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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-ph2007★ 5 cited

A Systematic Study on Direct Photon Production from Central Heavy Ion Collisions

Fu-Ming Liu, Klaus Werner

We investigate the production of direct photons in central Au-Au collisions at the relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at 200 GeV per nucleon, considering all possible sources.…

hep-ex2007★ 4 cited

Direct Measurements of the Branching Fractions for Inclusive and Inclusive Semileptonic Decays of and Mesons

BES Collaboration

With singly-tagged samples selected from the data collected at and around 3.773 GeV with the BESII detector at the BEPC collider, we have measured the branching fractions…

hep-th2007★ 42 cited

Examining the crossover from hadronic to partonic phase in QCD

Xu Mingmei, Yu Meiling, Liu Lianshou

It is argued that, due to the existence of two vacua -- perturbative and physical -- in QCD, the mechanism for the crossover from hadronic to partonic phase is hard to construct. T…

nucl-ex2007★ 90 cited

A Model of Nuclear Recoil Scintillation Efficiency in Noble Liquids

D. -M. Mei, Z. -B. Yin, L. C. Stonehill +1

Scintillation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in noble liquids plays a crucial role in interpreting results from some direct searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Partic…

hep-ex2007★ 135 cited

Observation of Y(2175) in

BES Collaboration, M. Ablikim

The decays of are analyzed using a sample of events collected with the BESII detector at the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2007★ 11 cited

The virial equation of state for unitary fermion thermodynamics with non-Gaussian correlations

Ji-sheng Chen, Jia-rong Li, Yan-ping Wang +1

We study the roles of the dynamical high order perturbation and statistically non-linear infrared fluctuation/correlation in the virial equation of state for the Fermi gas in the u…

hep-ph2007★ 14 cited

Effect of heavy-quark energy loss on the muon differential production cross section in Pb-Pb collisions at \sqrtsNN=5.5 TeV

Z. Conesa del Valle, A. Dainese, H. -T. Ding +2

We study the nuclear modification factors RAA and RCP of the high transverse momentum 5<pt<60 GeV/c distribution of muons in Pb--Pb collisions at LHC energies. We consider two pseu…

hep-ph2007★ 7 cited

Angular Momentum Mixing in a Non-spherical Color Superconductor

Bo Feng, Defu Hou, Hai-cang Ren

We study the angular momentum mixing effects in the color superconductor with non-spherical pairing. We first clarify the concept of the angular momentum mixing with a toy model fo…

hep-ph2007★ 318 cited

Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC - Last Call for Predictions

S. Abreu, S. V. Akkelin, J. Alam +164

This writeup is a compilation of the predictions for the forthcoming Heavy Ion Program at the Large Hadron Collider, as presented at the CERN Theory Institute 'Heavy Ion Collisions…

hep-ex2007★ 4 cited

Search for the decays and

BES Collaboration

Using 58 million events collected with the Beijing Spectrometer (BESII) at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider, the decays and are searched for,…

hep-ph2007★ 32 cited

The rare decays , and in the R-parity violating supersymmetry

Jian-Jun Wang, Ru-Min Wang, Yuan-Guo Xu +1

We study the rare decays , and in the R-parity violating supersymmetric standard…

hep-ph2007★ 138 cited

The heavy-quark potential in an anisotropic plasma

Adrian Dumitru, Yun Guo, Michael Strickland

We determine the hard-loop resummed propagator in an anisotropic QCD plasma in general covariant gauges and define a potential between heavy quarks from the Fourier transform of it…

hep-ph2007★ 24 cited

Heavy Quarkonium States with the Holographic Potential

Defu Hou, Hai-cang Ren

The quarkonium states in a quark-gluon plasma is examined with the heavy quark potential implied by the holographic principle. Both the vanila AdS-Schwarzschild metric and the one…

hep-ex2007★ 11 cited

Experimental studies of the , and final states produced in annihilation at 3.773 and 3.650 GeV

The BES Collaboration

We report measurements of the observed cross sections for , , , , , , $K^{*+}K^-π^+π^-+c…

hep-ex2007★ 16 cited

Measurements of the observed cross sections for exclusive light hadron production in e^+e^- annihilation at \sqrt{s}= 3.773 and 3.650 GeV

The BES Collaboration

By analyzing the data sets of 17.3 pb taken at GeV and 6.5 pb taken at GeV with the BESII detector at the BEPC collider, we have mea…

hep-ex2007★ 42 cited

Study of Jψdecaying into ωp \bar p

BES Collaboration

The decay is studied using a event sample accumulated with the BES II detector at the Beijing electron-positron collider. The decay branc…

hep-ex2007★ 7 cited

First observation of J/ψand ψ(2S) decaying to n K^0_S\barΛ+c.c

BES Collaboration

The decays of $\jpsi$ and $\psip$ to are observed and measured for the first time, and the perturbative QCD ``12%'' rule is tested, based on $5.8 \times 10^7…

hep-ph2007★ 56 cited

Medium-evolved fragmentation functions

N. Armesto, L. Cunqueiro, C. A. Salgado +1

Medium-induced gluon radiation is usually identified as the dominant dynamical mechanism underling the {\it jet quenching} phenomenon observed in heavy-ion collisions. In its actua…

nucl-th2007★ 11 cited

Theoretical analysis for the apparent discrepancy between pbarp and pp data in charged particle forward-backward multiplicity correlations

Yu-Liang Yan, Bao-Guo Dong, Dai-Mei Zhou +2

The strength of charged particle forward-backward multiplicity correlation in pbar+p and p+p collisions at s^1/2 = 200 GeV is studied by PYTHIA 6.4 and compared to the UA5 and STAR…

hep-ex2007★ 52 cited

Search for the Invisible Decay of $\jpsi$ in

M. Ablikim, J. Z. Bai

Using 14.0 million \jpsi\psipto\jpsi$ peak i…

hep-ex2007★ 2 cited

Search for the C-parity violating process J/psi->gamma gamma via psi(2S)->pi+pi- J/psi

M. Ablikim, J. Z. Bai

Using 14.0\times 10^6 ψ(2S) events collected with the BES-II detector, the C-parity violating process J/psi->gamma gamma via psi(2S)->pi+pi- J/psi is studied. We determine a new up…

astro-ph2007★ 4 cited

Thermal Evolution of Strange Stars

Zhou Xia, Wang Lingzhi, Zhou Aizhi

We investigated the thermal evolution of rotating strange stars with the deconfinement heating due to magnetic braking. We consider the stars consisting of either normal quark matt…

hep-th2007★ 59 cited

Covariant anomaly and Hawking radiation from the modified black hole in the rainbow gravity theory

Jun-Jin Peng, Shuang-Qing Wu

Recently, Banerjee and Kulkarni (R. Banerjee, S. Kulkarni, arXiv:0707.2449 [hep-th]) suggested that it is conceptually clean and economical to use only the covariant anomaly to der…

hep-th2007★ 72 cited

General Non-extremal Rotating Charged Godel Black Holes in Minimal Five-Dimensional Gauged Supergravity

Shuang-Qing Wu

We present the general exact solutions for non-extremal rotating charged black holes in the Godel universe of five-dimensional minimal supergravity theory. They are uniquely charac…