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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-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…

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…

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…

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…

nucl-ex2008★ 108 cited

System size dependence of cluster properties from two-particle angular correlations in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV

B. Alver

We present results on two-particle angular correlations in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at a center of mass energy per nucleon pair of 200 GeV over a broad range of pseudorapidity ($…

nucl-ex2008★ 5 cited

System size, energy, centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of charged-particle density in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC

PHOBOS Collaboration, G. I. Veres, B. Alver +66

Charged particle pseudorapidity distributions are presented from the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC, measured in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=19.6, 22.4, 62.4, 130 and 200 G…

nucl-ex2008★ 10 cited

Latest results from the PHOBOS experiment

Barbara Wosiek

Over the past years PHOBOS has continued to analyze the large datasets obtained from the first five runs of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Labora…

nucl-ex2008★ 5 cited

Energy and centrality dependence of particle production at very low transverse momenta in Au+Au collisions

Tomasz Gburek

The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has the unique capability of measuring particle production at very low transverse momenta. New results on low-transverse momentum invariant yields of…

nucl-ex2008★ 13 cited

System size dependence of two-particle angular correlations in p+p, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions

Wei Li

We present a systematic study of two-particle angular correlations in p+p, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions over a broad range of pseudorapidity and azimuthal angle. The PHOBOS detector…

nucl-ex2007

Recent Results from PHOBOS

Constantin Loizides

In this manuscript we give a short summary of recent physics results from PHOBOS. Particular emphasis is put on elliptic flow, fluctuations in the initial geometry and the recent m…

nucl-ex2007★ 277 cited

The Importance of Correlations and Fluctuations on the Initial Source Eccentricity in High-Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker +36

In this paper, we investigate various ways of defining the initial source eccentricity using the Monte Carlo Glauber (MCG) approach. In particular, we examine the participant eccen…

nucl-ex2007★ 2 cited

Elliptic Flow, Initial Eccentricity and Elliptic Flow fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC

Rachid Nouicer

We present measurements of elliptic flow and event-by-event fluctuations established by the PHOBOS experiment. Elliptic flow scaled by participant eccentricity is found to be simil…

nucl-ex2007★ 24 cited

Elliptic flow fluctuations in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Constantin Loizides

We present first results on event-by-event elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV obtained with the PHOBOS detector. Over the measured range in centrality, large…

nucl-ex2007★ 68 cited

Event-by-event fluctuations of azimuthal particle anisotropy in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

B. Alver

This paper presents the first measurement of event-by-event fluctuations of the elliptic flow parameter v_2 in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200GeV as a function of collision ce…

nucl-ex2007★ 18 cited

Elliptic Flow and Initial Eccentricity in Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

Rachid Nouicer

We present a systematic study of elliptic flow as a function of centrality, pseudorapidity, transverse momentum and energy for Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions from the PHOBOS experiment…

nucl-ex2006★ 349 cited

System Size, Energy, Pseudorapidity, and Centrality Dependence of Elliptic Flow

B. Alver

This paper presents measurements of the elliptic flow of charged particles as a function of pseudorapidity and centrality from Cu-Cu collisions at 62.4 and 200 GeV using the PHOBOS…

nucl-ex2006

A Method for Measuring Elliptic Flow Fluctuations in PHOBOS

B. Alver

We introduce an analysis method to measure elliptic flow (v_2) fluctuations using the PHOBOS detector for Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV. In this method, v_2 is determined e…

nucl-ex2006

Scaling Features of Selected Observables at RHIC

Constantin Loizides

We discuss several observables measured by PHOBOS that show common scaling features in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies. In particular, we examine the centrality and ene…

nucl-ex2006

Charged Particle Multiplicities in Ultra-relativistic Au+Au and Cu+Cu Collisions

B. B. Back

The PHOBOS collaboration has carried out a systematic study of charged particle multiplicities in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookh…

nucl-ex2006

System Size and Energy Dependence of Elliptic Flow

Alice C. Mignerey

The elliptic flow v2 is presented for the Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 and 200 GeV, as a function of pseudorapidity. Comparison to results for the Au+Au collisions at the…