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1. Centrality dependence of identified particle elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions at sqrt(s)= 7.7--62.4 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Bai, X., Bairathi, V., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandenburg, D., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chisman, O., Christie, W., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Z., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, H. Z., Huang, B., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jia, J., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikoła, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kochenda, L., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, X., Li, W., Li, C., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, R., Ma, L., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mishra, D., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M. K., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Smirnov, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stepanov, M., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X., Sun, Z., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, N., Szelezniak, M. A., Tang, Z., Tang, A. H., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A., Thaeder, J., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Todoroki, T., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, F., Wang, J. S., Wang, Y., Wang, G., Wang, H., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Z., Xu, Y. F., Xu, H., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Z., Zhang, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. B., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Elliptic flow (v_2) values for identified particles at midrapidity in Au + Au collisions measured by the STAR experiment in the Beam Energy Scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at sqrt{s_{NN}}= 7.7--62.4 GeV are presented for three centrality classes. The centrality dependence and the data at sqrt{s_{NN}}= 14.5 GeV are new. Except at the lowest beam energies we observe a similar relative v_2 baryon-meson splitting for all centrality classes which is in agreement within 15% with the number-of-constituent quark scaling. The larger v_2 for most particles relative to antiparticles, already observed for minimum bias collisions, shows a clear centrality dependence, with the largest difference for the most central collisions. Also, the results are compared with A Multiphase Transport Model and fit with a Blast Wave model., Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, Phys. Rev. C, to be published. Data tables available at https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/publications/centrality-dependence-identified-particle-elliptic-flow-relativistic-heavy-ion-collisio
Published: 2015
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2. Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of elliptic flow of multi-strange hadrons and $\phi$ meson in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Bai, X., Bairathi, V., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Z., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, S., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, X., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikoła, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kochenda, L., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, W., Li, C., Li, X., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, R., Ma, L., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mishra, D., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, S., Raniwala, R., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M. K., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Singha, S., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Smirnov, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stepanov, M., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, N., Szelezniak, M. A., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, J. S., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Wu, Z. G. Xiao, Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Z., Xu, H., Xu, Y. F., Xu, N., Yang, Y., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Yang, S., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We present high precision measurements of elliptic flow near midrapidity ($|y|<1.0$) for multi-strange hadrons and $\phi$ meson as a function of centrality and transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 200 GeV. We observe that the transverse momentum dependence of $\phi$ and $\Omega$ $v_{2}$ is similar to that of $\pi$ and $p$, respectively, which may indicate that the heavier strange quark flows as strongly as the lighter up and down quarks. This observation constitutes a clear piece of evidence for the development of partonic collectivity in heavy-ion collisions at the top RHIC energy. Number of constituent quark scaling is found to hold within statistical uncertainty for both 0-30$\%$ and 30-80$\%$ collision centrality. There is an indication of the breakdown of previously observed mass ordering between $\phi$ and proton $v_{2}$ at low transverse momentum in the 0-30$\%$ centrality range, possibly indicating late hadronic interactions affecting the proton $v_{2}$., Comment: 7 pages and 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Published: 2015
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3. Probing Parton Dynamics of QCD Matter with $\Omega$ and $\phi$ Production

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Z., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikoła, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kochenda, L., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, X., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Li, W., Li, C., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Ma, L., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mishra, D., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Smirnov, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stepanov, M., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, Z., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, X., Surrow, B., Svirida, N., Szelezniak, M. A., Tang, Z., Tang, A. H., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Y. F., Xu, Q. H., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Z., Yang, Y., Yang, C., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, Z., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present measurements of $\Omega$ and $\phi$ production at mid-rapidity from Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Motivated by the coalescence formation mechanism for these strange hadrons, we study the ratios of $N(\Omega^{-}+\Omega^{+})/(2N(\phi))$. These ratios as a function of transverse momentum ($p_T$) fall on a consistent trend at high collision energies, but start to show deviations in peripheral collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV, and in central collisions at 11.5 GeV in the intermediate $p_T$ region of 2.4-3.6 GeV/c. We further evaluate empirically the strange quark $p_T$ distributions at hadronization by studying the $\Omega/\phi$ ratios scaled by the number of constituent quarks. The NCQ-scaled $\Omega/\phi$ ratios show a suppression of strange quark production in central collisions at 11.5 GeV compared to $\sqrt{s_{NN}} >= 19.6$ GeV. The shapes of the presumably thermal strange quark distributions in 0-60% most central collisions at 7.7 GeV show significant deviations from those in 0-10% most central collisions at higher energies. These features suggest that there is likely a change of the underlying strange quark dynamics in the transition from quark-matter to hadronic matter at collision energies below 19.6 GeV., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2015
