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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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Parton rescattering effect on particle production in ultra-relativistic p+p collisions

Yu-Liang Yan, Bao-Guo Dong, Dai-Mei Zhou +3

The parton rescattering effect on the charged particle production in ultra-relativistic p+p collisions is studied by the parton and hadron cascade model, PACIAE, based on PYTHIA. W…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 7 cited

Radiative viscosity of neutron stars

Shu-Hua Yang, Xiao-Ping Zheng, Chun-Mei Pi

We study non-linear effects of radiative viscosity of matter in neutron stars for both direct Urca process and modified Urca process, and find that non-linear effects will de…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 8 cited

The role of -mode damping in the thermal evolution of neutron stars

Shu-Hua Yang, Xiao-Ping Zheng, Chun-Mei Pi +1

The thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs) is investigated by coupling with the evolution of -mode instability that is described by a second order model.The heating e…

hep-ph2009★ 32 cited

The Single Flavor Color Superconductivity in a Magnetic Field

Bo Feng, Defu Hou, Hai-cang Ren +1

We investigate the single flavor color superconductivity in a magnetic field. Because of the absence of the electromagnetic Meissner effect, forming a nonspherical CSC phase, polar…

physics.ins-det2009★ 23 cited

Performance of prototypes for the ALICE electromagnetic calorimeter

The ALICE EMCal group

The performance of prototypes for the ALICE electromagnetic sampling calorimeter has been studied in test beam measurements at FNAL and CERN. A array of final design mod…

nucl-ex2009★ 65 cited

Studying Parton Energy Loss in Heavy-Ion Collisions via Direct-Photon and Charged-Particle Azimuthal Correlations

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Charged-particle spectra associated with direct photon () and are measured in + and Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energy GeV with…

nucl-ex2009★ 19 cited

Prediction of Underground Argon Content for Dark Matter Experiments

D. -M. Mei, Z. -B. Yin, J. Spaans +4

In this paper, we demonstrate the use of physical models to evaluate the production of Ar and Ar underground. Considering both cosmogenic Ar production and rad…

hep-ex2009★ 91 cited

Three-particle coincidence of the long range pseudorapidity correlation in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report the first three-particle coincidence measurement in pseudorapidity () between a high transverse momentum () trigger particle and two lower asso…

hep-ex2009★ 49 cited

Inclusive pi^0, eta, and direct photon production at high transverse momentum in p+p and d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report a measurement of high-p_T inclusive pi^0, eta, and direct photon production in p+p and d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV at midrapidity (0 < eta < 1). Photons from…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 9 cited

Neutrino Emissivity of Non-equilibrium beta processes With Nucleon Superfluidity

Chun-Mei Pi, Xiao-Ping Zheng, Shu-Hua Yang

We investigate the influence of nucleon superfluidity on the neutrino emissivity of non-equilibrium beta processes. Calculations are performed of the reduction factors for direct a…

hep-th2009★ 51 cited

Extremal Kerr/CFT correspondence of five-dimensional rotating (charged) black holes with squashed horizons

Jun-Jin Peng, Shuang-Qing Wu

A new holographic duality named Kerr/CFT correspondence was recently proposed to derive the statistical entropy of four-dimensional extremal Kerr black holes via identifying the qu…

physics.ins-det2009★ 1.2k cited

Design and Construction of the BESIII Detector

The BESIII Collaboration

This paper will discuss the design and construction of BESIII, which is designed to study physics in the tau-charm energy region utilizing the new high luminosity BEPCII double rin…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 17 cited

High-energy gamma-ray afterglows from low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts

Hao-Ning He, Xiang-Yu Wang, Yun-Wei Yu +1

The observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) such as 980425, 031203 and 060218, with luminosities much lower than those of other classic bursts, lead to the definition of a new clas…

nucl-ex2009★ 20 cited

Identified high- spectra in Cu+Cu collisions at =200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report new results on identified (anti)proton and charged pion spectra at large transverse momenta (3<<10 GeV/c) from Cu+Cu collisions at =200 GeV using th…

hep-ex2009★ 50 cited

Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry and cross section for inclusive neutral pion production at midrapidity in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report a measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry A_LL and the differential cross section for inclusive Pi0 production at midrapidity in polarized proton collisions…

nucl-th2009★ 8 cited

Mini-jet thermalization and diffusion of transverse momentum correlation in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Long-gang Pang, Qun Wang, Xin-Nian Wang +1

Transverse momentum correlation in azimuthal angle of produced hadrons due to mini-jets are studied first within the HIJING Monte Carlo model in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. J…

hep-ex2009★ 147 cited

First proton-proton collisions at the LHC as observed with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged particle pseudorapidity density at = 900 GeV

ALICE Collaboration

On 23rd November 2009, during the early commissioning of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), two counter-rotating proton bunches were circulated for the first time concurrently i…

hep-ex2009★ 5 cited

Measurement of the asymmetry parameter for the decay

BES collaboration

Based on a sample of decays collected with the BESII detector at the BEPC, the decay parameter for is measured using abo…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 12 cited

The newly born magnetars powering gamma-ray burst internal-plateau emission: are there strange stars?

Yun-Wei Yu, Xiao-Feng Cao, Xiao-Ping Zheng

The internal-plateau X-ray emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) indicates that a newly born magnetar could be the central object of some GRBs. The observed luminosity and duration o…

nucl-th2009★ 7 cited

Longitudinal boost-invariance of charge balance function in hadron-hadron and nucleus-nucleus collisions

Na LI Zhiming LI Yuanfang WU

Using Monte Carlo generators of the PYTHIA model for hadron-hadron collisions and a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model for nucleus-nucleus collisions, the longitudinal boost-invari…

hep-ex2009★ 29 cited

Longitudinal Spin Transfer to and Hyperons in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at = 200 GeV

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

The longitudinal spin transfer, , from high energy polarized protons to and hyperons has been measured for the first time in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{…

hep-ph2009★ 1 cited

Jet Quenching with Parton evolution

Luan Cheng, Enke Wang

We report the evolution effects on jet energy loss with detailed balance. The initial conditions and parton evolution based on perturbative QCD in the chemical non-equilibrated med…

nucl-th2009★ 11 cited

Energy Dependence of Directed Flow in Au+Au Collisions from a Multi-phase Transport Model

J. Y. Chen, J. X. Zuo, X. Z. Cai +3

The directed flow of charged hadron and identified particles has been studied in the framework of a multi-phase transport (AMPT) model, for Au+Au collisions at $\sq…

nucl-ex2009★ 4 cited

Rapidity losses in heavy-ion collisions from AGS to RHIC energies

F. C. Zhou, Z. B. Yin, D. C. Zhou

We study the rapidity losses in central heavy-ion collisions from AGS to RHIC energies with the mean rapidity determined from the projectile net-baryon distribution after collision…