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nucl-ex2013★ 48 cited

Classical-Nova Contribution to the Milky Way's Al Abundance: Exit Channel of the Key Al()Si Resonance

M. B. Bennett, C. Wrede, K. A. Chipps +21

Classical novae are expected to contribute to the 1809-keV Galactic -ray emission by producing its precursor Al, but the yield depends on the thermonuclear rate of the un…

nucl-ex2013★ 40 cited

Reactions of a Be-10 beam on proton and deuteron targets

K. T. Schmitt, K. L. Jones, S. Ahn +30

The extraction of detailed nuclear structure information from transfer reactions requires reliable, well-normalized data as well as optical potentials and a theoretical framework d…

nucl-ex2013★ 16 cited

Heavy-flavor electron-muon correlations in and +Au collisions at = 200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +446

We report pair yield from charm decay measured between midrapidity electrons ( and GeV/) and forward rapidity muons ( and …

nucl-ex2013★ 134 cited

Measurement of charged jet suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

A measurement of the transverse momentum spectra of jets in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV is reported. Jets are reconstructed from charged particles using the an…

nucl-ex2013★ 22 cited

System-size dependence of open-heavy-flavor production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at =200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +377

The PHENIX Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured open heavy flavor production in CuCu collisions at =200 GeV through the measuremen…

nucl-ex2013★ 98 cited

Centrality categorization for R_{p(d)+A} in high-energy collisions

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +374

High-energy proton- and deuteron-nucleus collisions provide an excellent tool for studying a wide array of physics effects, including modifications of parton distribution functions…

nucl-ex2013★ 60 cited

Cold-nuclear-matter effects on heavy-quark production at forward and backward rapidity in d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +421

The PHENIX experiment has measured open heavy-flavor production via semileptonic decay muons over the transverse momentum range 1 < pT < 6 GeV/c at forward and backward rapidity (1…

nucl-ex2013★ 26 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy of pi^0 and eta mesons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +381

The azimuthal anisotropy coefficients v_2 and v_4 of pi^0 and eta mesons are measured in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV, as a function of transverse momentum p_T (1-14 GeV/…

nucl-ex2013★ 272 cited

Improved Determination of the Neutron Lifetime

A. T. Yue, M. S. Dewey, D. M. Gilliam +5

The most precise determination of the neutron lifetime using the beam method was completed in 2005 and reported a result of $τ_n = (886.3 \pm 1.2 [\textrm{stat}] \pm 3.2 [\textrm{s…

nucl-ex2013★ 94 cited

J/ production and nuclear effects in p-Pb collisions at TeV

ALICE Collaboration

Inclusive J/ production has been studied with the ALICE detector in p-Pb collisions at the nucleon-nucleon center of mass energy = 5.02 TeV at the CERN LHC.…

nucl-ex2013★ 437 cited

Multiplicity Dependence of Pion, Kaon, Proton and Lambda Production in p-Pb Collisions at = 5.02 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

In this Letter, comprehensive results on , K, K, p, , and production at mid-rapidity () in p-Pb colli…

nucl-ex2013★ 320 cited

K and production in Pb-Pb collisions at = 2.76 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

The ALICE measurement of K and production at mid-rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV is presented. The transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}…

nucl-ex2013★ 324 cited

Long-range angular correlations of , K and p in p-Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

Angular correlations between unidentified charged trigger particles and various species of charged associated particles (unidentified particles, pions, kaons, protons and antiproto…

nucl-ex2013★ 40 cited

Multiplicity dependence of two-particle azimuthal correlations in pp collisions at the LHC

ALICE Collaboration

We present the measurements of particle pair yields per trigger particle obtained from di-hadron azimuthal correlations in pp collisions at , , and TeV re…

nucl-ex2013★ 118 cited

Energy Dependence of the Transverse Momentum Distributions of Charged Particles in pp Collisions Measured by ALICE

ALICE Collaboration

Differential cross sections of charged particles in inelastic pp collisions as a function of have been measured at 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV at the LHC. The $p_{\…

nucl-ex2013★ 23 cited

Sub-barrier fusion enhancement with radioactive 134Te

Z. Kohley, J. F. Liang, D. Shapira +6

The fusion cross sections of radioactive Te + Ca were measured at energies above and below the Coulomb barrier. The evaporation residues produced in the reaction wer…

nucl-ex2013★ 78 cited

Directed flow of charged particles at mid-rapidity relative to the spectator plane in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\rm{NN}}$=2.76 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

The directed flow of charged particles at mid-rapidity is measured in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\rm{NN}}=2.76$ TeV relative to the collision symmetry plane defined by the specta…

nucl-ex2013★ 107 cited

Nuclear modification of psi^prime, chi_c and J/psi production in d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +373

We present results for three charmonia states (psi^prime, chi_c and J/psi) in d+Au collisions at |y|<0.35 and sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. We find that the modification of the psi^prime yie…

nucl-ex2013★ 207 cited

D meson elliptic flow in non-central Pb-Pb collisions at = 2.76TeV

ALICE Collaboration

Azimuthally anisotropic distributions of D, D and D mesons were studied in the central rapidity region () in Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy $\s…

nucl-ex2013★ 55 cited

Mid-rapidity anti-baryon to baryon ratios in pp collisions at = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV measured by ALICE

ALICE Collaboration

The ratios of yields of anti-baryons to baryons probes the mechanisms of baryon-number transport. Results for , , $^{+}/{\rm Ξ}^…

nucl-ex2013★ 266 cited

Charmonium and pair photoproduction at mid-rapidity in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at =2.76 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

The ALICE Collaboration at the LHC has measured the J/ and photoproduction at mid-rapidity in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at TeV. The char…

nucl-ex2013★ 148 cited

Spectra and ratios of identified particles in Au+Au and d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

A. Adare, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala +413

The transverse momentum (p_T) spectra and ratios of identified charged hadrons (π^+/-, K^+/-, p, p^bar) produced in sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au+Au and d+Au collisions are reported in fiv…

nucl-ex2013★ 57 cited

Neutron capture cross section of unstable 63Ni: implications for stellar nucleosynthesis

C. Lederer, C. Massimi, S. Altstadt +102

The Ni() cross section has been measured for the first time at the neutron time-of-flight facility n\_TOF at CERN from thermal neutron energies up to 200 keV. In total…

nucl-ex2013★ 205 cited

Centrality dependence of the pseudorapidity density distribution for charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at = 2.76 TeV

ALICE Collaboration

We present the first wide-range measurement of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density distribution, for different centralities (the 0-5%, 5-10%, 10-20%, and 20-30% most centra…