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most citedQuark Gluon Plasma an Color Glass Condensate at RHIC? The perspective from the BRAHMS experiment

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18 papers

physics.ins-det2021★ 14 cited

Test beam characterization of sensor prototypes for the CMS Barrel MIP Timing Detector

R. Abbott, A. Abreu, F. Addesa +196

The MIP Timing Detector will provide additional timing capabilities for detection of minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) at CMS during the High Luminosity LHC era, improving event re…

hep-ex2021★ 17 cited

Performance of the CMS Zero Degree Calorimeters in pPb collisions at the LHC

O. Surányi, A. Al-Bataineh, J. Bowen +19

The two Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDCs) of the CMS experiment are located at m from the collision point and detect neutral particles in the pseudorapidity reg…

hep-ph2016★ 139 cited

LHC Forward Physics

K. Akiba, M. Akbiyik, M. Albrow +184

The goal of this report is to give a comprehensive overview of the rich field of forward physics, with a special attention to the topics that can be studied at the LHC. The report…

physics.ins-det2016★ 25 cited

Dose rate effects in the radiation damage of the plastic scintillators of the CMS Hadron Endcap Calorimeter

HCAL collaboration

We present measurements of the reduction of light output by plastic scintillators irradiated in the CMS detector during the 8 TeV run of the Large Hadron Collider and show that the…

nucl-ex2016★ 1 cited

Rapidity and centrality dependence of particle production for identified hadrons in Cu+Cu collisions at GeV

BRAHMS Collaboration, I. C. Arsene, I. G. Bearden +41

The BRAHMS collaboration has measured transverse momentum spectra of pions, kaons, protons and antiprotons at rapidities 0 and 3 for Cu+Cu collisions at GeV.…

nucl-ex2015

Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the transverse energy flow in pPb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV

Christopher Bruner, Michael Murray

The almost hermetic coverage of CMS is used to measure the distribution of transverse energy as a function of pseudo-rapidity for pPb collisions at TeV. For…

physics.ins-det2010★ 9 cited

Commissioning of the CMS zero degree calorimeter using LHC beam

O. Grachov, M. Murray, J. Wood +3

This paper reports on the commissioning and first running experience of the CMS Zero Degree Calorimeters during December 2009. All channels worked correctly. The ZDCs were timed in…

nucl-ex2010★ 22 cited

Rapidity dependence of deuteron production in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

BRAHMS Collaboration, I. Arsene, I. G. Bearden +42

We have measured the distributions of protons and deuterons produced in high energy heavy ion Au+Au collisions at RHIC over a very wide range of transverse and longitudinal momentu…

nucl-ex2009★ 1 cited

Heavy Ion Physics Program in CMS Experiment

Olga Kodolova, Michael Murray

We present the capabilities of the CMS experiment to explore the heavy-ion physics program offered by the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The prime goal of this research is to te…

astro-ph2008★ 10 cited

Atmospheric Consequences of Cosmic Ray Variability in the Extragalactic Shock Model II: Revised ionization levels and their consequences

A. L. Melott, D. Atri, B. C. Thomas +3

It has been suggested that galactic shock asymmetry induced by our galaxy's infall toward the Virgo Cluster may be a source of periodicity in cosmic ray exposure as the solar syste…

nucl-ex2008★ 16 cited

Performance of the combined zero degree calorimeter for CMS

O A Grachov, M Murray, J Snyder +9

The combined zero degree calorimeter (ZDC) is a combination of sampling quartz/tungsten electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters. Two identical combined calorimeters are located i…

nucl-ex2007★ 22 cited

Flavor Dynamics

Michael Murray

The purpose of BRAHMS is to survey the dynamics of relativistic heavy ion (as well as pp and d-A) collisions over a very wide range of rapidity and transverse momentum. The sum of…

nucl-ex2006★ 1 cited

Rapidity dependence of high p_T suppression at sqrt{s_{NN}}=62.4{GeV}

I. Arsene, I. G. Bearden, D. Beavis +49

We present measurements of charged hadron p_T spectra from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(snn)=62.4 GeV for pseudorapidities eta=0, eta=1 and eta=3.2. Around midrapidity (eta=0, eta=1) w…

nucl-ex2004★ 2.3k cited

Quark Gluon Plasma an Color Glass Condensate at RHIC? The perspective from the BRAHMS experiment

I. Arsene

We review the main results obtained by the BRAHMS collaboration on the properties of hot and dense hadronic and partonic matter produced in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions a…

nucl-ex2004★ 46 cited

Scanning the phases of QCD with BRAHMS

Michael Murray, BRAHMS Collaboration

BRAHMS has the ability to study relativistic heavy ion collisions from the final freeze-out of hadrons all the way back to the initial wave-function of the gold nuclei. This is acc…

nucl-ex2002★ 4 cited

Kaon Phase Space Density in Heavy Ion Collisions

Michael Murray

The first measurement of kaon phase space densities are presented as a function of transverse mass, center of mass energy and the number of participants. The kaon phase space densi…

nucl-ex2001

HBT in Relativisitic Heavy Ion Collisions

Michael Murray

A summary of current interferometry data in relativistic heavy ions is presented. At sqrt{s}=17GeV a sudden increase in the pion source volume is observed for central PbPb collisio…

nucl-ex2000★ 8 cited

(Anti)Proton and Pion Source Sizes and Phase Space Densities in Heavy Ion Collisions

Michael Murray

NA44 has measured mid-rapidity deuteron spectra from AA collisions at sqrt{s}=18GeV/A at the CERN SPS. Combining these spectra with published proton, antiproton and antideuteron da…