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

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nucl-ex2009★ 65 cited

Studying Parton Energy Loss in Heavy-Ion Collisions via Direct-Photon and Charged-Particle Azimuthal Correlations

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Charged-particle spectra associated with direct photon () and are measured in + and Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energy GeV with…

nucl-ex2009★ 20 cited

Identified high- spectra in Cu+Cu collisions at =200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We report new results on identified (anti)proton and charged pion spectra at large transverse momenta (3<<10 GeV/c) from Cu+Cu collisions at =200 GeV using th…

nucl-ex2009★ 264 cited

Identified particle production, azimuthal anisotropy, and interferometry measurements in Au+Au collisions at = 9.2 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We present the first measurements of identified hadron production, azimuthal anisotropy, and pion interferometry from Au+Au collisions below the nominal injection energy at the Rel…

nucl-ex2009★ 524 cited

Azimuthal Charged-Particle Correlations and Possible Local Strong Parity Violation

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Parity-odd domains, corresponding to non-trivial topological solutions of the QCD vacuum, might be created during relativistic heavy ion collisions. These domains are predicted to…

nucl-ex2009★ 351 cited

Observation of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations and possible local strong parity violation in heavy ion collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Parity-odd domains, corresponding to non-trivial topological solutions of the QCD vacuum, might be created during relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These domains are predicted to…

nucl-ex2009★ 312 cited

Long range rapidity correlations and jet production in high energy nuclear collisions

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

The STAR Collaboration at RHIC presents a systematic study of high transverse momentum charged di-hadron correlations at small azimuthal pair separation \dphino, in d+Au and centra…

nucl-ex2009★ 31 cited

Neutral Pion Production in Au+Au Collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

The results of mid-rapidity () neutral pion spectra over an extended transverse momentum range ( GeV/) in = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions,…

nucl-ex2009★ 90 cited

Growth of Long Range Forward-Backward Multiplicity Correlations with Centrality in Au+Au Collisions at = 200 GeV

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Forward-backward multiplicity correlation strengths have been measured with the STAR detector for Au+Au and collisions at = 200 GeV. Strong short and…

nucl-ex2009★ 108 cited

J/psi production at high transverse momentum in p+p and Cu+Cu collisions at \sNN=200GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

The STAR collaboration at RHIC presents measurements of \Jpsi at mid-rapidity and high transverse momentum ( GeV/) in \pp and central \cucu collisions at \sN…

nucl-ex2008★ 52 cited

Observation of Two-source Interference in the Photoproduction Reaction

B. I. Abelev

In ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a photon from the electromagnetic field of one nucleus can fluctuate to a quark-antiquark pair and scatter from the other nuc…

nucl-ex2008★ 96 cited

Energy and system size dependence of ϕmeson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions

STAR Collaboration

We study the beam-energy and system-size dependence of ϕmeson production (using the hadronic decay mode ϕ-- K+K-) by comparing the new results from Cu+Cu collisions and previously…

nucl-ex2008★ 144 cited

Measurements of meson production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC

The STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

We present results for the measurement of meson production via its charged kaon decay channel in Au+Au collisions at , 130, and 200 GeV, an…

nucl-ex2008★ 978 cited

Systematic Measurements of Identified Particle Spectra in pp, d+Au and Au+Au Collisions from STAR

STAR Collaboration, B. I. Abelev

Identified charged particle spectra of , , and $\pbar$ at mid-rapidity () measured by the $\dedx$ method in the STAR-TPC are reported for and d+…

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-ex2008★ 77 cited

Hadronic resonance production in +Au collisions at = 200 GeV at RHIC

B. I. Abelev

We present the first measurements of the , (892), (1232), (1385), and (1520) resonances in +Au collisions at = 200 GeV, reconst…

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…