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1. Constraints on Ultra Heavy Dark Matter Properties from Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with LHAASO Observations

Author: Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, della Volpe, D., Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, X. B., He, Y., Heller, M., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Saiz, A., Semikoz, D., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, K., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: In this work we try to search for signals generated by ultra-heavy dark matter at the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) data. We look for possible gamma-ray by dark matter annihilation or decay from 16 dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the field of view of LHAASO. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most promising targets for indirect detection of dark matter which have low fluxes of astrophysical $\gamma$-ray background while large amount of dark matter. By analyzing more than 700 days observational data at LHAASO, no significant dark matter signal from 1 TeV to 1 EeV is detected. Accordingly we derive the most stringent constraints on the ultra-heavy dark matter annihilation cross-section up to EeV. The constraints on the lifetime of dark matter in decay mode are also derived., Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures, accepted by PRL
Published: 2024

2. Data quality control system and long-term performance monitor of the LHAASO-KM2A

Author: Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., Axikegu, Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Bian, W., Bukevich, A. V., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, H. X., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, J. H., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, H., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., Hasan, M., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, Y., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Karpikov, I., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, C. M., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, S. D., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, D. B., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Luo, Q., Luo, Y., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, L. J., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, J. C., Qi, M. Y., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Raza, A., Ruffolo, D., Sáiz, A., Saeed, M., Semikoz, D., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, D. X., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Takata, J., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, R., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, Kai, Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, Q. W., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, D. R., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, C. Y., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, W. X., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zhao, X. H., Zheng, F., Zhong, W. J., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, B. Y., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., Zou, Y. C., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The KM2A is the largest sub-array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). It consists of 5216 electromagnetic particle detectors (EDs) and 1188 muon detectors (MDs). The data recorded by the EDs and MDs are used to reconstruct primary information of cosmic ray and gamma-ray showers. This information is used for physical analysis in gamma-ray astronomy and cosmic ray physics. To ensure the reliability of the LHAASO-KM2A data, a three-level quality control system has been established. It is used to monitor the status of detector units, stability of reconstructed parameters and the performance of the array based on observations of the Crab Nebula and Moon shadow. This paper will introduce the control system and its application on the LHAASO-KM2A data collected from August 2021 to July 2023. During this period, the pointing and angular resolution of the array were stable. From the observations of the Moon shadow and Crab Nebula, the results achieved using the two methods are consistent with each other. According to the observation of the Crab Nebula at energies from 25 TeV to 100 TeV, the time averaged pointing errors are estimated to be $-0.003^{\circ} \pm 0.005^{\circ}$ and $0.001^{\circ} \pm 0.006^{\circ}$ in the R.A. and Dec directions, respectively., Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2024

3. Discovery of Very-high-energy Gamma-ray Emissions from the Low Luminosity AGN NGC 4278 by LHAASO

Author: Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, X. B., He, Y., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Sáiz, A., Semikoz, D., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, K., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zheng, J. H., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., Zou, Y. C., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The first source catalog of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory reported the detection of a very-high-energy gamma ray source, 1LHAASO J1219+2915. In this paper a further detailed study of the spectral and temporal behavior of this point-like source have been carried. The best-fit position of the TeV source ($\rm{RA}=185.05^{\circ}\pm0.04^{\circ}$, $\rm{Dec}=29.25^{\circ}\pm0.03^{\circ}$) is compatible with NGC 4278 within $\sim0.03$ degree. Variation analysis shows an indication of the variability at a few months level in the TeV band, which is consistent with low frequency observations. Based on these observations, we report the detection of TeV $\gamma$-ray emissions from this low-luminosity AGN NGC 4278. The observations by LHAASO-WCDA during active period has a significance level of 8.8\,$\sigma$ with best-fit photon spectral index $\varGamma=2.56\pm0.14$ and a flux $f_{1-10\,\rm{TeV}}=(7.0\pm1.1_{\rm{sta}}\pm0.35_{\rm{syst}})\times10^{-13}\,\rm{photons\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$, or approximately $5\%$ of the Crab Nebula. The discovery of VHE from NGC 4278 indicates that the compact, weak radio jet can efficiently accelerate particles and emit TeV photons., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2024

4. Thermal stability and phase transformation of $\alpha$-, $\kappa(\epsilon)$-, and $\gamma$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ thin films to $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ under various ambient conditions

Author: Tang, J., Jiang, K., Tseng, P., Kurchin, R. C., Porter, L. M., and Davis, R. F.
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Physics - Applied Physics
Abstract: Phase transitions in metastable $\alpha$-, $\kappa(\epsilon)$-, and $\gamma$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ films to thermodynamically stable $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ during annealing in air, N$_2$, and vacuum have been systematically investigated via in-situ high-temperature X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. These respective polymorphs exhibited thermal stability to around 471-525$^\circ$C, 773-825$^\circ$C, and 490-575$^\circ$C before transforming into $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$, across all tested ambient conditions. Particular crystallographic orientation relationships were observed before and after the phase transitions, i.e., (0006) $\alpha$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ $\parallel$ $(\overline{4}02)$ $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$, (004) $\kappa(\epsilon)$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ $\parallel$ (310) and $(\overline{4}02)$ $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$, and (400) $\gamma$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ $\parallel$ (400) $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$. The phase transition of $\alpha$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ to $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ resulted in catastrophic damage to the film and upheaval of the surface. The respective primary and possibly secondary causes of this damage are the +8.6% volume expansion and the dual displacive and reconstructive transformations that occur during this transition. The $\kappa(\epsilon)$- and $\gamma$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ films converted to $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ via singular reconstructive transformations with small changes in volume and unchanged surface microstructures., Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Published: 2024

5. LHAASO-KM2A detector simulation using Geant4

Author: Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, X. B., He, Y., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Sáiz, A., Semikoz, D., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, K., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zheng, J. H., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: KM2A is one of the main sub-arrays of LHAASO, working on gamma ray astronomy and cosmic ray physics at energies above 10 TeV. Detector simulation is the important foundation for estimating detector performance and data analysis. It is a big challenge to simulate the KM2A detector in the framework of Geant4 due to the need to track numerous photons from a large number of detector units (>6000) with large altitude difference (30 m) and huge coverage (1.3 km^2). In this paper, the design of the KM2A simulation code G4KM2A based on Geant4 is introduced. The process of G4KM2A is optimized mainly in memory consumption to avoid memory overffow. Some simpliffcations are used to signiffcantly speed up the execution of G4KM2A. The running time is reduced by at least 30 times compared to full detector simulation. The particle distributions and the core/angle resolution comparison between simulation and experimental data of the full KM2A array are also presented, which show good agreement.
Published: 2024
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6. Measurements of All-Particle Energy Spectrum and Mean Logarithmic Mass of Cosmic Rays from 0.3 to 30 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A

Author: The LHAASO Collaboration, Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, A., Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, della Volpe, D., Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, X. B., He, Y., Heller, M., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Sáiz, A., Semikoz, D., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, K., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the measurements of all-particle energy spectrum and mean logarithmic mass of cosmic rays in the energy range of 0.3-30 PeV using data collected from LHAASO-KM2A between September 2021 and December 2022, which is based on a nearly composition-independent energy reconstruction method, achieving unprecedented accuracy. Our analysis reveals the position of the knee at $3.67 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.15$ PeV. Below the knee, the spectral index is found to be -$2.7413 \pm 0.0004 \pm 0.0050$, while above the knee, it is -$3.128 \pm 0.005 \pm 0.027$, with the sharpness of the transition measured with a statistical error of 2%. The mean logarithmic mass of cosmic rays is almost heavier than helium in the whole measured energy range. It decreases from 1.7 at 0.3 PeV to 1.3 at 3 PeV, representing a 24% decline following a power law with an index of -$0.1200 \pm 0.0003 \pm 0.0341$. This is equivalent to an increase in abundance of light components. Above the knee, the mean logarithmic mass exhibits a power law trend towards heavier components, which is reversal to the behavior observed in the all-particle energy spectrum. Additionally, the knee position and the change in power-law index are approximately the same. These findings suggest that the knee observed in the all-particle spectrum corresponds to the knee of the light component, rather than the medium-heavy components., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2024
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7. Characteristics of Branched Flows of High-Current Relativistic Electron Beams in Porous Materials

Author: Jiang, K., Huang, T. W., Li, R., and Zhou, C. T.
Subjects: Physics - Plasma Physics, Nonlinear Sciences - Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract: Branched flow is a universal phenomenon in which treebranch-like filaments form through traveling waves or particle flows in irregular mediums. Branched flow of high-current relativistic electron beams (REBs) has been recently discovered [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{130}, 185001 (2023)]. It exhibits unique features, including remarkably high beam density at predictable caustic locations, efficient energy coupling between the beam and background medium, etc. This paper presents investigations on REB branching, focusing on the influence of interaction parameters on branching patterns and providing detailed analyses of the dynamics of individual beam electrons. The insights gained contribute to a nuanced understanding of the intricate nature of REB branching and its potential applications in the future., Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2023

8. Does or did the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A operate as a PeVatron?

Author: Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, della Volpe, D., Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, X. B., He, Y., Heller, M., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Sáiz, A., Semikoz, D., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, K., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo., X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: For decades, supernova remnants (SNRs) have been considered the prime sources of Galactic Cosmic rays (CRs). But whether SNRs can accelerate CR protons to PeV energies and thus dominate CR flux up to the knee is currently under intensive theoretical and phenomenological debate. The direct test of the ability of SNRs to operate as CR PeVatrons can be provided by ultrahigh-energy (UHE; $E_\gamma \geq 100$~TeV) $\gamma$-rays. In this context, the historical SNR Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is considered one of the most promising target for UHE observations. This paper presents the observation of Cas A and its vicinity by the LHAASO KM2A detector. The exceptional sensitivity of LHAASO KM2A in the UHE band, combined with the young age of Cas A, enabled us to derive stringent model-independent limits on the energy budget of UHE protons and nuclei accelerated by Cas A at any epoch after the explosion. The results challenge the prevailing paradigm that Cas A-type SNRs are major suppliers of PeV CRs in the Milky Way., Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, Accepted by the APJL
Published: 2023

