES II detect…