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4. Azimuthal anisotropy in U+U and Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Z., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kochenda, L., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, X., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Li, W., Li, C., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, R., Ma, Y. G., Ma, L., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mishra, D., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Smirnov, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stepanov, M., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, Z., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, X., Surrow, B., Svirida, N., Szelezniak, M. A., Tang, Z., Tang, A. H., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Y. F., Xu, Q. H., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Z., Yang, Y., Yang, C., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, Z., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Collisions between prolate uranium nuclei are used to study how particle production and azimuthal anisotropies depend on initial geometry in heavy-ion collisions. We report the two- and four-particle cumulants, $v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$, for charged hadrons from U+U collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 193 GeV and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV. Nearly fully overlapping collisions are selected based on the amount of energy deposited by spectators in the STAR Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDCs). Within this sample, the observed dependence of $v_2\{2\}$ on multiplicity demonstrates that ZDC information combined with multiplicity can preferentially select different overlap configurations in U+U collisions. An initial-state model with gluon saturation describes the slope of $v_2\{2\}$ as a function of multiplicity in central collisions better than one based on Glauber with a two-component multiplicity model., Comment: Final paper version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. New version includes comparisons to a constituent quark glauber model
Published: 2015
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5. Observation of charge asymmetry dependence of pion elliptic flow and the possible chiral magnetic wave in heavy-ion collisions

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Z., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, X., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kochenda, L., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, W., Li, Z. M., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, C., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, Y. G., Ma, R., Ma, G. L., Ma, L., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mishra, D., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Smirnov, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stepanov, M., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, N., Szelezniak, M. A., Tang, Z., Tang, A. H., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A. N., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Q. H., Xu, N., Xu, H., Xu, Z., Xu, Y. F., Yang, Q., Yang, Y., Yang, C., Yang, S., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, S., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We present measurements of $\pi^-$ and $\pi^+$ elliptic flow, $v_2$, at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} =$ 200, 62.4, 39, 27, 19.6, 11.5 and 7.7 GeV, as a function of event-by-event charge asymmetry, $A_{ch}$, based on data from the STAR experiment at RHIC. We find that $\pi^-$ ($\pi^+$) elliptic flow linearly increases (decreases) with charge asymmetry for most centrality bins at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} = \text{27 GeV}$ and higher. At $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} = \text{200 GeV}$, the slope of the difference of $v_2$ between $\pi^-$ and $\pi^+$ as a function of $A_{ch}$ exhibits a centrality dependence, which is qualitatively similar to calculations that incorporate a chiral magnetic wave effect. Similar centrality dependence is also observed at lower energies., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2015
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6. Measurements of Dielectron Production in Au$+$Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV from the STAR Experiment

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Z., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, S., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, X., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kochenda, L., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, X., Li, C., Li, W., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, Y. G., Ma, G. L., Ma, L., Ma, R., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stepanov, M., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X., Sun, Z., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, N., Szelezniak, M. A., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A. N., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, G., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Z., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Y. F., Yang, Q., Yang, Y., Yang, S., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report on measurements of dielectron ($e^+e^-$) production in Au$+$Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV per nucleon-nucleon pair using the STAR detector at RHIC. Systematic measurements of the dielectron yield as a function of transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) and collision centrality show an enhancement compared to a cocktail simulation of hadronic sources in the low invariant-mass region ($M_{ee}<$ 1 GeV/$c^2$). This enhancement cannot be reproduced by the $\rho$-meson vacuum spectral function. In minimum-bias collisions, in the invariant-mass range of 0.30 $-$ 0.76 GeV/$c^2$, integrated over the full $p_{\rm T}$ acceptance, the enhancement factor is 1.76 $\pm$ 0.06 (stat.) $\pm$ 0.26 (sys.) $\pm$ 0.29 (cocktail). The enhancement factor exhibits weak centrality and $p_{\rm T}$ dependence in STAR's accessible kinematic regions, while the excess yield in this invariant-mass region as a function of the number of participating nucleons follows a power-law shape with a power of 1.44 $\pm$ 0.10. Models that assume an in-medium broadening of the $\rho$ meson spectral function consistently describe the observed excess in these measurements. Additionally, we report on measurements of $\omega$ and $\phi$-meson production through their $e^+e^-$ decay channel. These measurements show good agreement with Tsallis Blast-Wave model predictions as well as, in the case of the $\phi$-meson, results through its $K^+K^-$ decay channel. In the intermediate invariant-mass region (1.1$