9. Atomic-scale investigation of $\gamma$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ deposited on MgAl$_2$O$_4$ and its relationship with $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$

Author: Tang, J., Jiang, K., Xu, C., Cabral, M. J., Xiao, K., Porter, L. M., and Davis, R. F.
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Physics - Applied Physics
Abstract: Nominally phase-pure $\gamma$-$Ga_2O_3$ was deposited on (100) $MgAl_2O_4$ within a narrow temperature window centered at $\sim$470 $^{\circ}$C using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The film deposited at 440 $^{\circ}$C exhibited either poor crystallization or an amorphous structure; the film grown at 500 $^{\circ}$C contained both $\beta$-$Ga_2O_3$ and $\gamma$-$Ga_2O_3$. A nominally phase-pure $\beta$-$Ga_2O_3$ film was obtained at 530 $^{\circ}$C. Atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) investigations of the $\gamma$-$Ga_2O_3$ film grown at 470 $^{\circ}$C revealed a high density of antiphase boundaries. A planar defect model developed for $\gamma$-$Al_2O_3$ was extended to explain the stacking sequences of the Ga sublattice observed in the STEM images of $\gamma$-$Ga_2O_3$. The presence of the 180$^{\circ}$ rotational domains and 90$^{\circ}$ rotational domains of $\beta$-$Ga_2O_3$ inclusions within the $\gamma$-$Ga_2O_3$ matrix is discussed within the context of a comprehensive investigation of the epitaxial relationship between those two phases in the as-grown film at 470 $^{\circ}$C and the same film annealed at 600 $^{\circ}$C. The results led to the hypotheses that (i) incorporation of certain dopants including Si, Ge, Sn, Mg, Al, and Sc, into $\beta$-$Ga_2O_3$, locally stabilizes the "$\gamma$-phase" and (ii) the site preference(s) for these dopants promotes the formation of the "$\gamma$-phase" and/or $\gamma$-$Ga_2O_3$ solid solutions. However, in the absence of such dopants, pure $\gamma$-$Ga_2O_3$ remains the least stable $Ga_2O_3$ polymorph, as indicated by its very narrow growth window, lower growth temperatures relative to other $Ga_2O_3$ polymorphs, and the largest calculated difference in Helmholtz free energy per formula unit between $\gamma$-$Ga_2O_3$ and $\beta$-$Ga_2O_3$ than all other polymorphs., Comment: The following article has been submitted to APL Materials
Published: 2023

10. Very high energy gamma-ray emission beyond 10 TeV from GRB 221009A

Author: Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, A., Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, della Volpe, D., Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, X. B., He, Y., Heller, M., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Sáiz, A., Semikoz, D., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, K., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The highest energy gamma-rays from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have important implications for their radiation mechanism. Here we report for the first time the detection of gamma-rays up to 13 TeV from the brightest GRB 221009A by the Large High Altitude Air-shower Observatory (LHAASO). The LHAASO-KM2A detector registered more than 140 gamma-rays with energies above 3 TeV during 230$-$900s after the trigger. The intrinsic energy spectrum of gamma-rays can be described by a power-law after correcting for extragalactic background light (EBL) absorption. Such a hard spectrum challenges the synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) scenario of relativistic electrons for the afterglow emission above several TeV. Observations of gamma-rays up to 13 TeV from a source with a measured redshift of z=0.151 hints more transparency in intergalactic space than previously expected. Alternatively, one may invoke new physics such as Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) or an axion origin of very high energy (VHE) signals., Comment: 49pages, 11figures
Published: 2023
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11. Nanodelivery Optimization of IDO1 Inhibitors in Tumor Immunotherapy: Challenges and Strategies

Author: Jiang K, Wang Q, Chen XL, Wang X, Gu X, Feng S, Wu J, Shang H, Ba X, Zhang Y, and Tang K
Subjects: indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1, ido1, ido1 inhibitors, nanodrugs, nanodelivery, cancer immunotherapy, combination therapy, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Kehua Jiang,1 Qing Wang,1 Xiao-Long Chen,1 Xiaodong Wang,1 Xiaoya Gu,1 Shuangshuang Feng,1 Jian Wu,2 Haojie Shang,2 Xiaozhuo Ba,2 Yanlong Zhang,1 Kun Tang2 1Department of Urology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Yanlong Zhang, Department of Urology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang, Guizhou, People’s Republic of China, Email ylzhang3030@163.com Kun Tang, Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095, Jiefang Avenue, Qiaokou District, Wuhan, 430030, People’s Republic of China, Email tangsk1990@163.comAbstract: Tryptophan (Trp) metabolism plays a vital role in cancer immunity. Indoleamine 2.3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1), is a crucial enzyme in the metabolic pathway by which Trp is degraded to kynurenine (Kyn). IDO1-mediated Trp metabolites can inhibit tumor immunity and facilitate immune evasion by cancer cells; thus, targeting IDO1 is a potential tumor immunotherapy strategy. Recently, numerous IDO1 inhibitors have been introduced into clinical trials as immunotherapeutic agents for cancer treatment. However, drawbacks such as low oral bioavailability, slow onset of action, and high toxicity are associated with these drugs. With the continuous development of nanotechnology, medicine is gradually entering an era of precision healthcare. Nanodrugs carried by inorganic, lipid, and polymer nanoparticles (NPs) have shown great potential for tumor therapy, providing new ways to overcome tumor diversity and improve therapeutic efficacy. Compared to traditional drugs, nanomedicines offer numerous significant advantages, including a prolonged half-life, low toxicity, targeted delivery, and responsive release. Moreover, based on the physicochemical properties of these nanomaterials (eg, photothermal, ultrasonic response, and chemocatalytic properties), various combination therapeutic strategies have been developed to synergize the effects of IDO1 inhibitors and enhance their anticancer efficacy. This review is an overview of the mechanism by which the Trp-IDO1-Kyn pathway acts in tumor immune escape. The classification of IDO1 inhibitors, their clinical applications, and barriers for translational development are discussed, the use of IDO1 inhibitor-based nanodrug delivery systems as combination therapy strategies is summarized, and the issues faced in their clinical application are elucidated. We expect that this review will provide guidance for the development of IDO1 inhibitor-based nanoparticle nanomedicines that can overcome the limitations of current treatments, improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy, and lead to new breakthroughs in the field of cancer immunotherapy.Keywords: indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1, IDO1, IDO1 inhibitors, nanodrugs, nanodelivery, cancer immunotherapy, combination therapy
Published: 2024

12. The First LHAASO Catalog of Gamma-Ray Sources

Author: Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, della Volpe, D., Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, X. B., He, Y., Heller, M., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Sáiz, A., Semikoz, D., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, K., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo., X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: We present the first catalog of very-high energy and ultra-high energy gamma-ray sources detected by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). The catalog was compiled using 508 days of data collected by the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) from March 2021 to September 2022 and 933 days of data recorded by the Kilometer Squared Array (KM2A) from January 2020 to September 2022. This catalog represents the main result from the most sensitive large coverage gamma-ray survey of the sky above 1 TeV, covering declination from $-$20$^{\circ}$ to 80$^{\circ}$. In total, the catalog contains 90 sources with an extended size smaller than $2^\circ$ and a significance of detection at $> 5\sigma$. Based on our source association criteria, 32 new TeV sources are proposed in this study. Among the 90 sources, 43 sources are detected with ultra-high energy ($E > 100$ TeV) emission at $> 4\sigma$ significance level. We provide the position, extension, and spectral characteristics of all the sources in this catalog., Comment: 40 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2023
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13. Measurement of ultra-high-energy diffuse gamma-ray emission of the Galactic plane from 10 TeV to 1 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A

Author: Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Q., Cao, W. Y., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, A. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Lin, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, M. Y., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, della Volpe, D., Dong, X. Q., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gabici, S., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Giacinti, G., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. Y., He, X. B., He, Y., Heller, M., Hor, Y. K., Hou, B. W., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S. C., Huang, D. H., Huang, T. Q., Huang, W. J., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, X. W., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Kurinov, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, D., Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Mu, H. J., Nan, Y. C., Neronov, A., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Saiz, A., Semikoz, D., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shu, F. W., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Q. W., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, C., Wang, C. B., Wang, G. W., Wang, H. G., Wang, H. H., Wang, J. C., Wang, K., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, P. H., Wang, R., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., Wu, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. F., Xu, R. X., Xu, W. L., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yan, T., Yang, C. W., Yang, F., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zha, M., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, M., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission, mainly produced via interactions between cosmic rays and the interstellar medium and/or radiation field, is a very important probe of the distribution, propagation, and interaction of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. In this work we report the measurements of diffuse $\gamma$-rays from the Galactic plane between 10 TeV and 1 PeV energies, with the square kilometer array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). Diffuse emissions from the inner ($15^{\circ}10$~TeV). The energy spectrum in the inner Galaxy regions can be described by a power-law function with an index of $-2.99\pm0.04$, which is different from the curved spectrum as expected from hadronic interactions between locally measured cosmic rays and the line-of-sight integrated gas content. Furthermore, the measured flux is higher by a factor of $\sim3$ than the prediction. A similar spectrum with an index of $-2.99\pm0.07$ is found in the outer Galaxy region, and the absolute flux for $10\lesssim E\lesssim60$ TeV is again higher than the prediction for hadronic cosmic ray interactions. The latitude distributions of the diffuse emission are consistent with the gas distribution, while the longitude distributions show clear deviation from the gas distribution. The LHAASO measurements imply that either additional emission sources exist or cosmic ray intensities have spatial variations., Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables; accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters; source mask file provided as ancillary file
Published: 2023
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14. Branching of high-current relativistic electron beam in porous materials

