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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-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★ 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…

nucl-ex2004★ 181 cited

K(892)* Resonance Production in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

The short-lived resonance provides an efficient tool to probe properties of the hot and dense medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We report measureme…

nucl-ex2004★ 283 cited

Pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present a systematic analysis of two-pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC. We extract the HBT radii and study the…

nucl-ex2004★ 37 cited

Pseudorapidity Asymmetry and Centrality Dependence of Charged Hadron Spectra in d+Au Collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration

The pseudorapidity asymmetry and centrality dependence of charged hadron spectra in d+Au collisions at GeV are presented. The charged particle density at mid-ra…

nucl-ex2004★ 140 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy and correlations at large transverse momenta in and Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

Results on high transverse momentum charged particle emission with respect to the reaction plane are presented for Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV. Two- and four-pa…

nucl-ex2004★ 226 cited

Open charm yields in d+Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

Mid-rapidity open charm spectra from direct reconstruction of () in d+Au collisions and indirect electron/positron measurements via charm semi…

nucl-ex2004★ 4 cited

Transverse-momentum dependent modification of dynamic texture in central Au+Au collisions at sqrt(S_NN)=200 GeV

the STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

Correlations in the hadron distributions produced in relativistic Au+Au collisions are studied in the discrete wavelet expansion method. The analysis is performed in the space of p…

nucl-ex2004★ 32 cited

Hadronization geometry from net-charge angular correlations on momentum subspace () in Au-Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We present the first measurements of charge-dependent correlations on angular difference variables (pseudorapidity) and (azimuth) for primary charged hadron…

nucl-ex2004★ 108 cited

Production of Pairs Accompanied by Nuclear Dissociation in Ultra-Peripheral Heavy Ion Collision

J. Adams

We present the first data on pair production accompanied by nuclear breakup in ultra-peripheral gold-gold collisions at a center of mass energy of 200 GeV per nucleon pair…

nucl-ex2004★ 19 cited

Photon and neutral pion production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_{NN}) = 130 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We report the first inclusive photon measurements about mid-rapidity (|y|<0.5) from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_{NN}) = 130 GeV at RHIC. Photon pair conversions were reconstructed f…

nucl-ex2003★ 225 cited

Azimuthal anisotropy at RHIC: the first and fourth harmonics

STAR collaboration, J. Adams

We report the first observations of the first harmonic (directed flow, v_1), and the fourth harmonic (v_4), in the azimuthal distribution of particles with respect to the reaction…

nucl-ex2003★ 141 cited

Pion, kaon, proton and anti-proton transverse momentum distributions from p+p and d+Au collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration

Identified mid-rapidity particle spectra of , , and from 200 GeV p+p and d+Au collisions are reported. A time-of-flight detector based on multi-gap r…

nucl-ex2003★ 81 cited

Event-wise mean p_t fluctuations in Au-Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV

STAR Collaboration, J. Adams

We present the first large-acceptance measurement of event-wise mean transverse momentum mean p_t fluctuations for Au-Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-momentum collision…

nucl-ex2003★ 112 cited

Multiplicity fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at GeV

J. Adams

We present the results of charged particle fluctuations measurements in Au + Au collisions at GeV using the STAR detector. Dynamical fluctuations measurements a…

nucl-ex2003★ 154 cited

rho^0 Production and Possible Modification in Au+Au and p+p Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

J. Adams

We report results on rho(770)^0 -> pi+pi- production at midrapidity in p+p and peripheral Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. This is the first direct measurement of rho(770)…

nucl-ex2003★ 22 cited

Rapidity and Centrality Dependence of Proton and Anti-proton Production from Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130GeV

J. Adams

We report on the rapidity and centrality dependence of proton and anti-proton transverse mass distributions from Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130GeV as measured by the STAR expe…

nucl-ex2003★ 658 cited

Evidence from d+Au measurements for final-state suppression of high hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

J. Adams

We report measurements of single-particle inclusive spectra and two-particle azimuthal distributions of charged hadrons at high transverse momentum (high ) in minimum bias and…

nucl-ex2003★ 555 cited

Particle-type dependence of azimuthal anisotropy and nuclear modification of particle production in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present STAR measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy parameter and the binary-collision scaled centrality ratio for kaons and lambdas () at mid-rapidity…