Published: 2015
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7. Observation of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations of Charged Pion Pairs in $p^\uparrow+p$ at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., S'anchez, M. Calder'on de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Z., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, S., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, X., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kochenda, L., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, X., Li, C., Li, W., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, Y. G., Ma, G. L., Ma, L., Ma, R., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stepanov, M., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X., Sun, Z., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Surrow, B., Svirida, N., Szelezniak, M. A., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A. N., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, G., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Z., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Y. F., Yang, Q., Yang, Y., Yang, S., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, Z., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the observation of transverse polarization-dependent azimuthal correlations in charged pion pair production with the STAR experiment in $p^\uparrow+p$ collisions at RHIC. These correlations directly probe quark transversity distributions. We measure signals in excess of five standard deviations at high transverse momenta, at high pseudorapidities eta>0.5, and for pair masses around the mass of the rho-meson. This is the first direct transversity measurement in p+p collisions. Comparing the results to data from lepton-nucleon scattering will test the universality of these spin-dependent quantities., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, 15 tables. Submitted to PRL
Published: 2015
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8. Long-range pseudorapidity dihadron correlations in $d$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=200$ GeV

Author: Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., S'anchez, M. Calder'on de la Barca, campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, S., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huang, B., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, X., Li, W., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Li, C., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Page, B. S., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Smirnov, D., Solanki, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B. J., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A. N., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, G., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Z., Xu, Q. H., Xu, N., Xu, H., Xu, Y. F., Yang, Y., Yang, C., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Dihadron angular correlations in $d$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=200$ GeV are reported as a function of the measured zero-degree calorimeter neutral energy and the forward charged hadron multiplicity in the Au-beam direction. A finite correlated yield is observed at large relative pseudorapidity ($\Delta\eta$) on the near side (i.e. relative azimuth $\Delta\phi\sim0$). This correlated yield as a function of $\Delta\eta$ appears to scale with the dominant, primarily jet-related, away-side ($\Delta\phi\sim\pi$) yield. The Fourier coefficients of the $\Delta\phi$ correlation, $V_{n}=\langle\cos n\Delta\phi\rangle$, have a strong $\Delta\eta$ dependence. In addition, it is found that $V_{1}$ is approximately inversely proportional to the mid-rapidity event multiplicity, while $V_{2}$ is independent of it with similar magnitude in the forward ($d$-going) and backward (Au-going) directions., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2015
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9. Energy dependence of acceptance-corrected dielectron excess mass spectrum at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 19.6$ and 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., S'anchez, M. Calder'on de la Barca, campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, S., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huang, B., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, X., Li, W., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Li, C., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Page, B. S., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Smirnov, D., Solanki, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B. J., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A. N., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, G., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Z., Xu, Q. H., Xu, N., Xu, H., Xu, Y. F., Yang, Y., Yang, C., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The acceptance-corrected dielectron excess mass spectra, where the known hadronic sources have been subtracted from the inclusive dielectron mass spectra, are reported for the first time at mid-rapidity $|y_{ee}|<1$ in minimum-bias Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 19.6 and 200 GeV. The excess mass spectra are consistently described by a model calculation with a broadened $\rho$ spectral function for $M_{ee}<1.1$ GeV/$c^{2}$. The integrated dielectron excess yield at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 19.6 GeV for $0.4
Published: 2015
