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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-ex2017★ 22 cited

Search for three-nucleon short-range correlations in light nuclei

Z. Ye, P. Solvignon, D. Nguyen +100

We present new data probing short-range correlations (SRCs) in nuclei through the measurement of electron scattering off high-momentum nucleons in nuclei. The inclusive 4He/3He cro…

nucl-ex2017★ 36 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy in Cu+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +345

The azimuthal anisotropic flow of identified and unidentified charged particles has been systematically studied in Cu+Au collisions at = 200 GeV for harmonics $n…

nucl-ex2017★ 69 cited

Measurement of hyper triton lifetime in Au + Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

The STAR Collaboration

A precise measurement of the hypertriton lifetime is presented. In this letter, the mesonic decay modes and $\mathrm{{^3_Λ}H \rightarrow d…

nucl-ex2017★ 132 cited

Collision Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Kaon Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +343

Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number, charge, and strangeness are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heav…

nucl-ex2017★ 62 cited

Beam Energy Dependence of Jet-Quenching Effects in Au+Au Collisions at = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +338

We report measurements of the nuclear modification factor, , for charged hadrons as well as identified , , and for Au+Au col…

nucl-ex2017★ 24 cited

First measurement of the polarization observable and helicity-dependent cross sections in single photoproduction from quasi-free nucleons

M. Dieterle, L. Witthauer, F. Cividini +84

The double-polarization observable and the helicity-dependent cross sections and have been measured for the first time for single photoproduction fr…

nucl-ex2017★ 24 cited

Helicity-dependent cross sections and double-polarization observable E in eta photoproduction from quasi-free protons and neutrons

L. Witthauer, M. Dieterle, S. Abt +84

Precise helicity-dependent cross sections and the double-polarization observable were measured for photoproduction from quasi-free protons and neutrons bound in the deutero…

nucl-ex2017★ 11 cited

Extraction of the Neutron Electric Form Factor from Measurements of Inclusive Double Spin Asymmetries

V. Sulkosky, G. Jin, E. Long +89

Measurements of the neutron charge form factor, , are challenging due to the fact that the neutron has no net charge. In addition, measurements of the neutron…

nucl-ex2017★ 66 cited

Coherent diffractive photoproduction of mesons on gold nuclei at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +342

The STAR Collaboration reports on the photoproduction of pairs in gold-gold collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV/nucleon-pair. These pion pairs are produced wh…

nucl-ex2017★ 31 cited

Insight into the narrow structure in {\boldmath{}}-photoproduction on the neutron from helicity dependent cross sections

L. Witthauer, M. Dieterle, S. Abt +83

The double polarization observable and the helicity dependent cross sections and were measured for photoproduction from quasi-free protons and neutrons.…

nucl-ex2017★ 102 cited

Measurements of jet quenching with semi-inclusive hadron+jet distributions in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +341

The STAR Collaboration reports the measurement of semi-inclusive distributions of charged-particle jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum hadron trigger, in central and per…

nucl-ex2017★ 920 cited

Global hyperon polarization in nuclear collisions: evidence for the most vortical fluid

STAR Collaboration

The extreme temperatures and energy densities generated by ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei produce a state of matter with surprising fluid properties. Non-centra…

nucl-ex2017★ 55 cited

Study of and photoproduction at MAMI

V. L. Kashevarov, P. Ott, S. Prakhov +87

The reactions and have been measured from their thresholds up to the center-of-mass energy GeV with the tagged-photon facilities at the Mainz Microt…

nucl-ex2017★ 633 cited

Bulk Properties of the Medium Produced in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions from the Beam Energy Scan Program

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +340

We present measurements of bulk properties of the matter produced in Au+Au collisions at 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV using identified hadrons (, …

nucl-ex2017★ 9 cited

Constraining the initial conditions and temperature dependent transport with three-particle correlations in Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +340

We present three-particle mixed-harmonic correlations $\la \cos (mϕ_a + nϕ_b - (m+n) ϕ_c)\ra$ for harmonics for charged particles in 200 GeV Au+Au collisi…

nucl-ex2017★ 50 cited

Harmonic decomposition of three-particle azimuthal correlations at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +340

We present measurements of three-particle correlations for various harmonics in Au+Au collisions at energies ranging from to 200 GeV using the STAR detector…

nucl-ex2017★ 155 cited

Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at \sNN = 200\,GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +340

We report the first measurement of the elliptic anisotropy () of the charm meson at mid-rapidity (\,\,1) in Au+Au collisions at \sNN = 200\,GeV. The measurement…