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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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72 papers

hep-ex2023

Measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries for dijet production in polarized proton-proton collisions at = 200

STAR Collaboration

We report a new measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries for dijet production in collisions of polarized protons at = 200 . Correlations between t…

nucl-ex2019★ 46 cited

Charge-dependent pair correlations relative to a third particle in +Au and +Au collisions at RHIC

STAR collaboration

Quark interactions with topological gluon configurations can induce chirality imbalance and local parity violation in quantum chromodynamics. This can lead to electric charge separ…

nucl-ex2019★ 1 cited

Measurement of away-side broadening with self-subtraction of flow in Au+Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration

High transverse momentum () particle production is suppressed due to parton (jet) energy loss in the hot dense medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Redistribut…

nucl-ex2019★ 237 cited

Polarization of () hyperons along the beam direction in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +343

The () hyperon polarization along the beam direction has been measured for the first time in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV. The polarization dependenc…

nucl-ex2019★ 96 cited

First observation of the directed flow of and in Au+Au collisions at = 200~GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +342

We report the first measurement of rapidity-odd directed flow () for and mesons at mid-rapidity () in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm…

hep-ex2019★ 134 cited

Measurement of the mass difference and the binding energy of the hypertriton and antihypertriton

STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk +340

According to the CPT theorem, which states that the combined operation of charge conjugation, parity transformation and time reversal must be conserved, particles and their antipar…

nucl-ex2017★ 36 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy in Cu+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +345

The azimuthal anisotropic flow of identified and unidentified charged particles has been systematically studied in Cu+Au collisions at = 200 GeV for harmonics $n…

hep-ex2017★ 29 cited

Transverse spin-dependent azimuthal correlations of charged pion pairs measured in p+p collisions at = 500 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +344

The transversity distribution, which describes transversely polarized quarks in transversely polarized nucleons, is a fundamental component of the spin structure of the nucleon, an…

nucl-ex2017★ 69 cited

Measurement of hyper triton lifetime in Au + Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

The STAR Collaboration

A precise measurement of the hypertriton lifetime is presented. In this letter, the mesonic decay modes and $\mathrm{{^3_Λ}H \rightarrow d…

nucl-ex2017★ 62 cited

Beam Energy Dependence of Jet-Quenching Effects in Au+Au Collisions at = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. R. Adams +338

We report measurements of the nuclear modification factor, , for charged hadrons as well as identified , , and for Au+Au col…

nucl-ex2017★ 102 cited

Measurements of jet quenching with semi-inclusive hadron+jet distributions in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +341

The STAR Collaboration reports the measurement of semi-inclusive distributions of charged-particle jets recoiling from a high transverse momentum hadron trigger, in central and per…

nucl-ex2017★ 633 cited

Bulk Properties of the Medium Produced in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions from the Beam Energy Scan Program

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +340

We present measurements of bulk properties of the matter produced in Au+Au collisions at 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV using identified hadrons (, …

nucl-ex2015★ 120 cited

Measurement of interaction between antiprotons

STAR Collaboration

One of the primary goals of nuclear physics is to understand the force between nucleons, which is a necessary step for understanding the structure of nuclei and how nuclei interact…

nucl-ex2014★ 12 cited

Dielectron Azimuthal Anisotropy at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration

We report on the first measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy () of dielectrons ( pairs) at mid-rapidity from GeV Au+Au collisions with t…

nucl-ex2014★ 317 cited

Beam energy dependence of moments of the net-charge multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration

We report the first measurements of the moments -- mean (), variance (), skewness () and kurtosis () -- of the net-charge multiplicity distributions at mid-rapidity…

nucl-ex2013★ 13 cited

polarization in p+p collisions at = 200 GeV in STAR

STAR Collaboration, L. Adamczyk, J. K. Adkins +353

We report on a polarization measurement of inclusive mesons in the di-electron decay channel at mid-rapidity at 2 6 GeV/ in collisions at = 200…

nucl-ex2011★ 51 cited

Energy and system-size dependence of two- and four-particle measurements in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and their implications on flow fluctuations and nonflow

The STAR Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal +344

We present STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropy by means of the two- and four-particle cumulants ( and ) for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at center of…

nucl-ex2011★ 32 cited

System size and energy dependence of near-side di-hadron correlations

STAR Collaboration, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal +353

Two-particle azimuthal () and pseudorapidity () correlations using a trigger particle with large transverse momentum () in +Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt…

nucl-ex2011★ 100 cited

Identified hadron compositions in p+p and Au+Au collisions at high transverse momenta at GeV

STAR Collaboration

We report transverse momentum ( GeV/) spectra of , , , , , and at mid-rapidity in p+p and Au+Au collisions at $\sq…

nucl-ex2011★ 29 cited

Directed and elliptic flow of charged particles in Cu+Cu collisions at 22.4 GeV

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

This paper reports results for directed flow and elliptic flow of charged particles in Cu+Cu collisions at 22.4 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion C…

nucl-ex2011★ 36 cited

Photoproduction in AuAu Collisions at =62.4 GeV with STAR

G. Agakishiev

Vector mesons may be photoproduced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions when a virtual photon emitted by one nucleus scatters from the other nucleus, emerging as a vector meson. Th…

nucl-ex2011★ 90 cited

Evolution of the differential transverse momentum correlation function with centrality in Au+Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present first measurements of the evolution of the differential transverse momentum correlation function, {\it C}, with collision centrality in Au+Au interactions at $\sqrt{s_{N…

nucl-ex2011★ 195 cited

Observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus

STAR Collaboration

High-energy nuclear collisions create an energy density similar to that of the universe microseconds after the Big Bang, and in both cases, matter and antimatter are formed with co…

nucl-ex2011★ 16 cited

Studies of di-jet survival and surface emission bias in Au+Au collisions via angular correlations with respect to back-to-back leading hadrons

H. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed +373

We report first results from an analysis based on a new multi-hadron correlation technique, exploring jet-medium interactions and di-jet surface emission bias at RHIC. Pairs of bac…