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10. Effect of event selection on jetlike correlation measurement in $d$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=200$ GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., S'anchez, M. Calder'on de la Barca, campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, S., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huang, B., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, X., Li, C., Li, W., Li, Z. M., Li, Y., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, L., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Ma, R., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Page, B. S., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M. K., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B. J., Sun, Z., Sun, Y., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, Z., Tang, A. H., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A. N., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, J. S., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Q. H., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Y. F., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, Y., Yang, Q., Yang, C., Yang, S., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, S., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. L., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Dihadron correlations are analyzed in $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} = 200$ GeV $d$+Au collisions classified by forward charged particle multiplicity and zero-degree neutral energy in the Au-beam direction. It is found that the jetlike correlated yield increases with the event multiplicity. After taking into account this dependence, the non-jet contribution on the away side is minimal, leaving little room for a back-to-back ridge in these collisions., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2014
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11. Energy Dependence of $K\pi$, $p\pi$, and $Kp$ Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions from $\rm \sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7 to 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, X., Chen, J. H., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, H. Z., Huang, B., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, W., Li, Z. M., Li, C., Li, Y., Li, X., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, L., Ma, R., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Page, B. S., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, S., Raniwala, R., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B. J., Sun, Z., Sun, Y., Sun, X. M., Sun, X., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A. N., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Wang, J. S., Wang, H., Wang, G., Webb, J. C., Webb, G., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, N., Xu, H., Xu, Y. F., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Z., Yang, Y., Yang, S., Yang, C., Yang, Q., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: A search for the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) critical point was performed by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, using dynamical fluctuations of unlike particle pairs. Heavy-ion collisions were studied over a large range of collision energies with homogeneous acceptance and excellent particle identification, covering a significant range in the QCD phase diagram where a critical point may be located. Dynamical $K\pi$, $p\pi$, and $Kp$ fluctuations as measured by the STAR experiment in central 0-5\% Au+Au collisions from center-of-mass collision energies $\rm \sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7 to 200 GeV are presented. The observable $\rm \nu_{dyn}$ was used to quantify the magnitude of the dynamical fluctuations in event-by-event measurements of the $K\pi$, $p\pi$, and $Kp$ pairs. The energy dependences of these fluctuations from central 0-5\% Au+Au collisions all demonstrate a smooth evolution with collision energy., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2014
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12. Di-Hadron Correlations with Identified Leading Hadrons in 200 GeV Au+Au and d+Au Collisions at STAR

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cervantes, M. C., Chakaberia, I., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, J. H., Chen, X., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Christie, W., Contin, G., Crawford, H. J., Das, S., De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Esha, R., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Federic, P., Fedorisin, J., Feng, Z., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Fulek, L., Gagliardi, C. A., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Hamad, A., Hamed, A., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., He, L., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, X., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Jiang, K., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kochenda, L., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, W., Li, Z. M., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, C., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, Y. G., Ma, R., Ma, G. L., Ma, L., Magdy, N., Majka, R., Manion, A., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., Meehan, K., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mishra, D., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Okorokov, V., Olvitt Jr., D., Page, B. S., Pak, R., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Posik, M., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, M. K., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Sikora, R., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Smirnov, D., Song, L., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stepanov, M., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Summa, B., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, N., Szelezniak, M. A., Tang, Z., Tang, A. H., Tarnowsky, T., Tawfik, A. N., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tripathy, S. K., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Upsal, I., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Varma, R., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Wen, L., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z. G., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, Q. H., Xu, N., Xu, H., Xu, Z., Xu, Y. F., Yang, Q., Yang, Y., Yang, C., Yang, S., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, S., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, L., Zhu, X., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The STAR collaboration presents for the first time two-dimensional di-hadron correlations with identified leading hadrons in 200 GeV central Au+Au and minimum-bias d+Au collisions to explore hadronization mechanisms in the quark gluon plasma. The enhancement of the jet-like yield for leading pions in Au+Au data with respect to the d+Au reference and the absence of such an enhancement for leading non-pions (protons and kaons) are discussed within the context of a quark recombination scenario. The correlated yield at large angles, specifically in the \emph{ridge region}, is found to be significantly higher for leading non-pions than pions. The consistencies of the constituent quark scaling, azimuthal harmonic model and a mini-jet modification model description of the data are tested, providing further constraints on hadronization.
