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most citedGlobal hyperon polarization in nuclear collisions: evidence for the most vortical fluid

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129 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Hyperon-Nucleon Spectrometer

Xiaozhi Bai, Xu Cao, Zhe Cao +237

Chirality lies at the heart of low-energy QCD, governing the symmetry structure that shapes hadron masses and strong interaction dynamics. Among the most compelling open questions…

nucl-ex2026★ 1 cited

Selected highlights from STAR experiment

Jinhui Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Maowu Nie +13

In this paper, we review recent highlights in heavy-ion collisions and proton-proton collisions at top energies from STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) w…

nucl-th2026

Collision energy and system size dependence of longitudinal flow decorrelation in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies

Gaoguo Yan, Maowu Nie, Zhenyu Chen +2

In heavy-ion collisions, the initial collision geometry and its fluctuations drive the collective expansion of final-state hadrons in the transverse plane. However, longitudinal fl…

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-…

nucl-ex2025★ 13 cited

Onset of Constituent Quark Number Scaling in Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +355

Partonic collectivity is one of the necessary signatures for the formation of quark-gluon plasma in high-energy nuclear collisions. Number of constituent quarks (NCQ) scaling has b…

nucl-ex2024★ 10 cited

Light Nuclei Femtoscopy and Baryon Interactions in 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

The STAR Collaboration

We report the measurements of proton-deuteron (-) and deuteron-deuteron (-) correlation functions in Au+Au collisions at = 3 GeV using fixed-targ…

physics.ins-det2024

The STAR Forward Silicon Tracker

J. D. Brandenburg, Y. Chang, J. Dong +21

The Forward Silicon Tracker (FST) is a pivotal component of the forward upgrade of the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR), designed to discern hadron charge signs with a momentum re…

nucl-th2024

Exploring system size dependence of jet modification in heavy-ion collisions

Yang He, Mengxue Zhang, Maowu Nie +2

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, jet quenching in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been extensively studied, revealing important insights into the properties of the color deconfin…

nucl-ex2024

Temperature Measurement of Quark-Gluon Plasma at Different Stages

STAR Collaboration

In a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), the fundamental building blocks of matter, quarks and gluons, are under extreme conditions of temperature and density. A QGP could exist in the early…

nucl-ex2024★ 90 cited

Imaging Shapes of Atomic Nuclei in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

STAR Collaboration

Atomic nuclei are self-organized, many-body quantum systems bound by strong nuclear forces within femtometer-scale space. These complex systems manifest a variety of shapes, tradit…

nucl-th2024★ 7 cited

Deciphering yield modification of hadron-triggered semi-inclusive recoil jets in heavy-ion collisions

Yang He, Maowu Nie, Shanshan Cao +3

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a hot and dense state of matter, called the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is produced. Semi-inclusive jets recoiling from trigger hadrons of high…

nucl-ex2023★ 1 cited

Measurement of flow coefficients in high-multiplicity +Au, +Au and HeAu collisions at =200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +350

Flow coefficients ( and ) are measured in high-multiplicity +Au, +Au, and HeAu collisions at a center-of-mass energy of = 200 G…

nucl-ex2023★ 19 cited

Production of Protons and Light Nuclei in Au+Au Collisions at = 3 GeV with the STAR Detector

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +349

We report the systematic measurement of protons and light nuclei production in Au+Au collisions at = 3 GeV by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy…

nucl-ex2023★ 13 cited

Estimate of Background Baseline and Upper Limit on the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Isobar Collisions at GeV at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +342

For the search of the chiral magnetic effect (CME), STAR previously presented the results from isobar collisions (, ${^{96}_{40}\text{Z…

nucl-ex2023★ 18 cited

Observation of the Antimatter Hypernucleus

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +350

At the origin of the Universe, asymmetry between the amount of created matter and antimatter led to the matter-dominated Universe as we know today. The origins of this asymmetry re…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

Results on Elastic Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at GeV with the STAR Detector at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +351

We report results on an elastic cross section measurement in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy GeV, obtained with the Roman Pot setup of the STAR e…

hep-ex2023★ 8 cited

Longitudinal and transverse spin transfer to and hyperons in polarized + collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +364

The longitudinal and transverse spin transfers to () hyperons in polarized proton-proton collisions are expected to be sensitive to the helicity and transversity di…

nucl-ex2023★ 14 cited

Upper Limit on the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Isobar Collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +342

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon that arises from the QCD anomaly in the presence of an external magnetic field. The experimental search for its evidence has been o…

nucl-th2023

Impact of nuclear structure on longitudinal flow decorrelations in high-energy isobar collisions

Maowu Nie, Chunjian Zhang, Zhenyu Chen +2

Fluctuations of harmonic flow along pseudorapidity, known as flow decorrelations, are an important probe of the initial state geometry of the quark-gluon plasma. The flow decorrela…

nucl-ex2023

Jet-hadron correlations with respect to the event plane in = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions in STAR

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +348

Angular distributions of charged particles relative to jet axes are studied in = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions as a function of the jet orientation with respect…

nucl-ex2023★ 40 cited

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

The STAR Collaboration

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a global spin polarization, , of and hyperons along the direction of the system angular momentum was discovered and…

nucl-ex2023★ 2 cited

Collision-energy Dependence of Deuteron Cumulants and Proton-deuteron Correlations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +351

We report the first measurements of cumulants, up to order, of deuteron number distributions and proton-deuteron correlations in Au+Au collisions recorded by the STAR expe…

nucl-ex2023★ 4 cited

Event-by-event correlations between () hyperon global polarization and handedness with charged hadron azimuthal separation in Au+Au collisions at from STAR

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +342

Global polarizations () of () hyperons have been observed in non-central heavy-ion collisions. The strong magnetic field primarily created by the spectator protons in…

nucl-ex2023★ 2 cited

Observation of the electromagnetic field effect via charge-dependent directed flow in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

STAR Collaboration, M. I. Abdulhamid, B. E. Aboona +339

The deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions enables the exploration of the fundamental properties of matter under extreme conditions. Non-c…