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

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24 papers

nucl-th2025

Shedding Light on (Anti-)nuclei Production with Pion-Nucleus Femtoscopy

Li-Yuan Zhang, Ze-Hua Zhang, Che Ming Ko +6

High-energy nuclear collisions provide a unique environment for synthesizing both nuclei and antinuclei (such as and ) at temperatures ($k_BT\sim1…

nucl-th2025

Tracing pT-differential radial flow from blast-wave analytics to quark coalescence

Jie Wan, Chun-Zheng Wang, Yu-Gang Ma +1

The observable $v_0(\pt)$, which quantifies event-by-event fluctuations in the differential transverse-momentum spectrum, is proposed as a direct and penetrating probe of radial fl…

nucl-th2025

Assessing background effects in search of the chiral vortical effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Chunzheng Wang, Jie Wan, Jinfeng Liao +7

The search for the Chiral Vortical Effect (CVE) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is carried out by measuring azimuthal correlators for baryon pairs such as and protons. Exp…

nucl-th2025★ 1 cited

Particle species dependence of elliptic flow fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies in a multiphase transport model

Jie Wan, Chun-Zheng Wang, Yu-Gang Ma +2

The fluctuations of elliptic flow (\vtwo) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions offer a powerful tool to probe the collective behavior and transport properties of the quark-gluon pl…

hep-ph2024★ 29 cited

Production of exotic hadrons in and nuclear collisions

Jinhui Chen, Feng-Kun Guo, Yu-Gang Ma +5

Exotic hadrons beyond the conventional quark model have been discovered in the past two decades. Investigations of these states can lead to deep understanding of nonperturbative dy…

nucl-th2024

Softening of the Hypertriton Transverse Momentum Spectrum in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Dai-Neng Liu, Che Ming Ko, Yu-Gang Ma +5

Understanding the properties of hypernuclei helps to constrain the interaction between hyperon and nucleon, which is known to play an essential role in determining the properties o…

nucl-th2022★ 17 cited

Global constraint on the magnitude of anomalous chiral effects in heavy-ion collisions

Wen-Ya Wu, Qi-Ye Shou, Panos Christakoglou +8

When searching for anomalous chiral effects in heavy-ion collisions, one of the most crucial points is the relationship between the signal and the background. In this letter, we pr…

nucl-th2022★ 15 cited

Impact of nuclear structure on the CME background in Ru + Ru and Zr + Zr collisions at = 7.7 200 GeV from a multiphase transport model

Fei Li, Yu-Gang Ma, Song Zhang +2

Impacts of nuclear structure on multiplicity () and anisotropic flows ( and ) in the isobaric collisions of Ru + Ru and Zr…

nucl-th2021★ 16 cited

Interpreting the charge-dependent flow and constraining the chiral magnetic wave with event shape engineering

Chun-Zheng Wang, Wen-Ya Wu, Qi-Ye Shou +3

The charge asymmetry (Ach) dependence of anisotropic flow serves as an important tool to search for the chiral magnetic wave (CMW) in heavy-ion collisions. However, the background…

hep-ph2019★ 10 cited

Charge asymmetry dependence of flow and a novel correlator to detect the chiral magnetic wave in a multiphase transport model

Diyu Shen, Jinhui Chen, Guoliang Ma +4

In a multiphase transport model with the initial electric quadrupole moment, we studied and discussed the charge asymmetry () dependence of flow at varied kinematic win…

nucl-ex2019★ 45 cited

Collision energy dependence of second-order off-diagonal and diagonal cumulants of net-charge, net-proton and net-kaon multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +338

We report the first measurements of a complete second-order cumulant matrix of net-charge, net-proton, and net-kaon multiplicity distributions for the first phase of the beam energ…

nucl-ex2017★ 920 cited

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

STAR Collaboration

The extreme temperatures and energy densities generated by ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei produce a state of matter with surprising fluid properties. Non-centra…

nucl-th2014★ 21 cited

Charge separation with fluctuating domains in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Qi-Ye Shou, Guo-Liang Ma, Yu-Gang Ma

Charge separation induced by the chiral magnetic effect suggested that some - or -odd metastable domains could be produced in a QCD vacuum in the early stage o…

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…

nucl-ex2013★ 1 cited

Jet-Hadron Correlations in sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV p+p and Central Au+Au Collisions

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +351

Azimuthal angular correlations of charged hadrons with respect to the axis of a reconstructed (trigger) jet in Au+Au and p+p collisions at i…

nucl-ex2013★ 11 cited

Fluctuations of charge separation perpendicular to the event plane and local parity violation in sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +363

Previous experimental results based on data (15 million events) collected by the STAR detector at RHIC suggest event-by-event charge separation fluctuations perpendicular to the ev…

nucl-ex2013★ 24 cited

Freeze-out Dynamics via Charged Kaon Femtoscopy in sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Central Au+Au Collisions

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +363

We present measurements of three-dimensional correlation functions of like-sign low transverse momentum kaon pairs from sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. A Cartesian surface-sphe…

nucl-ex2013★ 13 cited

System size dependence of transverse momentum correlations at 62.4 and 200 GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +363

We present a study of the average transverse momentum () fluctuations and correlations for charged particles produced in Cu+Cu collisions at midrapidity for $\sqrt{s_{NN…

nucl-ex2013★ 134 cited

Third Harmonic Flow of Charged Particles in Au+Au Collisions at sqrtsNN = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +359

We report measurements of the third harmonic coefficient of the azimuthal anisotropy, v_3, known as triangular flow. The analysis is for charged particles in Au+Au collisions at sq…

nucl-ex2012

Studies of di-jets in Au+Au collisions using angular correlations with respect to back-to-back leading hadrons

Hua Pei

Jet-medium interactions are studied via a multi-hadron correlation technique (called "2+1"), where a pair of back-to-back hadron triggers with large transverse momentum is used as…

nucl-ex2012★ 54 cited

Single Spin Asymmetry in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev +365

We report a high precision measurement of the transverse single spin asymmetry at the center of mass energy GeV in elastic proton-proton scattering by the STAR…

hep-ex2011★ 24 cited

Measurement of the and Production Cross Sections at Mid-rapidity in Proton-Proton Collisions at = 500 GeV

STAR Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal +346

We report measurements of the charge-separated and production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions a…

nucl-ex2011★ 62 cited

Anomalous centrality evolution of two-particle angular correlations from Au-Au collisions at = 62 and 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal +350

We present two-dimensional (2D) two-particle angular correlations on relative pseudorapidity and azimuth for charged particles from Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} =…

nucl-ex2010★ 7 cited

Measurements of Dihadron Correlations Relative to the Event Plane in Au+Au Collisions at GeV

H. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed +366

Dihadron azimuthal correlations containing a high transverse momentum () trigger particle are sensitive to the properties of the nuclear medium created at RHIC through the str…