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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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cond-mat.str-el2013★ 2 cited

Tunneling in heavy-fermion junctions

Maxim Dzero

In this paper I briefly overview recent theoretical and experimental advances in understanding of tunneling processes between normal metals and metals containing electrons which oc…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 411 cited

Living Liquid Crystals

Shuang Zhou, Andrey Sokolov, Oleg D Lavrentovich +1

Collective motion of self-propelled organisms or synthetic particles often termed active fluid has attracted enormous attention in broad scientific community because of it fundamen…

hep-ph2013★ 70 cited

Thermalization and isotropization in heavy-ion collisions

Michael Strickland

I review our current understanding of the processes driving the thermalization and isotropization of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions…

nucl-ex2013★ 29 cited

Quasi-free photoproduction of eta-mesons off 3He nuclei

L. Witthauer, D. Werthmueller, I. Keshelashvili +70

Quasi-free photoproduction of -mesons has been measured off nucleons bound in He nuclei for incident photon energies from the threshold region up to 1.4 GeV. The experiment…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013

A highly-ordered, high mobility organic semiconductor grown from a mesophase: A test of polaron band theory

Naresh Shakya, Chandra Pokhrel, Brett Ellman +4

We find that the hole mobility of the crystal smectic phases of the liquid crystal 1,4-di-(5-n-tridecylthien-2-yl)-benzene increases exponentially with decreasing temperature. Whil…

hep-ex2013★ 91 cited

Dielectron Mass Spectra from Au+Au Collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +350

We report the STAR measurements of dielectron () production at midrapidity (1) in Au+Au collisions at = 200\,GeV. The measurements are evalua…

nucl-ex2013★ 107 cited

Suppression of Upsilon Production in d+Au and Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev +354

We report measurements of Upsilon meson production in p+p, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions using the STAR detector at RHIC. We compare the Upsilon yield to the measured cross section in…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 146 cited

Transport of Particles in Liquid Crystals

Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Colloidal particles in a liquid crystal (LC) behave very differently from their counterparts in isotropic fluids. Elastic nature of the orientational order and surface anchoring of…

nucl-ex2013★ 48 cited

A narrow structure in the excitation function of eta-photoproduction off the neutron

D. Werthmueller, L. Witthauer, I. Keshelashvili +69

The photoproduction of -mesons off nucleons bound in H and He has been measured in coincidence with recoil protons and recoil neutrons for incident photon energies from…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 124 cited

Effect of collective molecular reorientations on Brownian motion of colloids in nematic liquid crystal

Taras Turiv, Israel Lazo, Alexander Brodin +4

In the simplest realization of Brownian motion, a colloidal sphere moves randomly in an isotropic fluid; its mean squared displacement (MSD) grows linearly with time . Br…

nucl-th2013★ 146 cited

Second-order (2+1)-dimensional anisotropic hydrodynamics

Dennis Bazow, Ulrich W. Heinz, Michael Strickland

We present a complete formulation of second-order (2+1)-dimensional anisotropic hydrodynamics. The resulting framework generalizes leading-order anisotropic hydrodynamics by allowi…

nucl-ex2013★ 46 cited

Single Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Hadrons Produced in Electron Scattering from a Transversely Polarized He Target

K. Allada, Y. X. Zhao, K. Aniol +113

We report the first measurement of target single-spin asymmetries (A) in the inclusive hadron production reaction, +, using a transv…

nucl-ex2013★ 13 cited

polarization in p+p collisions at = 200 GeV in STAR

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +353

We report on a polarization measurement of inclusive mesons in the di-electron decay channel at mid-rapidity at 2 6 GeV/ in collisions at = 200…

nucl-ex2013★ 229 cited

Neutron skin of Pb from Coherent Pion Photoproduction

C. M. Tarbert, D. P. Watts, D. I. Glazier +57

Information on the size and shape of the neutron skin on Pb has been extracted from coherent pion photoproduction cross sections measured using the Crystal Ball together wi…

nucl-ex2013★ 80 cited

production at low in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at = 200 GeV at STAR

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +352

The $\jpsi$ $\pt$ spectrum and nuclear modification factor ($\raa$) are reported for $\pt < 5 \ \gevc$ and from 0\% to 60\% central Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\snn = 20…

nucl-ex2013★ 27 cited

Measurement of the (, ) reaction using a novel nucleon spin polarimeter

D. P. Watts, D. I. Glazier, P. Aguar-Bartolomé +74

We report the first large-acceptance measurement of polarization transfer from a polarized photon beam to a recoiling nucleon, pioneering a novel polarimetry technique with wide ap…

nucl-ex2013★ 468 cited

Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +352

We report the beam energy (\sqrt s_{NN} = 7.7 - 200 GeV) and collision centrality dependence of the mean (M), standard deviation (σ), skewness (S), and kurtosis (κ) of the net-prot…

nucl-ex2013★ 13 cited

JLab Measurement of the He Charge Form Factor at Large Momentum Transfers

A. Camsonne, A. T. Katramatou, M. Olson +66

The charge form factor of $^$4He has been extracted in the range 29 fm fm from elastic electron scattering, detecting He nuclei and electrons in…

cs.OH2013★ 13 cited

Formal Contexts, Formal Concept Analysis, and Galois Connections

Jeffrey T. Denniston, Austin Melton, Stephen E. Rodabaugh

Formal concept analysis (FCA) is built on a special type of Galois connections called polarities. We present new results in formal concept analysis and in Galois connections by pre…

hep-ph2013★ 117 cited

Charmonia and Bottomonia in a Magnetic Field

Jeremy Alford, Michael Strickland

We study the effect of a static homogeneous external magnetic field on charmonium and bottomonium states. In an external magnetic field, quarkonium states do not have a conserved c…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 663 cited

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

Volodymyr Borshch, Young-Ki Kim, Jie Xiang +8

A state of matter in which molecules show a long-range orientational order and no positional order is called a nematic liquid crystal. The best known and most widely used (for exam…

hep-ex2013★ 50 cited

A new determination of the eta transition form factor in the Dalitz decay eta -> e^+ e^- gamma with the Crystal Ball/TAPS detectors at the Mainz Microtron

P. Aguar-Bartolomé, J. R. M. Annand, H. J. Arends +73

The Dalitz decay eta -> e^+ e^- gamma has been measured in the gamma p -> eta p reaction with the Crystal Ball and TAPS multiphoton spectrometers, together with the photon tagging…

hep-ph2013★ 95 cited

Three-loop HTLpt Pressure and Susceptibilities at Finite Temperature and Density

Najmul Haque, Jens O. Andersen, Munshi G. Mustafa +2

We present results of a three-loop hard-thermal-loop perturbation theory calculation of the thermodynamical potential of a finite temperature and baryon chemical potential system o…

nucl-ex2013★ 46 cited

Neutral pion cross section and spin asymmetries at intermediate pseudorapidity in polarized proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +360

The differential cross section and spin asymmetries for neutral pions produced within the intermediate pseudorapidity range 0.8 < η < 2.0 in polarized proton-proton collisions at s…