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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-ph2011★ 55 cited

Dihadron momentum imbalance and correlations in d+Au collisions

Zhong-Bo Kang, Ivan Vitev, Hongxi Xing

We calculate in perturbative QCD the transverse momentum imbalance of dijet and dihadron production in high energy p+A (d+A) collisions. We evaluate the effect of both initial- and…

hep-ex2011★ 24 cited

Measurement of the and Production Cross Sections at Mid-rapidity in Proton-Proton Collisions at = 500 GeV

STAR Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal +346

We report measurements of the charge-separated and production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions a…

hep-ex2011★ 95 cited

Spin-Parity Analysis of ppbar Mass Threshold Structure in J/psi and psi' Radiative Decays

BESIII Collaboration

A partial wave analysis of the mass-threshold enhancement in the reaction is used to determine: its quantum numbers to be ; i…

nucl-ex2011★ 51 cited

Energy and system-size dependence of two- and four-particle measurements in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and their implications on flow fluctuations and nonflow

The STAR Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal +344

We present STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropy by means of the two- and four-particle cumulants ( and ) for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at center of…

nucl-ex2011★ 39 cited

Directed Flow of Identified Particles in Au + Au Collisions at $\sqrtsNN = 200$ GeV at RHIC

the STAR Collaboration

STAR's measurements of directed flow () around midrapidity for , K, K, and in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrtsNN = 200$ GeV are presented. A…

hep-ph2011★ 7 cited

Revisiting B_s\toμ^+μ^- and B\to K^{(*)}μ^+μ^- decays in the MSSM with and without R-parity

Ru-Min Wang, Yuan-Guo Xu, Yi-Long Wang +1

The rare decays B_s -> μ^+μ^- and B -> K^{(*)}μ^+μ^- are sensitive to new particles and couplings via their interferences with the standard model contributions. Recently, the upper…

hep-ph2011★ 17 cited

Anomalous coupling effects in rare B- and K-meson decays

Xin-Qiang Li, Ya-Dong Yang, Xing-Bo Yuan

As a top-factory, the LHC is performing a direct study of top-quark anomalous FCNC couplings, which are, however, correlated closely with the rare B- and K-meson decays. In this pa…

nucl-ex2011★ 52 cited

Light vector meson production in pp collisions at = 7 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

The ALICE experiment has measured low-mass dimuon production in pp collisions at TeV in the dimuon rapidity region 2.5<y<4. The observed dimuon mass spectrum is desc…

hep-ex2011★ 59 cited

Underlying Event measurements in pp collisions at = 0.9 and 7 TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC

ALICE collaboration

We present measurements of Underlying Event observables in pp collisions at = 0.9 and 7 TeV. The analysis is performed as a function of the highest charged-particle tran…

quant-ph2011★ 32 cited

First-order coherence versus entanglement in a nano-mechanical cavity

Li-hui Sun, Gao-xiang Li, Zbigniew Ficek

The coherence and correlation properties of effective bosonic modes of a nano-mechanical cavity composed of an oscillating mirror and containing an optical lattice of regularly tra…

nucl-th2011★ 19 cited

Local Multiplicity Fluctuations as a Signature of Critical Hadronization at LHC

Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang

In central Pb-Pb collisions at LHC the multiplicity of particles produced is so high that it should become feasible to examine the nature of transition from the deconfined quark-gl…

nucl-ex2011★ 12 cited

Search for the QCD Critical Point by Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

Xiaofeng Luo

Higher moments of net-proton multiplicity distributions are applied to search for the QCD critical point. In this paper, we will present measurements for kurtosis (), skewness (…

hep-ex2011★ 16 cited

Higher-order multipole amplitude measurement in

BESIII Collaboration

Using events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII storage ring, the higher-order multipole amplitudes in the radiative transition $ψ(2S)\toγχ_{c…

physics.data-an2011★ 18 cited

Universal scaling in sports ranking

Weibing Deng, Wei Li, Xu Cai +2

Ranking is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the human society. By clicking the web pages of Forbes, you may find all kinds of rankings, such as world's most powerful people, world's rich…

hep-ph2011★ 35 cited

Parton Energy Loss and Modified Beam Quark Distribution Functions in Drell-Yan Process in p+A Collisions

Hongxi Xing, Yun Guo, Enke Wang +1

Within the framework of generalized collinear factorization in perturbative QCD (pQCD), we study the effect of initial multiple parton scattering and induced parton energy loss in…

nucl-th2011★ 4 cited

Study of triangular flow in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions with a multiphase transport model

Kai Xiao, Na Li, Shusu Shi +1

We studied the relation between the initial geometry anisotropy and the anisotropic flow in a multiphase transport model (AMPT) for both Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}…

math.DG2011

On the Perelman's reduced entropy and Ricci flat manifolds with maximal volume growth

Liang Cheng, Anqiang Zhu

In this paper, we study the Ricci flat manifolds with maximal volume growth using Perelman's reduced volume of Ricci flow. We show that if is an noncompact complete Ricci…

math.AP2011★ 3 cited

Blow-up criterions of strong solutions to 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations with vacuum

Huanyao Wen, Changjiang Zhu

In the paper, we establish a blow-up criterion in terms of the integrability of the density for strong solutions to the Cauchy problem of compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equa…

cs.CR2011

On -Variable Symmetric Boolean Functions with Maximum Algebraic Immunity

Hui Wang, Jie Peng, Yuan Li +1

Algebraic immunity of Boolean function is defined as the minimal degree of a nonzero such that or . Given a positive even integer , it is found that the…

hep-ex2011★ 36 cited

Search for a light exotic particle in J/psi radiative decays

BESIII Collaboration

Using a data sample containing 1.06x10^8 psi' events collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII electron-positron collider, we search for a light exotic particle X in the pro…

hep-ex2011★ 141 cited

J/ polarization in pp collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

We have studied J/psi production in pp collisions at TeV at the LHC through its muon pair decay. The polar and azimuthal angle distributions of the decay muons were me…

hep-ph2011★ 3 cited

The vacuum tunnelling and the crossover of deconfinement in Friedberg-Lee model

Song Shu, Jia-Rong Li

We have discussed the vacuum tunnelling in Friedberg-Lee model. The tunnelling coefficient is derived in the field configuration space by calculating the transition amplitude using…

nucl-th2011★ 3 cited

A Hydrodynamic and Transport Model for Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC and LHC Energies

Yu-Liang Yan, Yun Cheng, Dai-Mei Zhou +4

Combining the hydrodynamic model (Hydro code) and the transport model (PACIAE model), we present the Hydro-PACIAE hybrid model. We use the Hydro-PACIAE hybrid model to calculate Au…

math.AP2011

Convergence Rate of Zero Viscosity Limit on Large Amplitude Solution to a Conservation Laws Arising in Chemotaxis

Hongyun Peng, Lizhi Ruan, Changjiang Zhu

In this paper, we investigate large amplitude solutions to a system of conservation laws which is transformed, by a change of variable, from the well-known Keller-Segel model descr…