Published: 2014
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13. Isolation of Flow and Nonflow Correlations by Two- and Four-Particle Cumulant Measurements of Azimuthal Harmonics in $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} =$ 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions

Author: Abdelwahab, N. M., Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderóndela Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Page, B. S., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: A data-driven method was applied to measurements of Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}} =$ 200 GeV made with the STAR detector at RHIC to isolate pseudorapidity distance $\Delta\eta$-dependent and $\Delta\eta$-independent correlations by using two- and four-particle azimuthal cumulant measurements. We identified a component of the correlation that is $\Delta\eta$-independent, which is likely dominated by anisotropic flow and flow fluctuations. It was also found to be independent of $\eta$ within the measured range of pseudorapidity $|\eta|<1$. The relative flow fluctuation was found to be $34\% \pm 2\% (stat.) \pm 3\% (sys.)$ for particles of transverse momentum $p_{T}$ less than $2$ GeV/$c$. The $\Delta\eta$-dependent part may be attributed to nonflow correlations, and is found to be $5\% \pm 2\% (sys.)$ relative to the flow of the measured second harmonic cumulant at $|\Delta\eta| > 0.7$.
Published: 2014
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14. Charged-to-neutral correlation at forward rapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abdelwahab, N. M., Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Page, B. S., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simko, M., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Event-by-event fluctuations of the ratio of inclusive charged to photon multiplicities at forward rapidity in Au+Au collision at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV have been studied. Dominant contribution to such fluctuations is expected to come from correlated production of charged and neutral pions. We search for evidences of dynamical fluctuations of different physical origins. Observables constructed out of moments of multiplicities are used as measures of fluctuations. Mixed events and model calculations are used as baselines. Results are compared to the dynamical net-charge fluctuations measured in the same acceptance. A non-zero statistically significant signal of dynamical fluctuations is observed in excess to the model prediction when charged particles and photons are measured in the same acceptance. We find that, unlike dynamical net-charge fluctuation, charge-neutral fluctuation is not dominated by correlation due to particle decay. Results are compared to the expectations based on the generic production mechanism of pions due to isospin symmetry, for which no significant (<1%) deviation is observed., Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2014
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15. Precision Measurement of the Longitudinal Double-spin Asymmetry for Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bultmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sanchez, M. Calderon de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cudd, A. B., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L. -X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report a new high-precision measurement of the mid-rapidity inclusive jet longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, in polarized $pp$ collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. The STAR data place stringent constraints on polarized parton distribution functions extracted at next-to-leading order from global analyses of inclusive deep inelastic scattering (DIS), semi-inclusive DIS, and RHIC $pp$ data. The measured asymmetries provide evidence for positive gluon polarization in the Bjorken-$x$ region $x>0.05$., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2014
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16. Measurement of longitudinal spin asymmetries for weak boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Campbell, J. M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of single- and double- spin asymmetries for $W^{\pm}$ and $Z/\gamma^*$ boson production in longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 510$ GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The asymmetries for $W^{\pm}$ were measured as a function of the decay lepton pseudorapidity, which provides a theoretically clean probe of the proton's polarized quark distributions at the scale of the $W$ mass. The results are compared to theoretical predictions, constrained by recent polarized deep inelastic scattering measurements, and show a preference for a sizable, positive up antiquark polarization in the range $0.05
Published: 2014
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17. Observation of $D^0$ meson nuclear modifications in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}$ = 200 GeV

Author: Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the first measurement of charmed-hadron ($D^0$) production via the hadronic decay channel ($D^0\rightarrow K^- + \pi^+$) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}}$ = 200\,GeV with the STAR experiment. The charm production cross-section per nucleon-nucleon collision at mid-rapidity scales with the number of binary collisions, $N_{bin}$, from $p$+$p$ to central Au+Au collisions. The $D^0$ meson yields in central Au+Au collisions are strongly suppressed compared to those in $p$+$p$ scaled by $N_{bin}$, for transverse momenta $p_{T}>3$ GeV/$c$, demonstrating significant energy loss of charm quarks in the hot and dense medium. An enhancement at intermediate $p_{T}$ is also observed. Model calculations including strong charm-medium interactions and coalescence hadronization describe our measurements., Comment: 7 pages including author list, 4 figures, submit to PRL with revised version