Author: Jiang, K., Huang, T. W., Li, R., Yu, M. Y., Zhuo, H. B., Wu, S. Z., Zhou, C. T., and Ruan, S. C.
Subjects: Physics - Plasma Physics, Physics - Computational Physics
Abstract: Propagation of high-current relativistic electron beam (REB) in plasma is relevant to many high-energy astrophysical phenomena as well as applications based on high-intensity lasers and charged-particle beams. Here we report a new regime of beam-plasma interaction arising from REB propagation in medium with fine structures. In this regime, the REB cascades into thin branches with local density hundred times the initial value and deposits its energy two orders of magnitude more efficiently than that in homogeneous plasma, where REB branching does not occur, of similar average density. Such beam branching can be attributed to successive weak scatterings of the beam electrons by the unevenly distributed magnetic fields induced by the local return currents in the skeletons of the porous medium. Results from a model for the excitation conditions and location of the first branching point with respect to the medium and beam parameters agree well with that from pore-resolved particle-in-cell simulations., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2023
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15. Coherent subcycle optical shock from superluminal plasma wake

Author: Peng, H., Huang, T. W., Jiang, K., Li, R., Wu, C. N., Yu, M. Y., Riconda, C., Weber, S., Zhou, C. T., and Ruan, S. C.
Subjects: Physics - Plasma Physics
Abstract: We propose a new mechanism for generating coherent subcycle optical pulse by directing a relativistic electron beam (REB) into a plasma with a density up-ramp. The subcycle pulse is coherently emitted by bubble-sheath electrons in REB-induced superluminal plasma wake. Using three-dimensional particle-in-cell and far-field time-domain radiation simulations as well as analytical modeling, we show that an isolated subcycle optical shock can be produced at the Cherenkov angle. This radiation has ultra-short attosecond-scale duration and high intensity and exhibits excellent directionality with ultra-low angular divergence and stable carrier envelope phase. Its central frequency can be easily tuned over a wide range, from the far-infrared to the ultra-violet, by adjusting the plasma and driver-beam density., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2023

16. Spin-phonon coupling driven Charge density wave in a Kagome Magnet

Author: Miao, H., Zhang, T. T., Li, H. X., Fabbris, G., Said, A. H., Tartaglia, R., Yilmaz, T., Vescovo, E., Yin, J. -X., Murakami, S., Feng, L. X., Jiang, K., Wu, X. L., Wang, A. F., Okamoto, S., Wang, Y. L., and Lee, H. N.
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract: The intertwining between spin, charge, and lattice degrees of freedom can give rise to unusual macroscopic quantum states, including high-temperature superconductivity and quantum anomalous Hall effects. Recently, a charge density wave (CDW) is observed in the kagome antiferromagnet FeGe, indicative of possible intertwining physics. An outstanding question is that whether magnetic correlation is fundamental for the spontaneous spatial symmetry breaking orders. Here, utilizing elastic and high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering, we discover a charge dimerization superlattice that coexists with the 2$\times$2$\times$1 CDW in the kagome sublattice. Most interestingly, between the magnetic and CDW transition temperature, the phonon dynamical structure factor shows a giant phonon-energy hardening and a substantial phonon linewidth broadening near the charge-dimerization wavevectors, both signaling the spin-phonon coupling. By first principles calculations, we show that both the static and dynamic spin excitations intertwine with the phonon to drive the spatial symmetry breaking., Comment: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request
Published: 2022
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17. $K^{*0}$ production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV from RHIC beam energy scan

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, D. M., Aschenauer, E. C., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Brandenburg, J. D., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Cheng, Y., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Dale-Gau, G., Daugherity, M., Deppner, I. M., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Jin, C., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., McNamara, G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M. I., Nain, A. S., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Pani, T., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Protzman, T., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qin, Z., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Chowdhury, P. Roy, Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seck, F-J., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shen, K., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, C., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tsang, C. Y., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wielanek, D., Wieman, H., Wilks, G., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, X., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yan, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the measurement of $K^{*0}$ meson at midrapidity ($|y|<$ 1.0) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$~=~7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV collected by the STAR experiment during the RHIC beam energy scan (BES) program. The transverse momentum spectra, yield, and average transverse momentum of $K^{*0}$ are presented as functions of collision centrality and beam energy. The $K^{*0}/K$ yield ratios are presented for different collision centrality intervals and beam energies. The $K^{*0}/K$ ratio in heavy-ion collisions are observed to be smaller than that in small system collisions (e+e and p+p). The $K^{*0}/K$ ratio follows a similar centrality dependence to that observed in previous RHIC and LHC measurements. The data favor the scenario of the dominance of hadronic re-scattering over regeneration for $K^{*0}$ production in the hadronic phase of the medium., Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2022
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18. Higher-Order Cumulants and Correlation Functions of Proton Multiplicity Distributions in $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions at the RHIC STAR Experiment

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, D. M., Aschenauer, E. C., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Brandenburg, J. D., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Calderón~de~la~Barca~Sánchez, M., Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Cheng, Y., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Deppner, I. M., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Jin, C., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., McNamara, G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M. I., Nain, A. S., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Pani, T., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Protzman, T., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qin, Z., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Chowdhury, P. Roy, Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seck, F-J., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shen, K., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, C., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tsang, C. Y., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wielanek, D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, X., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yan, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We report a measurement of cumulants and correlation functions of event-by-event proton multiplicity distributions from fixed-target Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 3 GeV measured by the STAR experiment. Protons are identified within the rapidity ($y$) and transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) region $-0.9 < y<0$ and $0.4 < p_{\rm T} <2.0 $ GeV/$c$ in the center-of-mass frame. A systematic analysis of the proton cumulants and correlation functions up to sixth-order as well as the corresponding ratios as a function of the collision centrality, $p_{\rm T}$, and $y$ are presented. The effect of pileup and initial volume fluctuations on these observables and the respective corrections are discussed in detail. The results are compared to calculations from the hadronic transport UrQMD model as well as a hydrodynamic model. In the most central 5\% collisions, the value of proton cumulant ratio $C_4/C_2$ is negative, drastically different from the values observed in Au+Au collisions at higher energies. Compared to model calculations including Lattice QCD, a hadronic transport model, and a hydrodynamic model, the strong suppression in the ratio of $C_4/C_2$ at 3 GeV Au+Au collisions indicates an energy regime dominated by hadronic interactions., Comment: 25 pages, 20 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2022
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19. Pion, kaon, and (anti-)proton production in U+U Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 193 GeV measured with the STAR detector

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbaev, A., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Atchison, J., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chan, B. K., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Hoffman, E., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Jin, C., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Kimelman, B., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Korobitsin, A. A., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Manukhov, S. L., Margetis, S., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., McNamara, G., Minaev, N. G., Mishra, D., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Nagy, M. I., Nain, A. S., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Paul, A., Perkins, C., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qin, Z., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Rogachevsky, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Chowdhury, P. Roy, Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Samigullin, E., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shen, K., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sun, C., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Tsai, O. D., Tsang, C. Y., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vasiliev, A. N., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wielanek, D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yan, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We present the first measurements of transverse momentum spectra of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p(\bar{p})$ at midrapidity ($|y| < 0.1$) in U+U collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 193 GeV with the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The centrality dependence of particle yields, average transverse momenta, particle ratios and kinetic freeze-out parameters are discussed. The results are compared with the published results from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 200 GeV in STAR. The results are also compared to those from A Multi Phase Transport (AMPT) model., Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures and 7 tables; Replaced with the updated version published in Physical Review C
Published: 2022
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20. Direct observation of quantum anomalous vortex in Fe(Se,Te)

Author: Lin, Y. S., Wang, S. Y., Zhang, X., Feng, Y., Pan, Y. P., Ru, H., Zhu, J. J., Xiang, B. K., Liu, K., Zheng, C. L., Wei, L. Y., Wang, M. X., Liu, Z. K., Chen, L., Jiang, K., Guo, Y. F., Wang, Ziqiang, and Wang, Y. H.
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract: Vortices are topological defects of type-II superconductors in an external magnetic field. In a similar fashion to a quantum anomalous Hall insulator, quantum anomalous vortex (QAV) spontaneously nucleates due to orbital-and-spin exchange interaction between vortex core states and magnetic impurity moment, breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) of the vortex without an external field. Here, we used scanning superconducting quantum interference device microscopy (sSQUID) to search for its signatures in iron-chalcogenide superconductor Fe(Se,Te). Under zero magnetic field, we found a stochastic distribution of isolated anomalous vortices and antivortices with flux quanta $\Phi_0$. By applying a small local magnetic field under the coil of the nano-SQUID device, we observed hysteretic flipping of the vortices reminiscent of the switching of ferromagnetic domains, suggesting locally broken-TRS. We further showed vectorial rotation of a flux line linking a paired vortex-antivortex with the local field. These unique properties of the anomalous vortices satisfied the defining criteria of QAV. Our observation suggests a quantum vortex phase with spontaneous broken-TRS in a high-temperature superconductor.
Published: 2022
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21. Flux Variations of Cosmic Ray Air Showers Detected by LHAASO-KM2A During a Thunderstorm on 10 June 2021

