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most citedGlobal hyperon polarization in nuclear collisions: evidence for the most vortical fluid

920 citations · 8.2k across the 208 of their papers we have counts for

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210 papers

hep-ph2026

Predictions for neutron-tagged Coulomb dissociation in ultraperipheral Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions

Huda Nasrulloh, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +4

The photonuclear response reflects nuclear structure and the dynamics of excitation and decay, with neutron-emission channels retaining information that can be obscured in inclusiv…

nucl-th2026

Effective Contact Theory for Exotic Loosely Bound States in Strongly Interacting Expanding Matter

Xiaofeng Wang, Zebo Tang, Zhangbu Xu +2

Short-distance correlations generate universal relations that can be independent of microscopic details. Tan's contact is a prominent example, connecting close pairs, high-momentum…

nucl-th2026

Ultra-Peripheral Collisions as a Nuclear-Structure Interferometer with Interpretable Multitask Deep Learning

Jing-Zong Zhang, Wang-Mei Zha, Lingxiao Wang +1

Precise knowledge of nuclear structure is essential across fundamental physics, yet probing these structures is notoriously difficult. To address this challenge, ultra-peripheral c…

physics.ins-det2026

Hyperon-Nucleon Spectrometer

Xiaozhi Bai, Xu Cao, Zhe Cao +237

Chirality lies at the heart of low-energy QCD, governing the symmetry structure that shapes hadron masses and strong interaction dynamics. Among the most compelling open questions…

hep-ph2026

Interference-induced entanglement in an effectively zero-lifetime particle pair

Xin Wu, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

Quantum entanglement in high-energy collisions is often obscured by finite lifetimes, dynamical evolution, and final-state interactions, complicating the identification of genuinel…

nucl-ex2026★ 1 cited

Selected highlights from STAR experiment

Jinhui Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Maowu Nie +13

In this paper, we review recent highlights in heavy-ion collisions and proton-proton collisions at top energies from STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) w…

nucl-ex2026★ 2 cited

Probing Late-Stage Hadronic Interactions at High Baryon Density via Production in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Program

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +360

A precision measurement of the meson yield is reported in Au+Au collisions at and using the high-statistic…

nucl-ex2025

Identified charged hadron production in Au+Au collisions at = 54.4 GeV with the STAR detector

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +360

We present results on the production of , , , and in Au+Au collisions at = 54.4~GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC, at midrap…

nucl-ex2025

Evidence of Spin-Interference Effects in Exclusive Photoproduction in Ultraperipheral Heavy-Ion Collisions

The STAR Collaboration

We report the first evidence of spin interference in exclusive photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions at STAR at ~GeV. In Au+A…

nucl-ex2025

Reducing Systematic Bias in Machine Learning Applications to Signal Extraction in High-Energy Nuclear Physics

Yan Wang, Rangrong Ma, Kaifeng Shen +2

Machine learning techniques are increasingly being applied in high-energy nuclear physics data analysis thanks to their outstanding performance. One key challenge in such applicati…

hep-ex2025

Study of Central Exclusive Production of , and Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at GeV with the STAR Detector at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +378

We report on the first measurement of the Central Exclusive Production process in proton-proton collisions: (where ) at the center-of-…

hep-ex2025

Measurement of transverse polarization of and hyperons inside jets in collisions at GeV

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +363

A surprisingly large transverse polarization of hyperons in unpolarized hadron-nucleon/nucleus collisions has been observed for 50 years, and the origin of this polarization re…

nucl-ex2025★ 3 cited

Observation of charmonium sequential suppression in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +370

We report measurements of charmonium sequential suppression in Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy…

hep-ex2025★ 4 cited

Energy Independence of the Collins Asymmetry in Collisions

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +367

The STAR experiment reports new, high-precision measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries for within jets, namely the Collins asymmetries, from transversely…

nucl-ex2025

Energy dependence of rescattering effect on vector mesons spin alignment at RHIC

Zihan Liu, Ziyang Li, Wangmei Zha +1

Spin alignment of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions provides a novel probe of quark polarization and hadronization mechanism in quark-gluon plasma. Hadronic rescattering may af…

hep-ph2025

Influence of the residual magnetic field on the azimuthal distribution of final-state particles in photon-nuclear processes

Zhan Zhang, Xin Wu, Xinbai Li +2

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, charged particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light, and their external electromagnetic fields can be effectively approximated as q…

nucl-ex2025

Measurement of inclusive production in Au+Au collisions at GeV at STAR

The STAR Collaboration

This article presents measurements of inclusive production at midrapidity ( 1.0) in Au+Au collisions at GeV with the STAR dete…

hep-ex2025★ 16 cited

Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement

The STAR Collaboration

The vacuum is now understood to possess a rich and complex structure, characterized by fluctuating energy fields and a condensate of virtual quark-antiquark pairs. The spontaneous…

hep-ph2025

Probing the Collision Geometry via Two-Photon Processes in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Jiaxuan Luo, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +4

The initial collision geometry, including the reaction plane, is crucial for interpreting collective phenomena in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, yet it remains experimentally i…

hep-ph2025

Calculations of Di-Hadron Production via Two-Photon Processes in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Luobing Wang, Xinbai Li, Zebo Tang +2

Two-photon processes in relativistic heavy-ion collisions have emerged as a critical probe of quantum electrodynamics in ultra-intense electromagnetic fields, with recent focus ext…

nucl-ex2025★ 4 cited

Probing Quantum Phenomena through Photoproduction in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

James Daniel Brandenburg, Spencer R. Klein, Zhangbu Xu +3

Photoproduction in ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions displays many unique features, often involving quantum mechanical coherence and two-source interference betwee…

nucl-ex2025★ 13 cited

Onset of Constituent Quark Number Scaling in Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +355

Partonic collectivity is one of the necessary signatures for the formation of quark-gluon plasma in high-energy nuclear collisions. Number of constituent quarks (NCQ) scaling has b…

nucl-ex2025★ 2 cited

Measurement of Kaon Directed Flow in Au+Au Collisions in the High Baryon Density Region

STAR Collaboration, B. E. Aboona, J. Adam +360

Rapidity-odd directed flow measurements are presented for and in AuAu collisions at = 3.0, 3.2, 3.5, and 3.9 GeV with the STAR exp…

hep-ph2025

Probing Gluon Shadowing in Heavy Nuclei through Bayesian Reweighting of J/ Photoproduction in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions

Pengzhong Lu, Zebo Tang, Xin Wu +1

The gluon distribution in nuclei plays a pivotal role in understanding quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme nuclear environments, yet remains poorly constrained compared to q…