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Participant and spectator scaling of spectator fragments in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 19.6 and 22.4 GeV
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +79
Spectator fragments resulting from relativistic heavy ion collisions, consisting of single protons and neutrons along with groups of stable nuclear fragments up to Nitrogen (Z=7),…
Nucleon-Gold Collisions at 200 AGeV Using Tagged d+Au Interactions in PHOBOS
B. B. Back, M. D. Baker, M. Ballintijn +58
Forward calorimetry in the PHOBOS detector has been used to study charged hadron production in d+Au, p+Au and n+Au collisions at sqrt(s_nn) = 200 GeV. The forward proton calorimete…
Phobos results on charged particle multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions at ultra-relativistic energies
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +76
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles emitted in , , , and collisions over a wide energy range have been measured using the PHOBOS detector at…
An Experimental Exploration of the QCD Phase Diagram: The Search for the Critical Point and the Onset of De-confinement
STAR Collaboration, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed +380
The QCD phase diagram lies at the heart of what the RHIC Physics Program is all about. While RHIC has been operating very successfully at or close to its maximum energy for almost…
Non-flow correlations and elliptic flow fluctuations in gold-gold collisions at sqrt(s_NN)= 200 GeV
B. Alver
This paper presents results on event-by-event elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200Gev, where the contribution from non-flow correlations has been subtra…
High transverse momentum triggered correlations over a large pseudorapidity acceptance in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV
B. Alver
A measurement of two-particle correlations with a high transverse momentum trigger particle (p_T^{trig} > 2.5 GeV/c) is presented for Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV over…
System size dependence of cluster properties from two-particle angular correlations in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV
B. Alver
We present results on two-particle angular correlations in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at a center of mass energy per nucleon pair of 200 GeV over a broad range of pseudorapidity ($…
Scaling properties in bulk and p-dependent particle production near midrapidity in relativistic heavy ion collisions
PHOBOS Collaboration, B. Alver, B. B. Back +56
The centrality dependence of the midrapidity charged-particle multiplicity density (1) is presented for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC over a broad range of collision e…
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…
System size, energy, centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of charged-particle density in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC
PHOBOS Collaboration, G. I. Veres, B. Alver +66
Charged particle pseudorapidity distributions are presented from the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC, measured in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=19.6, 22.4, 62.4, 130 and 200 G…
Latest results from the PHOBOS experiment
Barbara Wosiek
Over the past years PHOBOS has continued to analyze the large datasets obtained from the first five runs of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Labora…
Non-flow correlations and elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200GeV
PHOBOS Collaboration, B. Alver, B. B. Back +66
We present first results on event-by-event elliptic flow fluctuations in nucleus-nucleus collisions corrected for effects of non-flow correlations where the magnitude of non-flow c…
Energy and centrality dependence of particle production at very low transverse momenta in Au+Au collisions
Tomasz Gburek
The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has the unique capability of measuring particle production at very low transverse momenta. New results on low-transverse momentum invariant yields of…
System size dependence of two-particle angular correlations in p+p, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions
Wei Li
We present a systematic study of two-particle angular correlations in p+p, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions over a broad range of pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle. The PHOBOS detector…
Recent Results from PHOBOS
Constantin Loizides
In this manuscript we give a short summary of recent physics results from PHOBOS. Particular emphasis is put on elliptic flow, fluctuations in the initial geometry and the recent m…
The Importance of Correlations and Fluctuations on the Initial Source Eccentricity in High-Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +36
In this paper, we investigate various ways of defining the initial source eccentricity using the Monte Carlo Glauber (MCG) approach. In particular, we examine the participant eccen…
System Size, Energy and Centrality Dependence of Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Particles in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +55
We present the first measurements of the pseudorapidity distribution of primary charged particles in Cu+Cu collisions as a function of collision centrality and energy, \sqrtsnn = 2…
Elliptic Flow, Initial Eccentricity and Elliptic Flow fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC
Rachid Nouicer
We present measurements of elliptic flow and event-by-event fluctuations established by the PHOBOS experiment. Elliptic flow scaled by participant eccentricity is found to be simil…
Measuring Photons and Neutrons at Zero Degrees in CMS
O. A. Grachov, B. Metzler, M. Murray +11
The CMS Zero Degree Calorimeters, ZDCs, will measure photons and neutrons emitted with |eta|> 8.6 from Pb+Pb, p+Pb and p+p collisions at sqrt(Snn)=5.5, 8.8 and 14 TeV respectively.…
Elliptic flow fluctuations in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC
Constantin Loizides
We present first results on event-by-event elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV obtained with the PHOBOS detector. Over the measured range in centrality, large…
Event-by-event fluctuations of azimuthal particle anisotropy in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
B. Alver
This paper presents the first measurement of event-by-event fluctuations of the elliptic flow parameter v_2 in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200GeV as a function of collision ce…
Elliptic Flow and Initial Eccentricity in Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
Rachid Nouicer
We present a systematic study of elliptic flow as a function of centrality, pseudorapidity, transverse momentum and energy for Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions from the PHOBOS experiment…
Vertex Reconstruction Using a Single Layer Silicon Detector
E. Garcia, R. S. Hollis, A. Olszewski +6
Typical vertex finding algorithms use reconstructed tracks, registered in a multi-layer detector, which directly point to the common point of origin. A detector with a single layer…
System Size, Energy, Pseudorapidity, and Centrality Dependence of Elliptic Flow
B. Alver
This paper presents measurements of the elliptic flow of charged particles as a function of pseudorapidity and centrality from Cu-Cu collisions at 62.4 and 200 GeV using the PHOBOS…