Recent Results and Future Prospects from the STAR Beam Energy Scan Program
arXiv:2305.07139
Abstract
The STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed data taking for the second phase of the beam energy scan (BES-II) program, including in a fixed-target (FXT) mode. The BES-II program has collected high-statistics data on Au+Au collisions in the high baryon-density region of the QCD phase diagram. Together those data cover a wide range of per-nucleon center-of-mass energy from 3~GeV to 27~GeV. Recent results and anticipated analyses will be discussed along with implications for mapping the QCD phase diagram and its critical point.
Contribution to the 2023 QCD session of the 57th Rencontres de Moriond, 4 pages, 2 figures