Author: LHAASO Collaboration, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, Bai, L. X., Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, J. T., Cao, Zhe, Cao, Zhen, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, E. S., Chen, Liang, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, X. J., Chen, Y., Cheng, H. L., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, della Volpe, D., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fan, Z. X., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, X. T., Feng, Y. L., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Gao, W. K., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Gu, F. L., Guo, J. G., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, S. L., He, X. B., He, Y., Heller, M., Hor, Y. K., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, Q., Hu, S., Hu, S. C., Hu, X. J., Huang, D. H., Huang, W. H., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jia, K., Jiang, K., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, M., Kang, M. M., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, J., Li, Jian, Li, Jie, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. S., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Long, W. J., Lu, R., Luo, Q., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Masood, A., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Nan, Y. C., Ou, Z. W., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Sáiz, A., Shao, C. Y., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shi, J. Y., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, B. D., Wang, C., Wang, H., Wang, H. G., Wang, J. C., Wang, J. S., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, R., Wang, R. N., Wang, W., Wang, X. G., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Y. P., Wang, Z. H. Wang. Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, X. F., W, Y. S., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xiong, Z., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. X., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yang, C. W., Yang, F. F., Yang, H. W., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, H., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zeng, Z. K., Zha, M., Zhai, X. X., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, F., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, Lu, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. B., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zheng, Y., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has three sub-arrays, KM2A, WCDA and WFCTA. The flux variations of cosmic ray air showers were studied by analyzing the KM2A data during the thunderstorm on 10 June 2021. The number of shower events that meet the trigger conditions increases significantly in atmospheric electric fields, with maximum fractional increase of 20%. The variations of trigger rates (increases or decreases) are found to be strongly dependent on the primary zenith angle. The flux of secondary particles increases significantly, following a similar trend with that of the shower events. To better understand the observed behavior, Monte Carlo simulations are performed with CORSIKA and G4KM2A (a code based on GEANT4). We find that the experimental data (in saturated negative fields) are in good agreement with simulations, assuming the presence of a uniform upward electric field of 700 V/cm with a thickness of 1500 m in the atmosphere above the observation level. Due to the acceleration/deceleration and deflection by the atmospheric electric field, the number of secondary particles with energy above the detector threshold is modified, resulting in the changes in shower detection rate., Comment: 18 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2022
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22. A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean

Author: Ye, Z. P., Hu, F., Tian, W., Chang, Q. C., Chang, Y. L., Cheng, Z. S., Gao, J., Ge, T., Gong, G. H., Guo, J., Guo, X. X., He, X. G., Huang, J. T., Jiang, K., Jiang, P. K., Jing, Y. P., Li, H. L., Li, J. L., Li, L., Li, W. L., Li, Z., Liao, N. Y., Lin, Q., Liu, F., Liu, J. L., Liu, X. H., Miao, P., Mo, C., Morton-Blake, I., Peng, T., Sun, Z. Y., Tang, J. N., Tang, Z. B., Tao, C. H., Tian, X. L., Wang, M. X., Wang, Y., Wei, H. D., Wei, Z. Y., Wu, W. H., Xian, S. S., Xiang, D., Xu, D. L., Xue, Q., Yang, J. H., Yang, J. M., Yu, W. B., Zeng, C., Zhang, F. Y. D., Zhang, T., Zhang, X. T., Zhang, Y. Y., Zhi, W., Zhong, Y. S., Zhou, M., Zhu, X. H., and Zhuang, G. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Next-generation neutrino telescopes with significantly improved sensitivity are required to pinpoint the sources of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux detected by IceCube and uncover the century-old puzzle of cosmic ray origins. A detector near the equator will provide a unique viewpoint of the neutrino sky, complementing IceCube and other neutrino telescopes in the Northern Hemisphere. Here we present results from an expedition to the north-eastern region of the South China Sea, in the western Pacific Ocean. A favorable neutrino telescope site was found on an abyssal plain at a depth of $\sim$ 3.5km. At depths below 3km, the sea current speed, water absorption and scattering lengths for Cherenkov light, were measured to be $v_{\mathrm{c}}<$10cm/s, $\lambda_{\mathrm{abs} }\simeq$ 27m and $\lambda_{\mathrm{sca} }\simeq$ 63m, respectively. Accounting for these measurements, we present the design and expected performance of a next-generation neutrino telescope, TRopIcal DEep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT). With its advanced photon-detection technology and large dimensions, TRIDENT expects to observe the IceCube steady source candidate NGC 1068 with 5$\sigma$ significance within 1 year of operation. This level of sensitivity will open a new arena for diagnosing the origin of cosmic rays and probing fundamental physics over astronomical baselines., Comment: 34 pages,12 figures. Correspondence should be addressed to D. L. Xu: donglianxu@sjtu.edu.cn
Published: 2022

23. Measurement of $\rm ^4_{\Lambda}H$ and $\rm ^4_{\Lambda}He$ binding energy in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 3 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, D. M., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Brandenburg, J. D., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Deppner, I. M., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Jin, C., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nain, A. S., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L. S., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qin, Z., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Chowdhury, P. Roy, Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F-J., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shen, K., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tsang, C. Y., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wielanek, D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of mass and $\Lambda$ binding energy of $\rm ^4_{\Lambda}H$ and $\rm ^4_{\Lambda}He$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=3$ GeV are presented, with an aim to address the charge symmetry breaking (CSB) problem in hypernuclei systems with atomic number A = 4. The $\Lambda$ binding energies are measured to be $\rm 2.22\pm0.06(stat.) \pm0.14(syst.)$ MeV and $\rm 2.38\pm0.13(stat.) \pm0.12(syst.)$ MeV for $\rm ^4_{\Lambda}H$ and $\rm ^4_{\Lambda}He$, respectively. The measured $\Lambda$ binding-energy difference is $\rm 0.16\pm0.14(stat.)\pm0.10(syst.)$ MeV for ground states. Combined with the $\gamma$-ray transition energies, the binding-energy difference for excited states is $\rm -0.16\pm0.14(stat.)\pm0.10(syst.)$ MeV, which is negative and comparable to the value of the ground states within uncertainties. These new measurements on the $\Lambda$ binding-energy difference in A = 4 hypernuclei systems are consistent with the theoretical calculations that result in $\rm \Delta B_{\Lambda}^4(1_{exc}^{+})\approx -\Delta B_{\Lambda}^4(0_{g.s.}^{+})<0$ and present a new method for the study of CSB effect using relativistic heavy-ion collisions., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2022
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24. Azimuthal transverse single-spin asymmetries of inclusive jets and identified hadrons within jets from polarized $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, D. M., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Brandenburg, J. D., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Deppner, I. M., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Jin, C., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nain, A. S., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L. S., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qin, Z., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Chowdhury, P. Roy, Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F-J., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shen, K., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tsang, C. Y., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wielanek, D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of the transverse single-spin asymmetries, $A_N$, for inclusive jets and identified `hadrons within jets' production at midrapidity from transversely polarized $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV, based on data recorded in 2012 and 2015. The inclusive jet asymmetry measurements include $A_N$ for inclusive jets and $A_N$ for jets containing a charged pion carrying a momentum fraction $z>0.3$ of the jet momentum. The identified hadron within jet asymmetry measurements include the Collins effect for charged pions, kaons and protons, and the Collins-like effect for charged pions. The measured asymmetries are determined for several distinct kinematic regions, characterized by the jet transverse momentum $p_{T}$ and pseudorapidity $\eta$, as well as the hadron momentum fraction $z$ and momentum transverse to the jet axis $j_{T}$. These results probe higher momentum scales ($Q^{2}$ up to $\sim$\,900 GeV$^{2}$) than current, semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering measurements, and they provide new constraints on quark transversity in the proton and enable tests of evolution, universality and factorization breaking in the transverse-momentum-dependent formalism., Comment: 24 pages, 24 figures, Accepted by PRD
Published: 2022
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25. Azimuthal anisotropy measurement of (multi-)strange hadrons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}$ = 54.4 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, D. M., Aschenauer, E. C., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Brandenburg, J. D., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Calderón~de~la~Barca~Sánchez, M., Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Deppner, I. M., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Jin, C., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., McNamara, G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M. I., Nain, A. S., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qin, Z., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Chowdhury, P. Roy, Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seck, F-J., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shen, K., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, C., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tsang, C. Y., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wielanek, D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yan, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Azimuthal anisotropy of produced particles is one of the most important observables used to access the collective properties of the expanding medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this paper, we present second ($v_{2}$) and third ($v_{3}$) order azimuthal anisotropies of $K_{S}^{0}$, $\phi$, $\Lambda$, $\Xi$ and $\Omega$ at mid-rapidity ($|y|<$1) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}$ = 54.4 GeV measured by the STAR detector. The $v_{2}$ and $v_{3}$ are measured as a function of transverse momentum and centrality. Their energy dependence is also studied. $v_{3}$ is found to be more sensitive to the change in the center-of-mass energy than $v_{2}$. Scaling by constituent quark number is found to hold for $v_{2}$ within 10%. This observation could be evidence for the development of partonic collectivity in 54.4 GeV Au+Au collisions. Differences in $v_{2}$ and $v_{3}$ between baryons and anti-baryons are presented, and ratios of $v_{3}$/$v_{2}^{3/2}$ are studied and motivated by hydrodynamical calculations. The ratio of $v_{2}$ of $\phi$ mesons to that of anti-protons ($v_{2}(\phi)/v_{2}(\bar{p})$) shows centrality dependence at low transverse momentum, presumably resulting from the larger effects from hadronic interactions on anti-proton $v_{2}$., Comment: 12 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2022
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26. Two-particle correlations on transverse rapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=200$ GeV at STAR

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbaev, A., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Korobitsin, A., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Manukhov, S. L., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oldag, E. W., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Samigullin, E., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Two-particle correlation measurements projected onto two-dimensional, transverse rapidity coordinates ($y_{T1},y_{T2}$), allow access to dynamical properties of the QCD medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions that angular correlation measurements are not sensitive to. We report non-identified charged-particle correlations for Au + Au minimum-bias collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV taken by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). Correlations are presented as 2D functions of transverse rapidity for like-sign, unlike-sign and all charged-particle pairs, as well as for particle pairs whose relative azimuthal angles lie on the near-side, the away-side, or at all relative azimuth. The correlations are constructed using charged particles with transverse momentum $p_T \geq 0.15$ GeV/$c$, pseudorapidity from $-$1 to 1, and azimuthal angles from $-\pi$ to $\pi$. The significant correlation structures that are observed evolve smoothly with collision centrality. The major correlation features include a saddle shape plus a broad peak with maximum near $y_T \approx 3$, corresponding to $p_T \approx$ 1.5 GeV/$c$. The broad peak is observed in both like- and unlike-sign charge combinations and in near- and away-side relative azimuthal angles. The all-charge, all-azimuth correlation measurements are compared with the theoretical predictions of {\sc hijing} and {\sc epos}. The results indicate that the correlations for peripheral to mid-central collisions can be approximately described as a superposition of nucleon + nucleon collisions with minimal effects from the QCD medium. Strong medium effects are indicated in mid- to most-central collisions.
Published: 2022

