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nucl-ex2008★ 55 cited

Beam-Energy and System-Size Dependence of Dynamical Net Charge Fluctuations

B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed +360

We present measurements of net charge fluctuations in collisions at 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV, collisions at 62.4, 200…

nucl-ex2008★ 267 cited

Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We present STAR results on the elliptic flow v_2 of charged hadrons, strange and multi-strange particles from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. The detailed study of t…

nucl-ex2008★ 63 cited

Spin alignment measurements of the and vector mesons at RHIC

B. I. Abelev

We present the first spin alignment measurements for the and vector mesons produced at mid-rapidity with transverse momenta up to 5 GeV/c at …

nucl-ex2007★ 4 cited

Forward Lambda Production and Nuclear Stopping Power in d + Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report the measurement of Lamda and Anti-Lamda yields and inverse slope parameters in d + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV at forward and backward rapidities (y = +- 2.75),…

nucl-ex2007★ 129 cited

Enhanced strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions compared to p+p at sqrts = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report on the observed differences in production rates of strange and multi-strange baryons in Au+Au collisions at sqrts = 200 GeV compared to pp interactions at the same energy…

nucl-ex2007★ 157 cited

Global polarization measurement in Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev, I. Selyuzhenkov

The system created in non-central relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions possesses large orbital angular momentum. Due to spin-orbit coupling, particles produced in such a system…

nucl-ex2007★ 179 cited

Energy dependence of charged pion, proton and anti-proton transverse momentum spectra for Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 and 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We study the energy dependence of the transverse momentum (pT) spectra for charged pions, protons and anti-protons for Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 and 200 GeV. Data are…

nucl-ex2007★ 204 cited

Partonic flow and -meson production in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

B. I. Abelev

We present first measurements of the -meson elliptic flow () and high statistics distributions for different centralities from = 200 GeV Au…

nucl-ex2007★ 132 cited

Mass, quark-number, and dependence of the second and fourth flow harmonics in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions

the STAR Collaboration

We present STAR measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy parameter for pions, kaons, protons, , , , and , along with for pions, kaons, prot…

nucl-ex2006★ 47 cited

Neutral Kaon Interferometry in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We present the first statistically meaningful results from two-K0s interferometry in heavy-ion collisions. A model that takes the effect of the strong interaction into account has…

nucl-ex2006★ 368 cited

Measurements of Strange Particle Production in Collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. Abelev

We present strange particle spectra and yields measured at mid-rapidity in GeV proton-proton () collisions at RHIC. We find that the previously observed…

nucl-ex2006★ 437 cited

Erratum: Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of high-\pt\ non-photonic electron suppression in Au+Au collisions at \sqrtsNN\ = 200 GeV

B. I. Abelev

The STAR collaboration at RHIC reports measurements of the inclusive yield of non-photonic electrons, which arise dominantly from semi-leptonic decays of heavy flavor mesons, over…

nucl-ex2006★ 57 cited

Delta- phi Delta- eta Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 Gev

Star Collaboration, J. Adams

We report charged-particle pair correlation analyses in the space of Delta -phi (azimuth) and Delta -eta (pseudo-rapidity), for central Au + Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV…

nucl-ex2006★ 69 cited

The multiplicity dependence of inclusive spectra from p-p collisions at = 200 GeV

J. Adams

We report measurements of transverse momentum spectra for ten event multiplicity classes of p-p collisions at GeV. By analyzing the multiplicity dependence w…

nucl-ex2006★ 295 cited

Identified baryon and meson distributions at large transverse momenta from Au+Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration

Transverse momentum spectra of , and up to 12 GeV/c at mid-rapidity in centrality selected Au+Au collisions at GeV are presented. In…

nucl-ex2006★ 269 cited

Identified hadron spectra at large transverse momentum in p+p and d+Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present the transverse momentum (pT) spectra for identified charged pions, protons and anti-protons from p+p and d+Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV. The spectra are measured…

nucl-ex2005★ 46 cited

Multiplicity and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Particles and Photons at Forward Pseudorapidity in Au + Au Collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present the centrality dependent measurement of multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles and photons in Au + Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 GeV. Th…

nucl-ex2005★ 26 cited

Strangelet Search in AuAu Collisions at 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We have searched for strangelets in a triggered sample of 61 million central (top 4%) Au+Au collisions at $\sNN = 200 $GeV near beam rapidities at the STAR detector. We have sensit…

nucl-ex2005★ 67 cited

Proton-lambda correlations in central Au+Au collisions at sqrt (s_NN)=200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We report on p-Lambda, p-Lambda bar, p bar-Lambda and p bar-Lambda bar correlation functions constructed in central Au-Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200GeV by the STAR experiment at…

nucl-ex2005★ 67 cited

Directed flow in Au+Au collisions at =62.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We present the directed flow () measured in Au+Au collisions at = 62.4 GeV in the mid-pseudorapidity region and in the forward pseudorapidity regi…

nucl-ex2005★ 184 cited

Multi-strange baryon elliptic flow in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)= 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We report on the first measurement of elliptic flow of multi-strange baryons and $Ω+\bar{Omega} in heavy-ion collisions. In minimum bias Au+Au collisions at…

nucl-ex2005★ 45 cited

Multiplicity and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Photons in Au + Au Collisions at = 62.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present the first measurement of multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of photons in the pseudorapidity region 2.3 3.7 for different centralities in Au +…

nucl-ex2005★ 496 cited

Distributions of Charged Hadrons Associated with High Transverse Momentum Particles in pp and Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

Charged hadrons in 0.15 < pt < 4 GeV/c associated with particles of pt^trig > 4 GeV/c are reconstructed in pp and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. The associated multiplicit…

nucl-ex2005★ 3.4k cited

Experimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We review the most important experimental results from the first three years of nucleus-nucleus collision studies at RHIC, with emphasis on results from the STAR experiment, and we…