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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-ex2003★ 95 cited

Azimuthally sensitive Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_{NN}) = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present the results of a systematic study of the shape of the pion distribution in coordinate space at freeze-out in Au+Au collisions at RHIC using two-pion Hanbury Brown-Twiss…

math.GR2003

Metric properties of the lamplighter group as an automata group

Sean Cleary, Jennifer Taback

We examine the geometry of the Cayley graph of the lamplighter group with respect to the generating set rising from its interpretation as an automata group due to Grigorchuk and Zu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2003★ 9 cited

Electron transmission through a short interacting wire: 0.7 conductance anomaly

D. Schmeltzer, A. Saxena, A. R. Bishop +1

We investigate tunneling through a short interacting wire. We identify two temperature regimes (a) ( is the length of the short wire) an…

cond-mat.mes-hall2003★ 1 cited

Microwave Rectificatin of the Current at the Metal-Metal Junction for Dilute 2D Metals

Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

Within a quasiclassical transport theory for 2D electron system we analyze a recently observed effect of microwave rectification at the boundary between two 2D metals of different…

math.GR2003

On the palindromic and primitive widths of a free group

Valery Bardakov, Vladimir Shpilrain, Vladimir Tolstykh

Let G be a group and S a subset of G that generates G. For each x in G define the length l_S(x) of x relative to S to be the minimal k such that x is a product of k elements of S.…

nucl-ex2003★ 412 cited

Identified particle distributions in pp and Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

Transverse mass and rapidity distributions for charged pions, charged kaons, protons and antiprotons are reported for sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV pp and Au+Au collisions at RHIC. The transv…

nucl-ex2003★ 225 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy at RHIC: the first and fourth harmonics

STAR collaboration, J. Adams

We report the first observations of the first harmonic (directed flow, v_1), and the fourth harmonic (v_4), in the azimuthal distribution of particles with respect to the reaction…

hep-ex2003★ 263 cited

Cross Sections and Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Forward Neutral-Pion Production from Proton Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

Measurements of the production of forward high-energy pi0 mesons from transversely polarized proton collisions at \sqrt{s}=200 GeV are reported. The cross section is generally cons…

hep-th2003★ 52 cited

Quantum Hall effect on , edge states and fuzzy

V. P. Nair, S. Randjbar-Daemi

We analyze the Landau problem and quantum Hall effect on taking a constant background field proportional to the spin connection on . The effective strength of the field…

math.GR2003

Dead end words in lamplighter groups and other wreath products

Sean Cleary, Jennifer Taback

We explore the geometry of the Cayley graphs of the lamplighter groups and a wide range of wreath products. We show that these groups have dead end elements of arbitrary depth with…

hep-th2003★ 14 cited

Some topological issues for ferromagnets and fluids

V. P. Nair, Rashmi Ray

We analyze the canonical structure of a continuum model of ferromagnets and clarify known difficulties in defining a momentum density. The moments of the momentum density correspon…

hep-th2003★ 1 cited

Yang-Mills theory, 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions

V. P. Nair

I review the analysis of (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills ( theory via the use of gauge-invariant matrix variables. The vacuum wavefunction, string tension, the propagator m…

cond-mat.str-el2003★ 412 cited

Metal-insulator transition in two-dimensional electron systems

S. V. Kravchenko, M. P. Sarachik

The interplay between strong Coulomb interactions and randomness has been a long-standing problem in condensed matter physics. According to the scaling theory of localization, in t…

nucl-ex2003★ 81 cited

Event-wise mean p_t fluctuations in Au-Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We present the first large-acceptance measurement of event-wise mean transverse momentum mean p_t fluctuations for Au-Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-momentum collision…

math.GR2003★ 1 cited

Dynamics of free group automorphisms

Peter Brinkmann

We present a coarse convexity result for the dynamics of free group automorphisms: Given an automorphism of a finitely generated free group , we show that for all a…

nucl-ex2003★ 176 cited

Multi-Strange Baryon Production in Au-Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV

J. Adams

The transverse mass spectra and mid-rapidity yields for s and s plus their anti-particles are presented. The 10% most central collision yields suggest that the amount of mult…

cond-mat.stat-mech2003★ 35 cited

Fractal fronts in fractal fractures: large and small-scale structure

G. Drazer, H. Auradou, J. Koplik +1

The evolution and spatial structure of displacement fronts in fractures with self-affine rough walls are studied by numerical simulations. The fractures are open and the two faces…

cond-mat.soft2003★ 41 cited

Microstructure and velocity fluctuations in sheared suspensions

G. Drazer, J. Koplik, B. Khusid +1

The velocity fluctuations present in macroscopically homogeneous suspensions of neutrally buoyant, non-Brownian spheres undergoing simple shear flow, and their dependence on the mi…

nucl-ex2003★ 112 cited

Multiplicity fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at GeV

J. Adams

We present the results of charged particle fluctuations measurements in Au + Au collisions at GeV using the STAR detector. Dynamical fluctuations measurements a…

nucl-ex2003★ 37 cited

Pion-Kaon correlations in central Au+Au collisions at GeV

J. Adams

Pion-kaon correlation functions are constructed from central Au+Au data taken at GeV. The results suggest that pions and kaons are not emitted at the same ave…

nucl-ex2003★ 154 cited

rho^0 Production and Possible Modification in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

J. Adams

We report results on rho(770)^0 -> pi+pi- production at midrapidity in p+p and peripheral Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. This is the first direct measurement of rho(770)…

hep-th2003★ 84 cited

The effective action for edge states in higher dimensional quantum Hall systems

Dimitra Karabali, V. P. Nair

We show that the effective action for the edge excitations of a quantum Hall droplet of fermions in higher dimensions is generically given by a chiral bosonic action. We explicitly…

math.GR2003

A description of auto-fixed subgroups in a free group

A. Martino, E. Ventura

Let be a finitely generated free group. By using Bestvina-Handel theory, as well as some further improvements, the eigengroups of a given automorphism of (and its fixed sub…

nucl-ex2003★ 22 cited

Rapidity and Centrality Dependence of Proton and Anti-proton Production from Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130GeV

J. Adams

We report on the rapidity and centrality dependence of proton and anti-proton transverse mass distributions from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130GeV as measured by the STAR expe…