27. Pattern of Global Spin Alignment of $\phi$ and $K^{*0}$ mesons in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbaev, A., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Korobitsin, A., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Manukhov, S. L., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Samigullin, E., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Notwithstanding decades of progress since Yukawa first developed a description of the force between nucleons in terms of meson exchange, a full understanding of the strong interaction remains a major challenge in modern science. One remaining difficulty arises from the non-perturbative nature of the strong force, which leads to the phenomenon of quark confinement at distances on the order of the size of the proton. Here we show that in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, where quarks and gluons are set free over an extended volume, two species of produced vector (spin-1) mesons, namely $\phi$ and $K^{*0}$, emerge with a surprising pattern of global spin alignment. In particular, the global spin alignment for $\phi$ is unexpectedly large, while that for $K^{*0}$ is consistent with zero. The observed spin-alignment pattern and magnitude for the $\phi$ cannot be explained by conventional mechanisms, while a model with a connection to strong force fields, i.e. an effective proxy description within the Standard Model and Quantum Chromodynamics, accommodates the current data. This connection, if fully established, will open a potential new avenue for studying the behaviour of strong force fields.
Published: 2022
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28. Tomography of Ultra-relativistic Nuclei with Polarized Photon-gluon Collisions

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbaev, A., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Klein, S. R., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Korobitsin, A., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Manukhov, S. L., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Samigullin, E., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory, Quantum Physics
Abstract: A linearly polarized photon can be quantized from the Lorentz-boosted electromagnetic field of a nucleus traveling at ultra-relativistic speed. When two relativistic heavy nuclei pass one another at a distance of a few nuclear radii, the photon from one nucleus may interact through a virtual quark-antiquark pair with gluons from the other nucleus forming a short-lived vector meson (e.g. ${\rho^0}$). In this experiment, the polarization was utilized in diffractive photoproduction to observe a unique spin interference pattern in the angular distribution of ${\rho^0\rightarrow\pi^+\pi^-}$ decays. The observed interference is a result of an overlap of two wave functions at a distance an order of magnitude larger than the ${\rho^0}$ travel distance within its lifetime. The strong-interaction nuclear radii were extracted from these diffractive interactions, and found to be $6.53\pm 0.06$ fm ($^{197} {\rm Au }$) and $7.29\pm 0.08$ fm ($^{238} {\rm U}$), larger than the nuclear charge radii. The observable is demonstrated to be sensitive to the nuclear geometry and quantum interference of non-identical particles.
Published: 2022
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29. Anisotropy of Magnetic Field Spectra at Kinetic Scales of Solar Wind Turbulence as Revealed by Parker Solar Probe in the Inner Heliosphere

Author: Huang, S. Y., Xu, S. B., Zhang, J., Sahraoui, F., Andres, N., He, J. S., Yuan, Z. G., Deng, X. H., Jiang, K., Wei, Y. Y., Xiong, Q. Y., Wang, Z., Yu, L., and Lin, R. T.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics - Plasma Physics, Physics - Space Physics
Abstract: Using the Parker Solar Probe data taken in the inner heliosphere, we investigate the power and spatial anisotropy of magnetic-field spectra at kinetic scales (i.e., around sub-ion scales) in solar wind turbulence in the inner heliosphere. We find that strong anisotropy of magnetic spectra occurs at kinetic scales with the strongest power in the perpendicular direction with respect to the local magnetic field (forming an angle theta_B with the mean flow velocity). The spectral index of magnetic spectra varies from -3.2 to -5.8 when the angle theta_B changes from 90 to 180 (or 0) deg, indicating that strong anisotropy of the spectral indices occurs at kinetic scales in the solar wind turbulence. Using a diagnosis based on the magnetic helicity, we show that the anisotropy of the spectral indices can be explained by the nature of the plasma modes that carry the cascade at kinetic scales. We discuss our findings in light of existing theories and current development in the field., Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJL
Published: 2022
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30. Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of higher-order flow harmonics of identified hadrons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbaev, A., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Korobitsin, A., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Manukhov, S. L., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Samigullin, E., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present high-precision measurements of elliptic, triangular, and quadrangular flow $v_{2}$, $v_{3}$, and $v_{4}$, respectively, at midrapidity ($|\eta|<1.0$) for identified hadrons $\pi$, $p$, $K$, $\varphi$, $K_s$, $\Lambda$ as a function of centrality and transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at the center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=$ 200 GeV. We observe similar $v_{n}$ trends between light and strange mesons which indicates that the heavier strange quarks flow as strongly as the lighter up and down quarks. The number-of-constituent-quark scaling for $v_{2}$, $v_{3}$, and $v_{4}$ is found to hold within statistical uncertainty for 0-10$\%$, 10-40$\%$ and 40-80$\%$ collision centrality intervals. The results are compared to several viscous hydrodynamic calculations with varying initial conditions, and could serve as an additional constraint to the development of hydrodynamic models., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, submitted for publication
Published: 2022

31. Collision-System and Beam-Energy Dependence of Anisotropic Flow Fluctuations

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pintér, R. L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Z., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Elliptic flow measurements from two-, four- and six-particle correlations are used to investigate flow fluctuations in collisions of U+U at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$= 193 GeV, Cu+Au at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$= 200 GeV and Au+Au spanning the range $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$= 11.5 - 200 GeV. The measurements show a strong dependence of the flow fluctuations on collision centrality, a modest dependence on system size, and very little if any, dependence on particle species and beam energy. The results, when compared to similar LHC measurements, viscous hydrodynamic calculations, and T$\mathrel{\protect\raisebox{-2.1pt}{R}}$ENTo model eccentricities, indicate that initial-state-driven fluctuations predominate the flow fluctuations generated in the collisions studied., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2022
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32. ΔRDW Could Predict Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction After Sacubitril/Valsartan Treatment

Author: Wang J, Zhao J, Lin Q, Xu X, Jiang K, and Li Y
Subjects: red blood cell distribution width, heart failure, sacubitril/valsartan, major adverse cardiovascular events, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Jingsheng Wang,&ast; Jian Zhao,&ast; Quanqiang Lin,&ast; Xiuxiu Xu, Ke Jiang, Yuanmin Li Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Taian, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yuanmin Li, Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 366 Taishan Street, Taian, 271000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-13583843518, Fax +86-538-6222036, Email Liym575@126.comObjective: This study aimed to evaluate the association between red blood cell distribution width (RDW) changes and major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) occurrences during sacubitril/valsartan treatment in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).Methods: This study retrospectively analyzed the medical records of patients with HFrEF hospitalized from April 2018 to February 2021. The patients were divided into two groups according to the inclusion of sacubitril/valsartan in the personal drug treatment regimen, the traditional and the sacubitril/valsartan group. RDW values before and after sacubitril/valsartan treatment were recorded respectively as RDW1 and RDW2. ΔRDW was defined as the difference between RDW2 and RDW1. The patients in the sacubitril/valsartan group were divided into two subgroups according to ΔRDW > 0 or ≤ 0. MACEs, such as readmission for HF, acute myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and malignant arrhythmia and death, were recorded during the 1-year follow-up period in each group.Results: MACE development was lower in patients treated with sacubitril/valsartan than those treated with conventional therapy (log-rank, P< 0.001). The incidence of cardiac events during the follow-up period was greater in the group with ΔRDW > 0 than in the group with ΔRDW ≤ 0 (Breslow, P< 0.001). Increased RDW was associated with a higher likelihood of developing MACE than decreased RDW (odds ratio [OR] =2.055, 95% confidence interval [CI]:1.301– 3.246), and the risk of developing MACE increased by 22.1% for each unit increase in RDW (OR=1.221, 95% CI:1.074– 1.389).Conclusion: Sacubitril/valsartan treatment is effective in reducing the risk of MACEs in HFrEF. Additionally, RDW changes are predictors of MACEs after sacubitril/valsartan treatment.Keywords: red blood cell distribution width, heart failure, sacubitril/valsartan, major adverse cardiovascular events
Published: 2023

33. Light Nuclei Collectivity from $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbaev, A., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Korobitsin, A., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Manukhov, S. L., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L. S., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Samigullin, E., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: In high-energy heavy-ion collisions, partonic collectivity is evidenced by the constituent quark number scaling of elliptic flow anisotropy for identified hadrons. A breaking of this scaling and dominance of baryonic interactions is found for identified hadron collective flow measurements in $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 3 GeV Au+Au collisions. In this paper, we report measurements of the first- and second-order azimuthal anisotropic parameters, $v_1$ and $v_2$, of light nuclei ($d$, $t$, $^{3}$He, $^{4}$He) produced in $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 3 GeV Au+Au collisions at the STAR experiment. An atomic mass number scaling is found in the measured $v_1$ slopes of light nuclei at mid-rapidity. For the measured $v_2$ magnitude, a strong rapidity dependence is observed. Unlike $v_2$ at higher collision energies, the $v_2$ values at mid-rapidity for all light nuclei are negative and no scaling is observed with the atomic mass number. Calculations by the Jet AA Microscopic Transport Model (JAM), with baryonic mean-field plus nucleon coalescence, are in good agreement with our observations, implying baryonic interactions dominate the collective dynamics in 3 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC.
Published: 2021
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34. Measurements of Proton High Order Cumulants in 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions and Implications for the QCD Critical Point

