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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-ex2020★ 27 cited

Measurements of and cross sections and their ratios in collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +356

We report on the and differential and total cross sections as well as the / and / cross-section ratios measured by the STAR experiment a…

nucl-ex2020★ 111 cited

Global polarization of and hyperons in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +357

Global polarization of and hyperons has been measured for the first time in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV. The measurements of the and hy…

nucl-ex2020★ 20 cited

Measurement of the Ar(e,e p) and Ti(e,e p) cross sections in Jefferson Lab Hall A

L. Gu, D. Abrams, A. M. Ankowski +58

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has collected exclusive electron-scattering data (e,ep) in parallel kinematics using natural argon and natura…

nucl-ex2020★ 16 cited

Comparison of transverse single-spin asymmetries for forward production in polarized , and collisions at nucleon pair c.m. energy GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +358

The STAR Collaboration reports a measurement of the transverse single-spin asymmetries, , for neutral pions produced in polarized proton collisions with protons (), with…

nucl-ex2020★ 35 cited

Ruling out color transparency in quasi-elastic C(e,e'p) up to of 14.2 (GeV/c)

D. Bhetuwal, J. Matter, H. Szumila-Vance +87

Quasielastic C scattering was measured at space-like 4-momentum transfer squared ~=~8, 9.4, 11.4, and 14.2 (GeV/c), the highest ever achieved to date. Nucl…

nucl-ex2020★ 16 cited

Probing the Deuteron at Very Large Internal Momenta

Carlos Yero

cross sections have been measured at 4-momentum transfers of (GeV/c) over a range of neutron recoil momenta, ,…

nucl-ex2020★ 9 cited

Helicity-dependent cross sections for the photoproduction of pairs from nucleons

M. Dieterle, L. Witthauer, A. Fix +88

The double-polarization observable and helicity-dependent cross sections , have been measured for the photoproduction of pairs off quasi-free protons a…

nucl-ex2020★ 62 cited

Flow and interferometry results from Au+Au collisions at = 4.5 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +355

The Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was extended to energies below = 7.7 GeV in 2015 by successful implementat…

nucl-ex2020★ 20 cited

Beam-Energy Dependence of the Directed Flow of Deuterons in Au+Au Collisions

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +351

We present a measurement of the first-order azimuthal anisotropy, , of deuterons from Au+Au collisions at = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV recorded w…

nucl-ex2020★ 18 cited

Investigation of the linear and mode-coupled flow harmonics in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +352

Flow harmonics () of the Fourier expansion for the azimuthal distributions of hadrons are commonly employed to quantify the azimuthal anisotropy of particle product…

nucl-ex2020★ 19 cited

Pair invariant mass to isolate background in the search for the chiral magnetic effect in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +352

Quark interactions with topological gluon configurations can induce local chirality imbalance and parity violation in quantum chromodynamics, which can lead to the chiral magnetic…

nucl-ex2020★ 55 cited

Measurement of inclusive charged-particle jet production in Au+Au collisions at =200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +352

The STAR Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider reports the first measurement of inclusive jet production in peripheral and central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}…

nucl-ex2020★ 23 cited

Novel observation of isospin structure of short-range correlations in calcium isotopes

D. Nguyen, Z. Ye, P. Aguilera +101

Short Range Correlations (SRCs) have been identified as being responsible for the high momentum tail of the nucleon momentum distribution, n(k). Hard, short-range interactions of n…

nucl-ex2020★ 21 cited

Beam energy dependence of net- fluctuations measured by the STAR experiment at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +347

The measurements of particle multiplicity distributions have generated considerable interest in understanding the fluctuations of conserved quantum numbers in the Quantum Chromodyn…

nucl-ex2020★ 27 cited

Probing few-body nuclear dynamics via 3H and 3He (e,e'p)pn cross-section measurements

R. Cruz-Torres, D. Nguyen, F. Hauenstein +125

We report the first measurement of the \eep three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 (He) and tritium (H) at large momentum transfer ($\langle Q^2 \rangle \ap…

nucl-ex2020★ 222 cited

Non-monotonic energy dependence of net-proton number fluctuations

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +347

Non-monotonic variation with collision energy () of the moments of the net-baryon number distribution in heavy-ion collisions, related to the correlation length…