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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-th2005★ 3 cited

Hadron Production in the Trans-fragmentation Region in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

We study the production of hadrons in Au+Au collisions in the region , which we refer to as the trans-fragmentation region (TFR), since it corresponds roughly to $η'>0…

hep-th2005★ 335 cited

Hawking radiation as tunneling from the Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes

Qing-Quan Jiang, Shuang-Qing Wu, Xu Cai

Recent work, which treats the Hawking radiation as a semi-classical tunneling process at the horizon of the Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom spacetimes, indicates that the exac…

hep-ph2005★ 25 cited

Generalized structure of hadron-quark vertex function in Bethe-Salpeter framework: Applications to leptonic decays of V-mesons

Shashank Bhatnagar, Shi-Yuan Li

We employ the framework of Bethe-Salpeter equation under Covariant Instantaneous Ansatz (CIA) to study the leptonic decays of vector mesons. The structure of hadron-quark vertex fu…

hep-ex2005★ 8 cited

Experimental study of decays to $\K^+ K^- π^+ π^- π^0$ final states

M. Ablikim, BES Collaboration

final states are studied using a sample of decays collected with the Beijing Spectrometer (BESII) at the Beijing Electron-Position Collider…

nucl-ex2005★ 46 cited

Multiplicity and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Particles and Photons at Forward Pseudorapidity in Au + Au Collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present the centrality dependent measurement of multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles and photons in Au + Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 GeV. Th…

nucl-th2005

Effect of gauge-field fluctuations on the phase transition between normal and color-superconducting quark matter

Jorge L. Noronha, Hai-cang Ren, Ioannis Giannakis +2

Type-I color superconductors display a first-order phase transition due to thermal gauge-field fluctuations. We numerically evaluated the critical temperature of the first-order ph…

nucl-ex2005★ 26 cited

Strangelet Search in AuAu Collisions at 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We have searched for strangelets in a triggered sample of 61 million central (top 4%) Au+Au collisions at $\sNN = 200 $GeV near beam rapidities at the STAR detector. We have sensit…

nucl-ex2005★ 67 cited

Proton-lambda correlations in central Au+Au collisions at sqrt (s_NN)=200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We report on p-Lambda, p-Lambda bar, p bar-Lambda and p bar-Lambda bar correlation functions constructed in central Au-Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200GeV by the STAR experiment at…

hep-th2005★ 153 cited

Hawking radiation of charged particles as tunneling from Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black holes with a global monopole

Qing-Quan Jiang, Shuang-Qing Wu

Applying Parikh's semi-classical tunneling method, we consider Hawking radiation of the charged massive particles as a tunneling process from the Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black…

hep-ex2005★ 11 cited

Measurements of decays into , , and

M. Ablikim

Based on events collected with BESII at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC), the decay branching fractions of , , and are measur…

nucl-ex2005★ 67 cited

Directed flow in Au+Au collisions at =62.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We present the directed flow () measured in Au+Au collisions at = 62.4 GeV in the mid-pseudorapidity region and in the forward pseudorapidity regi…

hep-ph2005★ 23 cited

The puzzles in and decays: possible implications for R-parity violating supersymmetry

Ya-Dong Yang, Rumin Wang, G. R. Lu

Recent experiments suggest that certain data of decays are inconsistent with the standard model expectations. We try to explain the discrepancies with R-parity violat…

hep-th2005★ 6 cited

Kinetics calculation on the shear viscosity in hot QED at finite density

Hui Liu, Defu Hou, Jiarong Li

The shear viscosity of QED plasma at finite temperature and density is calculated by solving Boltzmann equation with variational approach. The result shows the small chemical poten…

cond-mat.stat-mech2005★ 1 cited

Detrended fluctuation analysis on the correlations of complex networks under attack and repair strategy

L. P. Chi, C. B. Yang, K. Ma +1

We analyze the correlation properties of the Erdos-Renyi random graph (RG) and the Barabasi-Albert scale-free network (SF) under the attack and repair strategy with detrended fluct…

hep-ph2005★ 47 cited

A Neutral Two Flavor Loff Color Superconductor

Ioannis Giannakis, De-fu Hou, Hai-Cang Ren

In this paper we construct analytically a LOFF color superconducting state that is both color and charge neutral using the weak coupling approximation. We demonstrate that this sta…

hep-ex2005★ 65 cited

Partial Wave Analysis of

M. Ablikim, BES Collaboration

A partial wave analysis of in decay is presented using a sample of 14 million events accumulated by the BES II detector. The data…

hep-ex2005★ 9 cited

Experimental study of \etac decays into vector-vector final states

M. Ablikim

Using 58 million J/ψevents accumulated with the BES II detector, branching fractions for the η_{c} ->VV decays, η_{c} -> ρρ, η_{c} -> K^{*}{\bar K}^{*}, η_{c} -> ωω, and η_{c} -> ϕ…

hep-ph2005★ 27 cited

Running coupling constant from lattice data and bulk viscosity of strange quark matter

Zheng Xiaoping, Kang Miao, Liu Xuewen +1

We study the bulk viscosity of strange quark matter (SQM) in a quasiparticle model at finite chemical potential by extrapolating the previous quasiparticle model of finite temperat…

astro-ph2005★ 1 cited

Non-leptonic Weak Interaction in Magnetized Quark matter

Zheng Xiaoping, Zhou Xia, Liu Xuewen

We investigated the non-leptonic weak interaction in magnetic field. We discussed an improvement of previous method to analytical work out the rate for weak field case.Our result e…

hep-ph2005★ 4 cited

Micro-canonical pentaquark production in $\ee$ annihilations

Fu-Ming Liu, Klaus Werner

The existence of pentaquarks, namely baryonic states made up of four quarks and one antiquark, became questionable, because the candidates, i.e. the peak, are seen in certain…

hep-ex2005★ 19 cited

Search for psi(3770)\raρπat the BESII detector at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider

The BES Collaboration, M. Ablikim

Non- decay $\psppto \rhopi$ is searched for using a data sample of taken at the center-of-mass energy of 3.773 GeV by the BESII detector at the BE…

hep-ph2005★ 463 cited

Parton Ladder Splitting and the Rapidity Dependence of Transverse Momentum Spectra in Deuteron-Gold Collisions at RHIC

Klaus Werner, Fu-Ming Liu, Tanguy Pierog

We present a phenomenological approach (EPOS), based on the parton model, but going much beyond, and try to understand proton-proton and deuteron-gold collisions, in particular the…

hep-ex2005★ 15 cited

Obervation of χ_{cJ}--> omega omega decays

BES Collaboration, M. Ablikim

Decays of $χ_{c0,2}\ar\ww$ are observed for the first time using a sample of events collected with the BESII detector. The branching ratios are determined…

nucl-th2005★ 17 cited

Modified Fragmentation Function from Quark Recombination

Abhijit Majumder, Enke Wang, Xin-Nian Wang

Within the framework of the constituent quark model, it is shown that the single hadron fragmentation function of a parton can be expressed as a convolution of shower diquark or tr…