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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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math.GR2025

Covering by Centralizers

Mark L. Lewis, Ryan McCulloch

In this paper, we consider covers of finite groups by centralizers of elements. We show that the set of centralizers that are maximal under the partial ordering form a cover of the…

nucl-ex2025

Identified charged hadron production in Au+Au collisions at = 54.4 GeV with the STAR detector

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +360

We present results on the production of , , , and in Au+Au collisions at = 54.4~GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC, at midrap…

hep-ex2025

New high-statistics measurement of the Dalitz decay at the Mainz Microtron

S. Prakhov, L. Heijkenskjöld, S. Abt +69

The Dalitz decay has been measured with the highest statistical accuracy obtained so far in the reaction with the A2 tagged-photon facility at the M…

nucl-ex2025

Evidence of Spin-Interference Effects in Exclusive Photoproduction in Ultraperipheral Heavy-Ion Collisions

The STAR Collaboration

We report the first evidence of spin interference in exclusive photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at STAR at ~GeV. In Au+A…

cond-mat.soft2025

Polar and apolar light-induced alignment of ferroelectric nematic at photosensitive polymer substrate

Ruslan Kravchuk, Oleksandr Kurochkin, Vassili G. Nazarenko +4

Surface alignment of a recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal (NF) is usually achieved by buffed polymer films, which produce a unidirectional polar alignment of…

cond-mat.soft2025

Helix alignment, chevrons, and edge dislocations in twist-bend ferroelectric nematics

Bijaya Basnet, Priyanka Kumari, Sathyanarayana Paladugu +6

We explore surface alignment and edge dislocations in the recently discovered twist-bend ferroelectric nematic, NTBF, in which the vector of spontaneous polarization follows an obl…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Elucidating Many-Body Effects in Molecular Core Spectra through Real-Time Approaches: Efficient Classical Approximations and a Quantum Perspective

Vibin Abraham, Priyabrata Senapati, Himadri Pathak +1

Accurately resolving many-body satellite features in molecular core-level spectra requires theoretical approaches that capture electron correlation both efficiently and systematica…

nucl-ex2025

Backward-angle electroproduction of mesons off protons at and

T. Akiyama, P. Bydžovský, T. Gogami +83

The electroproduction of mesons from a target at , and $\cos θ^{\text{CM}}_{γ^{*}η'} \approx…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Average density of Bloch electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field: A second-order response

Benjamin M. Fregoso

We compute the average density of a three-dimensional multiband crystal of arbitrary symmetry, metal or insulator, to first and second order in a weak homogeneous magnetic field. T…

cs.CR2025

Adding All Flavors: A Hybrid Random Number Generator for dApps and Web3

Ranjith Chodavarapu, Rabimba Karanjai, Xinxin Fan +2

Random numbers play a vital role in many decentralized applications (dApps), such as gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Existing random number provision mechanis…

hep-ex2025

Study of Central Exclusive Production of , and Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at GeV with the STAR Detector at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +378

We report on the first measurement of the Central Exclusive Production process in proton-proton collisions: (where ) at the center-of-…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Speed of sound peak in two-color dense QCD: confronting effective models with lattice data

Arthur E. B. Pasqualotto, Dyana C. Duarte, Ricardo L. S. Farias +1

Lattice simulations of two-color, two-flavor Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at finite quark chemical potential have revealed a distinctive peak structure in the sound velocity. Altho…

hep-ex2025

Measurement of transverse polarization of and hyperons inside jets in collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +363

A surprisingly large transverse polarization of hyperons in unpolarized hadron-nucleon/nucleus collisions has been observed for 50 years, and the origin of this polarization re…

nucl-ex2025★ 3 cited

Observation of charmonium sequential suppression in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +370

We report measurements of charmonium sequential suppression in Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Investigating the Impact of Higher-Order Phase Transitions in Binary Neutron-Star Mergers

P. Hammond, A. Clevinger, M. Albino +10

In this paper we investigate quark deconfinement in neutrons stars and their mergers, focusing on the effects of higher orders for the phase transition between hadronic and quark m…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Multistable polar textures in geometrically frustrated nematic liquid crystals

Ufuoma I. Kara, Boyuan Chen, Simon Čopar +10

The ability to manipulate polar entities with multiple external fields opens exciting possibilities for emerging functionalities and novel applications in spin systems, photonics,…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Spontaneous Cholesteric Phase in Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals: Preference for Integer Number of Pitches

Lincoln Paik, Jonathan V. Selinger

In a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, the electrostatic interaction can induce a spontaneous cholesteric helix, even if the material is not chiral. If the liquid-crystal cell…

hep-ex2025★ 4 cited

Energy Independence of the Collins Asymmetry in Collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +367

The STAR experiment reports new, high-precision measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries for within jets, namely the Collins asymmetries, from transversely…

math.NA2025★ 1 cited

The iterated Golub-Kahan-Tikhonov method

Davide Bianchi, Marco Donatelli, Davide Furchì +1

The Golub-Kahan-Tikhonov method is a popular solution technique for large linear discrete ill-posed problems. This method first applies partial Golub-Kahan bidiagonalization to red…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

U-R-VEDA: Integrating UNET, Residual Links, Edge and Dual Attention, and Vision Transformer for Accurate Semantic Segmentation of CMRs

Racheal Mukisa, Arvind K. Bansal

Artificial intelligence, including deep learning models, will play a transformative role in automated medical image analysis for the diagnosis of cardiac disorders and their manage…

cs.DC2025★ 1 cited

Adaptive Job Scheduling in Quantum Clouds Using Reinforcement Learning

Waylon Luo, Jiapeng Zhao, Tong Zhan +1

Present-day quantum systems face critical bottlenecks, including limited qubit counts, brief coherence intervals, and high susceptibility to errors-all of which obstruct the execut…

astro-ph.HE2025

Recurring region for neutron-star observables

Alexander Clevinger, Zidu Lin, Milena Albino +3

In this letter, we report a novel, somewhat analytical way to produce equations of state (EOSs) that generate particular values of neutron star mass, radius, and tidal deformabilit…

cs.ET2025★ 3 cited

A Quantum Framework for Protein Binding-Site Structure Prediction on Utility-Level Quantum Processors

Yuqi Zhang, Yuxin Yang, William Martin +8

Accurate prediction of protein active-site structures remains a central challenge in structural biology, particularly for short and flexible peptide fragments where conventional an…

hep-ex2025★ 16 cited

Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement

The STAR Collaboration

The vacuum is now understood to possess a rich and complex structure, characterized by fluctuating energy fields and a condensate of virtual quark-antiquark pairs. The spontaneous…