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report cumulants of the proton multiplicity distribution from dedicated fixed-target Au+Au collisions at 3.0 GeV, measured by the STAR experiment in the kinematic acceptance of rapidity ($y$) and transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) within $-0.5 < y<0$ and $0.4 < p_{\rm T} <2.0 $ GeV/$c$. In the most central 0--5\% collisions, a proton cumulant ratio is measured to be $C_4/C_2=-0.85 \pm 0.09 ~(\rm stat.) \pm 0.82 ~(\rm syst.)$, which is less than unity, the Poisson baseline. The hadronic transport UrQMD model reproduces our $C_4/C_2$ in the measured acceptance. Compared to higher energy results and the transport model calculations, the suppression in $C_4/C_2$ is consistent with fluctuations driven by baryon number conservation and indicates an energy regime dominated by hadronic interactions. These data imply that the QCD critical region, if created in heavy-ion collisions, could only exist at energies higher than 3\,GeV.
Published: 2021
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35. Evidence of Mass Ordering of Charm and Bottom Quark Energy Loss in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, D. M., Aschenauer, E. C., Atchison, J., Bai, X., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Brandenburg, J. D., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Cheng, Y., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Deppner, I. M., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Jin, C., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., McNamara, G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M. I., Nain, A. S., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Pani, T., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Protzman, T., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qin, Z., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Chowdhury, P. Roy, Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seck, F-J., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shen, K., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stewart, D. J., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, C., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tsang, C. Y., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wielanek, D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, X., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yan, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Partons traversing the strongly interacting medium produced in heavy-ion collisions are expected to lose energy depending on their color charge and mass. We measure the nuclear modification factors for charm- and bottom-decay electrons, defined as the ratio of yields, scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, in $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions to $p$+$p$ collisions ($R_{\rm AA}$), or in central to peripheral Au+Au collisions ($R_{\rm CP}$). We find the bottom-decay electron $R_{\rm AA}$ and $R_{\rm CP}$ to be significantly higher than that of charm-decay electrons. Model calculations including mass-dependent parton energy loss in a strongly coupled medium are consistent with the measured data. These observations provide clear evidence of mass ordering of charm and bottom quark energy loss when traversing through the strongly coupled medium created in heavy-ion collisions.
Published: 2021
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36. Evidence for Nonlinear Gluon Effects in QCD and their $A$ Dependence at STAR

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbaev, A., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Korobitsin, A., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Manukhov, S. L., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Samigullin, E., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Theory, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The STAR Collaboration reports measurements of back-to-back azimuthal correlations of di-$\pi^0$s produced at forward pseudorapidities ($2.6<\eta<4.0$) in $p$+$p$, $p+$Al, and $p+$Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV. We observe a clear suppression of the correlated yields of back-to-back $\pi^0$ pairs in $p+$Al and $p+$Au collisions compared to the $p$+$p$ data. The observed suppression of back-to-back pairs as a function of transverse momentum suggests nonlinear gluon dynamics arising at high parton densities. The larger suppression found in $p+$Au relative to $p+$Al collisions exhibits a dependence of the saturation scale, $Q_s^2$, on the mass number, $A$. A linear scaling of the suppression with $A^{1/3}$ is observed with a slope of $-0.09$ $\pm$ $0.01$., Comment: 7 pages,3 figures, 1 supplemental material
Published: 2021
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37. Peta-electron volt gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula

Author: The LHAASO Collaboration, Cao, Zhen, Aharonian, F., An, Q., Axikegu, Bai, L. X., Bai, Y. X., Bao, Y. W., Bastieri, D., Bi, X. J., Bi, Y. J., Cai, H., Cai, J. T., Cao, Zhe, Chang, J., Chang, J. F., Chen, B. M., Chen, E. S., Chen, J., Chen, Liang, Chen, Long, Chen, M. J., Chen, M. L., Chen, Q. H., Chen, S. H., Chen, S. Z., Chen, T. L., Chen, X. L., Chen, Y., Cheng, N., Cheng, Y. D., Cui, S. W., Cui, X. H., Cui, Y. D., Piazzoli, B. D'Ettorre, Dai, B. Z., Dai, H. L., Dai, Z. G., Danzengluobu, della Volpe, D., Dong, X. J., Duan, K. K., Fan, J. H., Fan, Y. Z., Fan, Z. X., Fang, J., Fang, K., Feng, C. F., Feng, L., Feng, S. H., Feng, Y. L., Gao, B., Gao, C. D., Gao, L. Q., Gao, Q., Gao, W., Ge, M. M., Geng, L. S., Gong, G. H., Gou, Q. B., Gu, M. H., Guo, F. L., Guo, J. G., Guo, X. L., Guo, Y. Q., Guo, Y. Y., Han, Y. A., He, H. H., He, H. N., He, J. C., He, S. L., He, X. B., He, Y., Heller, M., Hor, Y. K., Hou, C., Hou, X., Hu, H. B., Hu, S., Hu, S. C., Hu, X. J., Huang, D. H., Huang, Q. L., Huang, W. H., Huang, X. T., Huang, X. Y., Huang, Z. C., Ji, F., Ji, X. L., Jia, H. Y., Jiang, K., Jiang, Z. J., Jin, C., Ke, T., Kuleshov, D., Levochkin, K., Li, B. B., Li, Cheng, Li, Cong, Li, F., Li, H. B., Li, H. C., Li, H. Y., Li, Jie, Li, Jian, Li, K., Li, W. L., Li, X. R., Li, Xin, Li, Y., Li, Y. Z., Li, Zhe, Li, Zhuo, Liang, E. W., Liang, Y. F., Lin, S. J., Liu, B., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, H., Liu, H. D., Liu, J., Liu, J. L., Liu, J. S., Liu, J. Y., Liu, M. Y., Liu, R. Y., Liu, S. M., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y. N., Liu, Z. X., Long, W. J., Lu, R., Lv, H. K., Ma, B. Q., Ma, L. L., Ma, X. H., Mao, J. R., Masood, A., Min, Z., Mitthumsiri, W., Montaruli, T., Nan, Y. C., Pang, B. Y., Pattarakijwanich, P., Pei, Z. Y., Qi, M. Y., Qi, Y. Q., Qiao, B. Q., Qin, J. J., Ruffolo, D., Rulev, V., Sáiz, A., Shao, L., Shchegolev, O., Sheng, X. D., Shi, J. Y., Song, H. C., Stenkin, Yu. V., Stepanov, V., Su, Y., Sun, Q. N., Sun, X. N., Sun, Z. B., Tam, P. H. T., Tang, Z. B., Tian, W. W., Wang, B. D., Wang, C., Wang, H., Wang, H. G., Wang, J. C., Wang, J. S., Wang, L. P., Wang, L. Y., Wang, R. N., Wang, Wei, Wang, X. G., Wang, X. J., Wang, X. Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. D., Wang, Y. J., Wang, Y. P., Wang, Z. H., Wang, Z. X., Wang, Zhen, Wang, Zheng, Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. J., Wen, T., Wu, C. Y., Wu, H. R., Wu, S., Wu, W. X., Wu, X. F., Xi, S. Q., Xia, J., Xia, J. J., Xiang, G. M., Xiao, D. X., Xiao, G., Xiao, H. B., Xin, G. G., Xin, Y. L., Xing, Y., Xu, D. L., Xu, R. X., Xue, L., Yan, D. H., Yan, J. Z., Yang, C. W., Yang, F. F., Yang, J. Y., Yang, L. L., Yang, M. J., Yang, R. Z., Yang, S. B., Yao, Y. H., Yao, Z. G., Ye, Y. M., Yin, L. Q., Yin, N., You, X. H., You, Z. Y., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Zeng, H. D., Zeng, T. X., Zeng, W., Zeng, Z. K., Zha, M., Zhai, X. X., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, H. Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, J. W., Zhang, L. X., Zhang, Li, Zhang, Lu, Zhang, P. F., Zhang, P. P., Zhang, R., Zhang, S. R., Zhang, S. S., Zhang, X., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, Yi, Zhang, Yong, Zhao, B., Zhao, J., Zhao, L., Zhao, L. Z., Zhao, S. P., Zheng, F., Zheng, Y., Zhou, B., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. N., Zhou, P., Zhou, R., Zhou, X. X., Zhu, C. G., Zhu, F. R., Zhu, H., Zhu, K. J., and Zuo, X.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Crab pulsar and the surrounding nebula powered by the pulsar's rotational energy through the formation and termination of a relativistic electron-positron wind is a bright source of gamma-rays carrying crucial information about this complex conglomerate. We report the detection of $\gamma$-rays with a spectrum showing gradual steepening over three energy decades, from $5\times 10^{-4}$ to $1.1$ petaelectronvolt (PeV). The ultra-high-energy photons exhibit the presence of a PeV electron accelerator (a pevatron) with an acceleration rate exceeding 15% of the absolute theoretical limit. Assuming that unpulsed $\gamma$-rays are produced at the termination of the pulsar's wind, we constrain the pevatron's size, between $0.025$ and $0.1$ pc, and the magnetic field $\approx 110 \mu$G. The production rate of PeV electrons, $2.5 \times 10^{36}$ erg $\rm s^{-1}$, constitutes 0.5% of the pulsar's spin-down luminosity, although we do not exclude a non-negligible contribution of PeV protons to the production of the highest energy $\gamma$-rays., Comment: 43 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables; Published in Science
Published: 2021
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38. A density-wave-like transition in the polycrystalline V3Sb2 sample with bilayer kagome lattice

