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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★ 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-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…

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★ 10 cited

Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of charged hadron production at intermediate p_T in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present STAR measurements of charged hadron production as a function of centrality in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV. The measurements cover a phase space region of…

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★ 95 cited

Azimuthally sensitive Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_{NN}) = 200 GeV

STAR Collaboration

We present the results of a systematic study of the shape of the pion distribution in coordinate space at freeze-out in Au+Au collisions at RHIC using two-pion Hanbury Brown-Twiss…

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…