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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.soft2019★ 15 cited

Minimization principle for shear alignment of liquid crystals

Xingzhou Tang, Jonathan V. Selinger

If a static perturbation is applied to a liquid crystal, the director configuration changes to minimize the free energy. If a shear flow is applied to a liquid crystal, one might a…

nucl-ex2019★ 18 cited

Underlying event measurements in + collisions at GeV at RHIC

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

Particle production sensitive to non-factorizable and non-perturbative processes that contribute to the underlying event associated with a high transverse momentum () jet in…

physics.ins-det2019★ 60 cited

The STAR Event Plane Detector

Joseph Adams, Annika Ewigleben, Sierra Garrett +15

The Event Plane Detector (EPD) is an upgrade detector to the STAR experiment at RHIC, designed to measure the pattern of forward-going charged particles emitted in a high-energy co…

nucl-ex2019★ 20 cited

Signatures of the hexaquark in d(,)

M. Bashkanov, D. P. Watts, S. J. D. Kay +74

We report a measurement of the spin polarisation of the recoiling neutron in deuterium photodisintegration, utilising a new large acceptance polarimeter within the Crystal Ball at…

hep-ph2019★ 28 cited

Photon production and elliptic flow from momentum-anisotropic quark-gluon plasma

Babak Salehi Kasmaei, Michael Strickland

The emission of real photons from a momentum-anisotropic quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is affected by both the collective flow of the radiating medium and the modification of local rest…

nucl-ex2019★ 15 cited

Measurement of D-meson + hadron two-dimensional angular correlations in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV

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

Open heavy flavor hadrons provide unique probes of the medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Due to their increased mass relative to light-flavor hadrons, lon…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 96 cited

On the Deconfinement Phase Transition in Neutron-Star Mergers

Elias R. Most, L. Jens Papenfort, Veronica Dexheimer +3

We study in detail the nuclear aspects of a neutron-star merger in which deconfinement to quark matter takes place. For this purpose, we make use of the Chiral Mean Field (CMF) mod…

nucl-ex2019★ 84 cited

First measurement of baryon production in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +346

We report on the first measurement of the charmed baryon production at midrapidity ( 1) in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV collected by the STAR…

nucl-ex2019★ 155 cited

Measurement of Momentum and Angular Distributions from Linearly Polarized Photon Collisions

STAR Collaboration, M. S. Abdallah, B. E. Aboona +383

The Breit-Wheeler process which produces matter and anti-matter from photon collisions is investigated experimentally through the observation of 6085 exclusive electron-positron pa…

math.CO2019

Characterizing optimal point sets determining one distinct triangle

Hazel N. Brenner, James S. Depret-Guillaume, Eyvindur A. Palsson +1

In this paper we determine the maximum number of points in which form exactly distinct triangles, where we restrict ourselves to the case of . We denote t…

nucl-ex2019★ 10 cited

Recalibration of the binding energy of hypernuclei measured in emulsion experiments and its implications

Peng Liu, Jinhui Chen, Declan Keane +2

The separation energy for -hypernuclei, denoted , measured in 1967, 1968, and 1973 are recalibrated using the current best mass estimates for particles and nuclei. The…

cs.DB2019★ 1 cited

Skyline Queries Over Incomplete Data Streams (Technical Report)

Weilong Ren, Xiang Lian, Kambiz Ghazinour

Nowadays, efficient and effective processing over massive stream data has attracted much attention from the database community, which are useful in many real applications such as s…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 9 cited

Forces and Variational Compatibility for Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Director Models with Coupled Electric Fields

Eugene C. Gartland

Expressions are obtained for force and couple densities and stress tensors in macroscopic models for nematic liquid crystals subjected to electric fields. The coupling between the…

nucl-ex2019★ 14 cited

Spin polarizabilities of the proton by measurement of Compton double-polarization observables

D. Paudyal, P. P. Martel, G. M. Huber +90

The Compton double-polarization observable has been measured for the first time in the resonance region using a circularly polarized photon beam incident on a lo…

cs.CY2019★ 3 cited

Robonomics: The Study of Robot-Human Peer-to-Peer Financial Transactions and Agreements

Irvin Steve Cardenas, Jong-Hoon Kim

The concept of a blockchain has given way to the development of cryptocurrencies, enabled smart contracts, and unlocked a plethora of other disruptive technologies. But, beyond its…

nucl-ex2019★ 45 cited

Bulk Properties of the System Formed in Au+Au Collisions at = 14.5 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +339

We report systematic measurements of bulk properties of the system created in Au+Au collisions at = 14.5 GeV recorded by the STAR detector at the Relativis…

nucl-ex2019★ 27 cited

Cross Section for measured at Mainz/A2

W. J. Briscoe, M. Hadzimehmedovi, A. E. Kudryavtsev +89

The differential cross section evaluated for 27 energy bins span the photon-energy range 290-813 MeV (W = 1.195-1.553 GeV) and the pion c.m. polar production angles,…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 4 cited

Quasiclassical circuit-theory of contiguous disordered multiband superconductors

Ammar A. Kirmani, Maxim Dzero, Alex Levchenko

We consider a general problem of a Josephson contact between two multiband superconductors with coexisting superconducting and magnetic phases. As a particular example, we use the…

nucl-ex2019★ 24 cited

Measurement of the 3He Spin-Structure Functions and of Neutron (3He) Spin-Dependent Sum Rules at 0.035<Q^2<0.24 GeV^2

V. Sulkosky, J. T. Singh, C. Peng +106

The spin-structure functions and , and the spin-dependent partial cross-section have been extracted from the polarized cross-sections differences, $Δσ_{\…

hep-ex2019★ 26 cited

Measurement of the cross sections for inclusive electron scattering in the E12-14-012 experiment at Jefferson Lab

M. Murphy, H. Dai, L. Gu +56

The E12-14-012 experiment performed at Jefferson Lab Hall A has collected inclusive electron-scattering data for different targets at the kinematics corresponding to beam energy 2.…

cs.HC2019★ 36 cited

A Natural-language-based Visual Query Approach of Uncertain Human Trajectories

Zhaosong Huang, Ye Zhao, Wei Chen +6

Visual querying is essential for interactively exploring massive trajectory data. However, the data uncertainty imposes profound challenges to fulfill advanced analytics requiremen…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 49 cited

Three-dimensional solitary waves with electrically tunable direction of propagation in nematics

Bing-Xiang Li, Rui-Lin Xiao, Sathyanarayana Paladugu +2

Production of stable multidimensional solitary waves is a grand challenge in modern science. Steering their propagation is an even harder problem. In this work we demonstrate three…

cs.DC2019★ 3 cited

Blockguard: Adaptive Blockchain Security

Shishir Rai, Kendric Hood, Mikhail Nesterenko +1

We consider the problem of varying the security of blockchain transactions according to their importance. This adaptive security is achieved by using variable size consensus commit…

physics.app-ph2019

Microsecond electro-optic switching of nematic liquid crystals with giant dielectric anisotropy

Bing-Xiang Li, Greta Babakhanova, Rui-Lin Xiao +4

Nematic liquid crystals exhibit a fast optical response when the applied electric field modifies the degree of order but does not change the direction of molecular orientation. The…