Author: Wang, N. N., Gu, Y. H., McGuire, M. A., Yan, J. Q., Shi, L. F., Cui, Q., Chen, K. Y., Wang, Y. X., Zhang, H., Yang, H. X., Dong, X. L., Jiang, K., Hu, J. P., Wang, B. S., Sun, J. P., and Cheng, J. -G.
Subjects: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract: Recently, transition-metal-based kagome metals have aroused much research interest as a novel platform to explore exotic topological quantum phenomena. Here we report on the synthesis, structure, and physical properties of a bilayer kagome lattice compound V3Sb2. The polycrystalline V3Sb2 samples were synthesized by conventional solid-state-reaction method in a sealed quartz tube at temperatures below 850 Celsius degree. Measurements of magnetic susceptibility and resistivity revealed consistently a density-wave-like transition at Tdw ~ 160 K with a large thermal hysteresis, even though some sample-dependent behaviors are observed presumably due to the different preparation conditions. Upon cooling through Tdw, no strong anomaly in lattice parameters and no indication of symmetry lowering were detected in powder x-ray diffraction measurements. This transition can be suppressed completely by applying hydrostatic pressures of about 1.8 GPa, around which no sign of superconductivity is observed down to 1.5 K. Specific-heat measurements reveal a relatively large Sommerfeld coefficient {\gamma} = 18.5 mJ/mol-K2, confirming the metallic ground state with moderate electronic correlations. Density functional theory calculations indicate that V3Sb2 shows a non-trivial topological crystalline property. Thus, our study makes V3Sb2 a new candidate of metallic kagome compound to study the interplay between density-wave-order, nontrivial band topology, and possible superconductivity., Comment: 22 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2021
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39. Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet and dijet production in polarized proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=510$ GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbaev, A., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, C., Hu, Q., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Isenhower, D., Isshiki, M., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Korobitsin, A., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lu, T., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Manukhov, S. L., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Okubo, K., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Paul, A., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Samigullin, E., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sharma, R., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Singh, J., Singha, S., Sinha, P., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhao, M., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, for inclusive jet and dijet production in polarized proton-proton collisions at midrapidity and center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 510 GeV, using the high luminosity data sample collected by the STAR experiment in 2013. These measurements complement and improve the precision of previous STAR measurements at the same center-of-mass energy that probe the polarized gluon distribution function at partonic momentum fraction 0.015 $\lesssim x \lesssim$ 0.25. The dijet asymmetries are separated into four jet-pair topologies, which provide further constraints on the $x$ dependence of the polarized gluon distribution function. These measurements are in agreement with previous STAR measurements and with predictions from current next-to-leading order global analyses. They provide more precise data at low dijet invariant mass that will better constraint the shape of the polarized gluon distribution function of the proton.
Published: 2021

40. Measurement of cold nuclear matter effects for inclusive $J/\psi$ in $p$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}$ = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pintér, R. L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Measurement by the STAR experiment at RHIC of the cold nuclear matter (CNM) effects experienced by inclusive $J/\psi$ at mid-rapidity in 0-100\% $p$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}$ = 200 GeV is presented. Such effects are quantified utilizing the nuclear modification factor, $R_{p\mathrm{Au}}$, obtained by taking a ratio of $J/\psi$ yield in $p$+Au collisions to that in $p$+$p$ collisions scaled by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The differential $J/\psi$ yield in both $p$+$p$ and $p$+Au collisions is measured through the dimuon decay channel, taking advantage of the trigger capability provided by the Muon Telescope Detector in the RHIC 2015 run. Consequently, the $J/\psi$ $R_{p\mathrm{Au}}$ is derived within the transverse momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) range of 0 to 10 GeV/$c$. A suppression of approximately 30% is observed for $p_{\mathrm{T}}<2$ GeV/$c$, while $J/\psi$ $R_{p\mathrm{Au}}$ becomes compatible with unity for $p_{\mathrm{T}}$ greater than 3 GeV/$c$, indicating the $J/\psi$ yield is minimally affected by the CNM effects at high $p_{\mathrm{T}}$. Comparison to a similar measurement from 0-20% central Au+Au collisions reveals that the observed strong $J/\psi$ suppression above 3 Gev/$c$ is mostly due to the hot medium effects, providing strong evidence for the formation of the quark-gluon plasma in these collisions. Several model calculations show qualitative agreement with the measured $J/\psi$ $R_{p\mathrm{Au}}$, while their agreement with the $J/\psi$ yields in $p$+$p$ and $p$+Au collisions is worse., Comment: 5 figures
Published: 2021
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41. Measurements of ${}^3_\Lambda \rm{H}$ and ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$ Lifetimes and Yields in Au+Au Collisions in the High Baryon Density Region

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pintér, R. L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report precision measurements of hypernuclei ${}^3_\Lambda \rm{H}$ and ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$ lifetimes obtained from Au+Au collisions at \snn = 3.0\,GeV and 7.2\,GeV collected by the STAR experiment at RHIC, and the first measurement of ${}^3_\Lambda \rm{H}$ and ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$ mid-rapidity yields in Au+Au collisions at \snn = 3.0\,GeV. ${}^3_\Lambda \rm{H}$ and ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$, being the two simplest bound states composed of hyperons and nucleons, are cornerstones in the field of hypernuclear physics. Their lifetimes are measured to be $221\pm15(\rm stat.)\pm19(\rm syst.)$\,ps for ${}^3_\Lambda \rm{H}$ and $218\pm6(\rm stat.)\pm13(\rm syst.)$\,ps for ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$. The $p_T$-integrated yields of ${}^3_\Lambda \rm{H}$ and ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$ are presented in different centrality and rapidity intervals. It is observed that the shape of the rapidity distribution of ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$ is different for 0--10\% and 10--50\% centrality collisions. Thermal model calculations, using the canonical ensemble for strangeness, describes the ${}^3_\Lambda \rm{H}$ yield well, while underestimating the ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$ yield. Transport models, combining baryonic mean-field and coalescence (JAM) or utilizing dynamical cluster formation via baryonic interactions (PHQMD) for light nuclei and hypernuclei production, approximately describe the measured ${}^3_\Lambda \rm{H}$ and ${}^4_\Lambda \rm{H}$ yields. Our measurements provide means to precisely assess our understanding of the fundamental baryonic interactions with strange quarks, which can impact our understanding of more complicated systems involving hyperons, such as the interior of neutron stars or exotic hypernuclei., Comment: 8 pages, 4 captioned figures
Published: 2021
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42. Branched flow of intense laser light in plasma with uneven density distribution

Author: Jiang, K., Huang, T. W., Wu, C. N., Yu, M. Y., Zhang, H., Wu, S. Z., Zhuo, H. B., Pukhov, A., Zhou, C. T., and Ruan, S. C.
Subjects: Physics - Plasma Physics, Physics - Optics
Abstract: Branched flow is an interesting phenomenon that can occur in diverse systems. It is usually linear in the sense that the flow does not alter the medium properties. Branched flow of light on thin films was recently discovered. A question of interest is thus if nonlinear branched flow of light can also occur. Here we found using particle-in-cell simulations that with intense laser propagating in plasma with randomly uneven density distribution, photoionization by the laser can locally enhance the density variations along the laser paths and thus the branching of the laser. However, too-intense lasers can smooth the uneven electron density and suppress branching. The observed branching properties agree well with an analysis based on a Helmholtz equation for the laser electric field. Branched flow of intense laser in uneven plasma potentially opens up a new realm of intense laser-matter interaction., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2021

43. Measurement of inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays in $p$+$p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV with the STAR detector

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., arwal, M. M. Agg, Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., n, I. G. Bordyuzhi, Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., h, T. G. Dedovic, Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., lop, J. C. Dun, Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N ., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W ., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J ., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., acey, R. L, Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y ., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., e, W. J. Llop, Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., sim, Md. Na, Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., k, B. Pawli, Pawlowska, D., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pintér, R. L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., ova, V. Prozor, Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., ter, H. G. Rit, Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., han, P. V. Shanmuganat, Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., rida, D. N. Svi, Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., loshin, S. A. Vo, Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., n, H. Wiema, Wissink, S. W., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., g, S. Yan, Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report a new measurement of the production cross section for inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays as a function of transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) at mid-rapidity ($|y|<$ 0.7) in $p$+$p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV. The result is presented for 2.5 $
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44. Electron-only Reconnection in Ion-scale Current Sheet at the Magnetopause

Author: Huang, S. Y., Xiong, Q. Y., Song, L. F., Nan, J., Yuan, Z. G., Jiang, K., Deng, X. H., and Yu, L.
Subjects: Physics - Plasma Physics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Physics - Space Physics
Abstract: In the standard model of magnetic reconnection, both ions and electrons couple to the newly reconnected magnetic field lines and are ejected away from the reconnection diffusion region in the form of bidirectional burst ion and electron jets. Recent observations propose a new model: electron only magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in electron scale current sheet. Based on the data from Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, we observe a long extension inner electron diffusion region (EDR) at least 40 di away from the X line at the terrestrial Magnetopause, implying that the extension of EDR is much longer than the prediction of the theory and simulations. This inner EDR is embedded in an ion scale current sheet (the width of 4 di, di is ion inertial length). However, such ongoing magnetic reconnection was not accompanied with burst ion outflow, implying the presence of electron only reconnection in ion scale current sheet. Our observations present new challenge for understanding the model of standard magnetic reconnection and electron only reconnection model in electron scale current sheet., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ
Published: 2021
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45. In Situ Detection of Kinetic-Size Magnetic Holes in the Martian Magnetosheath

Author: Huang, S. Y., Lin, R. T., Yuan, Z. G., Jiang, K., Wei, Y. Y., Xu, S. B., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z. H., Xiong, Q. Y., and Yu, L.
Subjects: Physics - Space Physics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Physics - Plasma Physics
Abstract: Depression in magnetic field strength with a scale below one proton gyroradius is referred to as kinetic-size magnetic hole (KSMH). KSMHs are frequently observed near terrestrial space environments and are thought to play an important role in electron energization and energy dissipation in space plasmas. Recently, KSMHs have been evidenced in the Venusian magnetosheath. However, observations of KSMHs in other planetary environments are still lacking. In this study, we present the in situ detection of KSMHs in Martian magnetosheath using Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) for the first time. The distribution of KSMHs is asymmetry in the southern northern hemisphere and no obvious asymmetry in the dawn dusk hemisphere. The observed KSMHs are accompanied by increases in the electron fluxes in the perpendicular direction, indicating the cues of trapped electrons and the formation of electron vortices inside KSMHs. These features are similar to the observations in the terrestrail magtosheath and magnetotail plasma sheet and the Venusian magnetosheath. This implies that KSMHs are a universal magnetic structure in space., Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ
Published: 2021
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46. Observational Evidence of Magnetic Reconnection in the Terrestrial Foreshock Region

