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most citedHeavy Ion Collisions: The Big Picture, and the Big Questions

824 citations · 7.2k across the 77 of their papers we have counts for

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77 papers

nucl-ex2025

RHIC Program, Its Origin and Early Results

Wit Busza, John W. Harris, Shoji Nagamiya

At the Brookhaven National Laboratory, experimental efforts with heavy-ion accelerators started at the AGS synchrotron in 1984 and then at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC…

nucl-th2025

The Early History of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

W. Busza, W. A. Zajc

We present the historical antecedents to the field of relativistic heavy ion physics, beginning with early attempts to model the strong interaction and ending with the endorsement…

hep-ph2018★ 824 cited

Heavy Ion Collisions: The Big Picture, and the Big Questions

Wit Busza, Krishna Rajagopal, Wilke van der Schee

Heavy ion collisions quickly form a droplet of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) with a remarkably small viscosity. We give an accessible introduction to how to study this smallest and hott…

hep-ex2017★ 98 cited

Inclusive search for a highly boosted Higgs boson decaying to a bottom quark-antiquark pair

CMS Collaboration

An inclusive search for the standard model Higgs boson () produced with large transverse momentum () and decaying to a bottom quark-antiquark pair ($\math…

physics.ins-det2017★ 1 cited

Mechanical stability of the CMS strip tracker measured with a laser alignment system

CMS Collaboration

The CMS tracker consists of 206 square meters of silicon strip sensors assembled on carbon fibre composite structures and is designed for operation in the temperature range from -2…

nucl-ex2016★ 152 cited

Observation of charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in pPb collisions and its implication for the search for the chiral magnetic effect

CMS Collaboration

Charge-dependent azimuthal particle correlations with respect to the second-order event plane in pPb and PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV have…

hep-ex2016★ 642 cited

Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Improved jet energy scale corrections, based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 inverse-femtobarns collected by the CMS experiment in proton-proton…

hep-ex2016★ 128 cited

Search for narrow resonances in dijet final states at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the novel CMS technique of data scouting

CMS Collaboration

A search for narrow resonances decaying into dijet final states is performed on data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrat…

nucl-ex2015★ 9 cited

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),…

nucl-ex2015

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…

hep-ex2015★ 38 cited

Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks in the t-tau channel in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for pair production of third-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to top quark and tau lepton pairs is presented using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass e…

hep-ex2015★ 101 cited

Search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks using a matrix element method

CMS Collaboration

A search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a top-quark pair and decaying to bottom quarks is presented. Events with hadronic jets and one or two opposit…

hep-ex2014★ 74 cited

Search for new phenomena in monophoton final states in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Results are presented from a search for new physics in final states containing a photon and missing transverse momentum. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 inv…

hep-ex2014★ 140 cited

Study of vector boson scattering and search for new physics in events with two same-sign leptons and two jets

CMS Collaboration

A study of vector boson scattering in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.4 inverse femtob…

nucl-ex2014★ 120 cited

Long-range two-particle correlations of strange hadrons with charged particles in pPb and PbPb collisions at LHC energies

CMS Collaboration

Measurements of two-particle angular correlations between an identified strange hadron (K0S or Lambda/anti-Lambda) and a charged particle, emitted in pPb collisions, are presented…

hep-ex2014★ 68 cited

Search for new resonances decaying via WZ to leptons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is performed in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV for exotic particles decaying via WZ to fully leptonic final states with electrons, muons, and neutrinos. The d…

hep-ex2014★ 452 cited

Observation of the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson and measurement of its properties

CMS Collaboration

Observation of the diphoton decay mode of the recently discovered Higgs boson and measurement of some of its properties are reported. The analysis uses the entire dataset collected…

hep-ex2014★ 291 cited

Searches for electroweak production of charginos, neutralinos, and sleptons decaying to leptons and W, Z, and Higgs bosons in pp collisions at 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

Searches for the direct electroweak production of supersymmetric charginos, neutralinos, and sleptons in a variety of signatures with leptons and W, Z, and Higgs bosons are present…

hep-ex2014★ 81 cited

Search for top-squark pairs decaying into Higgs or Z bosons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search for supersymmetry through the direct pair production of top squarks, with Higgs (H) or Z bosons in the decay chain, is performed using a data sample of proton-proton colli…

hep-ex2012★ 50 cited

Search for new physics in events with opposite-sign leptons, jets, and missing transverse energy in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

CMS Collaboration

A search is presented for physics beyond the standard model (BSM) in final states with a pair of opposite-sign isolated leptons accompanied by jets and missing transverse energy. T…

nucl-ex2010★ 78 cited

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…

nucl-ex2009★ 12 cited

Lessons from PHOBOS

Wit Busza

In June 2005 the PHOBOS Collaboration completed data taking at RHIC. In five years of operation PHOBOS recorded information for Au+Au at = 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200…

nucl-ex2009★ 242 cited

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…

hep-ph2009★ 28 cited

Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD08)

J. Bartels, K. Borras, G. Gustafson +113

Proceedings of ISMD08