Author: Jiang, K., Huang, S. Y., Fu, H. S., Yuan, Z. G., Deng, X. H., Wang, Z., Guo, Z. Z., Xu, S. B., Wei, Y. Y., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z. H., Xiong, Q. Y., and Yu, L.
Subjects: Physics - Plasma Physics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Physics - Space Physics
Abstract: Electron heating/acceleration in the foreshock, by which electrons may be energized beyond thermal energies prior to encountering the bow shock, is very important for the bow shock dynamics. And then these electrons would be more easily injected into a process like diffusive shock acceleration. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain electrons heating/acceleration in the foreshock. Magnetic reconnection is one possible candidate. Taking advantage of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, we present two magnetic reconnection events in the dawn-side and dusk-side ion foreshock region, respectively. Super-Alfv\'enic electron outflow, demagnetization of the electrons and the ions, and crescent electron distributions in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field are observed in the sub-ion-scale current sheets. Moreover, strong energy conversion from the fields to the plasmas and significant electron temperature enhancement are observed. Our observations provide direct evidence that magnetic reconnection could occur in the foreshock region and heat/accelerate the electrons therein., Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ
Published: 2021
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47. Differential measurements of jet substructure and partonic energy loss in Au$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} =200$ GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pintér, R. L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The STAR collaboration presents jet substructure measurements related to both the momentum fraction and the opening angle within jets in \pp and \AuAu collisions at \sqrtsn $= 200$ GeV. The substructure observables include SoftDrop groomed momentum fraction (\zg), groomed jet radius (\rg), and subjet momentum fraction (\zsj) and opening angle (\tsj). The latter observable is introduced for the first time. Fully corrected subjet measurements are presented for \pp collisions and are compared to leading order Monte Carlo models. The subjet \tsj~distributions reflect the jets leading opening angle and are utilized as a proxy for the resolution scale of the medium in \AuAu collisions. We compare data from \AuAu collisions to those from \pp which are embedded in minimum-bias \AuAu events in order to include the effects of detector smearing and the heavy-ion collision underlying event. The subjet observables are shown to be more robust to the background than \zg~and \rg. We observe no significant modifications of the subjet observables within the two highest-energy, back-to-back jets, resulting in a distribution of opening angles and the splittings that are vacuum-like. We also report measurements of the differential di-jet momentum imbalance ($A_{\rm{J}}$) for jets of varying \tsj. We find no qualitative differences in energy loss signatures for varying angular scales in the range $0.1 < $ \tsj $ < 0.3$, leading to the possible interpretation that energy loss in this population of high momentum di-jet pairs, is due to soft medium-induced gluon radiation from a single color-charge as it traverses the medium., Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, 1 Appendix. Published version
Published: 2021
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48. Probing the gluonic structure of the deuteron with $J/\psi$ photoproduction in d+Au ultra-peripheral collisions

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Lewis, N., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Song, Y., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, G., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Understanding gluon density distributions and how they are modified in nuclei are among the most important goals in nuclear physics. In recent years, diffractive vector meson production measured in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) at heavy-ion colliders has provided a new tool for probing the gluon density. In this Letter, we report the first measurement of $J/\psi$ photoproduction off the deuteron in UPCs at the center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=200~\rm GeV$ in d$+$Au collisions. The differential cross section as a function of momentum transfer $-t$ is measured. In addition, data with a neutron tagged in the deuteron-going Zero-Degree Calorimeter is investigated for the first time, which is found to be consistent with the expectation of incoherent diffractive scattering at low momentum transfer. Theoretical predictions based on the Color Glass Condensate saturation model and the gluon shadowing model are compared with the data quantitatively. A better agreement with the saturation model has been observed. With the current measurement, the results are found to be directly sensitive to the gluon density distribution of the deuteron and the deuteron breakup, which provides insights into the nuclear gluonic structure., Comment: Final published version Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 122303
Published: 2021
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49. Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect with Isobar Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV by the STAR Collaboration at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pintér, R. L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, A. K., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D. Y., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is predicted to occur as a consequence of a local violation of $\cal P$ and $\cal CP$ symmetries of the strong interaction amidst a strong electro-magnetic field generated in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Experimental manifestation of the CME involves a separation of positively and negatively charged hadrons along the direction of the magnetic field. Previous measurements of the CME-sensitive charge-separation observables remain inconclusive because of large background contributions. In order to better control the influence of signal and backgrounds, the STAR Collaboration performed a blind analysis of a large data sample of approximately 3.8 billion isobar collisions of $^{96}_{44}$Ru+$^{96}_{44}$Ru and $^{96}_{40}$Zr+$^{96}_{40}$Zr at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=200$ GeV. Prior to the blind analysis, the CME signatures are predefined as a significant excess of the CME-sensitive observables in Ru+Ru collisions over those in Zr+Zr collisions, owing to a larger magnetic field in the former. A precision down to 0.4% is achieved, as anticipated, in the relative magnitudes of the pertinent observables between the two isobar systems. Observed differences in the multiplicity and flow harmonics at the matching centrality indicate that the magnitude of the CME background is different between the two species. No CME signature that satisfies the predefined criteria has been observed in isobar collisions in this blind analysis., Comment: 43 pages, 27 figures
Published: 2021

50. Probing Strangeness Canonical Ensemble with $K^{-}$, $\phi(1020)$ and $\Xi^{-}$ Production in Au+Au Collisions at ${\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = \rm{3\,GeV}}$

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdallah, M. S., Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Adams, J. R., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Anderson, D. M., Aparin, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashraf, M. U., Atetalla, F. G., Attri, A., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Baker, W., Cap, J. G. Ball, Barish, K., Behera, A., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Brandenburg, J. D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chan, B. K., Chang, F-H., Chang, Z., Chankova-Bunzarova, N., Chatterjee, A., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, D., Chen, J., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Cheng, J., Chevalier, M., Choudhury, S., Christie, W., Chu, X., Crawford, H. J., Csanád, M., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., Deppner, I. M., Derevschikov, A. A., Dhamija, A., Di Carlo, L., Didenko, L., Dixit, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Duckworth, E., Dunlop, J. C., Elsey, N., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Ewigleben, A., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fawzi, F. M., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, C. J., Feng, Y., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Francisco, A., Fu, C., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Galatyuk, T., Geurts, F., Ghimire, N., Gibson, A., Gopal, K., Gou, X., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A. I., Hamed, A., Han, Y., Harabasz, S., Harasty, M. D., Harris, J. W., Harrison, H., He, S., He, W., He, X. H., He, Y., Heppelmann, S., Herrmann, N., Hoffman, E., Holub, L., Hu, Y., Huang, H., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Huang, Y., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Isenhower, D., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jentsch, A., Ji, Y., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Ju, X., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kabir, M. L., Kagamaster, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kapukchyan, D., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kelsey, M., Khyzhniak, Y. V., Kikoła, D. P., Kim, C., Kimelman, B., Kincses, D., Kisel, I., Kiselev, A., Knospe, A. G., Ko, H. S., Kochenda, L., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kramarik, L., Kravtsov, P., Kumar, L., Kumar, S., Elayavalli, R. Kunnawalkam, Kwasizur, J. H., Lacey, R., Lan, S., Landgraf, J. M., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leung, Y. H., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Liang, Y., Licenik, R., Lin, T., Lin, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, P., Liu, T., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Loyd, E., Lukow, N. S., Luo, X. F., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Mallick, D., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Mazer, J. A., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Mooney, I., Morozov, D. A., Mukherjee, A., Nagy, M., Nam, J. D., Nasim, Md., Nayak, K., Neff, D., Nelson, J. M., Nemes, D. B., Nie, M., Nigmatkulov, G., Niida, T., Nishitani, R., Nogach, L. V., Nonaka, T., Nunes, A. S., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, S., Okorokov, V. A., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, J., Pandav, A., Pandey, A. K., Panebratsev, Y., Parfenov, P., Pawlik, B., Pawlowska, D., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Pinsky, L., Pintér, R. L., Pluta, J., Pokhrel, B. R., Ponimatkin, G., Porter, J., Posik, M., Prozorova, V., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Racz, C., Radhakrishnan, S. K., Raha, N., Ray, R. L., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Robotkova, M., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, D., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sako, H., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sato, S., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Schweid, B. R., Seck, F., Seger, J., Sergeeva, M., Seto, R., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Shao, T., Sheikh, A. I., Shen, D., Shi, S. S., Shi, Y., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singh, J., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Söhngen, Y., Solyst, W., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stefaniak, M., Stewart, D. J., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Sweger, Z. W., Szymanski, P., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Taranenko, A., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Tomkiel, C. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Truhlar, T., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Tu, Z., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., Vanek, J., Vasiliev, A. N., Vassiliev, I., Verkest, V., Videbæk, F., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, P., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Webb, J. C., Weidenkaff, P. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xi, B., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, G., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yu, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. J., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhou, C., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zurek, M., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the first multi-differential measurements of strange hadrons of $K^{-}$, $\phi$ and $\Xi^{-}$ yields as well as the ratios of $\phi/K^-$ and $\phi/\Xi^-$ in Au+Au collisions at ${\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = \rm{3\,GeV}}$ with the STAR experiment fixed target configuration at RHIC. The $\phi$ mesons and $\Xi^{-}$ hyperons are measured through hadronic decay channels, $\phi\rightarrow K^+K^-$ and $\Xi^-\rightarrow \Lambda\pi^-$. Collision centrality and rapidity dependence of the transverse momentum spectra for these strange hadrons are presented. The $4\pi$ yields and ratios are compared to thermal model and hadronic transport model predictions. At this collision energy, thermal model with grand canonical ensemble (GCE) under-predicts the $\phi/K^-$ and $\phi/\Xi^-$ ratios while the result of canonical ensemble (CE) calculations reproduce $\phi/K^-$, with the correlation length $r_c \sim 2.7$\,fm, and $\phi/\Xi^-$, $r_c \sim 4.2$\,fm, for the 0-10\% central collisions. Hadronic transport models including high mass resonance decays could also describe the ratios. While thermal calculations with GCE work well for strangeness production in high energy collisions, the change to CE at $\rm{3\,GeV}$ implies a rather different medium property at high baryon density., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2021
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