Published: 2014
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18. Beam-energy dependence of charge separation along the magnetic field in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Local parity-odd domains are theorized to form inside a Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) which has been produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The local parity-odd domains manifest themselves as charge separation along the magnetic field axis via the chiral magnetic effect (CME). The experimental observation of charge separation has previously been reported for heavy-ion collisions at the top RHIC energies. In this paper, we present the results of the beam-energy dependence of the charge correlations in Au+Au collisions at midrapidity for center-of-mass energies of 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39 and 62.4 GeV from the STAR experiment. After background subtraction, the signal gradually reduces with decreased beam energy, and tends to vanish by 7.7 GeV. The implications of these results for the CME will be discussed., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett (more model comparisons have been added in version 2)
Published: 2014
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19. Beam energy dependent two-pion interferometry and the freeze-out eccentricity of pions in heavy ion collisions at STAR

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present results of analyses of two-pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV measured in the STAR detector as part of the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program. The extracted correlation lengths (HBT radii) are studied as a function of beam energy, azimuthal angle relative to the reaction plane, centrality, and transverse mass ($m_{T}$) of the particles. The azimuthal analysis allows extraction of the eccentricity of the entire fireball at kinetic freeze-out. The energy dependence of this observable is expected to be sensitive to changes in the equation of state. A new global fit method is studied as an alternate method to directly measure the parameters in the azimuthal analysis. The eccentricity shows a monotonic decrease with beam energy that is qualitatively consistent with the trend from all model predictions and quantitatively consistent with a hadronic transport model., Comment: 27 pages; 27 figures
Published: 2014
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20. Beam-Energy Dependence of Directed Flow of Protons, Antiprotons and Pions in Au+Au Collisions

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Rapidity-odd directed flow($v_1$) measurements for charged pions, protons and antiprotons near mid-rapidity ($y=0$) are reported in $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV Au + Au collisions as recorded by the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). At intermediate impact parameters, the proton and net-proton slope parameter $dv_1/dy|_{y=0}$ shows a minimum between 11.5 and 19.6 GeV. In addition, the net-proton $dv_1/dy|_{y=0}$ changes sign twice between 7.7 and 39 GeV. The proton and net-proton results qualitatively resemble predictions of a hydrodynamic model with a first-order phase transition from hadronic matter to deconfined matter, and differ from hadronic transport calculations., Comment: Post-referee version, accepted by PRL. Fig. 2 now includes panels for 62.4 and 200 GeV
Published: 2014
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21. Dielectron Mass Spectra from Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderóndze la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the STAR measurements of dielectron ($e^+e^-$) production at midrapidity ($|y_{ee}|<$1) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200\,GeV. The measurements are evaluated in different invariant mass regions with a focus on 0.30-0.76 ($\rho$-like), 0.76-0.80 ($\omega$-like), and 0.98-1.05 ($\phi$-like) GeV/$c^{2}$. The spectrum in the $\omega$-like and $\phi$-like regions can be well described by the hadronic cocktail simulation. In the $\rho$-like region, however, the vacuum $\rho$ spectral function cannot describe the shape of the dielectron excess. In this range, an enhancement of 1.77$\pm$0.11(stat.)$\pm$0.24(sys.)$\pm$0.33(cocktail) is determined with respect to the hadronic cocktail simulation that excludes the $\rho$ meson. The excess yield in the $\rho$-like region increases with the number of collision participants faster than the $\omega$ and $\phi$ yields. Theoretical models with broadened $\rho$ contributions through interactions with constituents in the hot QCD medium provide a consistent description of the dilepton mass spectra for the measurement presented here and the earlier data at the Super Proton Synchrotron energies.
Published: 2013
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22. Suppression of Upsilon Production in d+Au and Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

Author: Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hill, K., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wimsatt, G., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of Upsilon meson production in p+p, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions using the STAR detector at RHIC. We compare the Upsilon yield to the measured cross section in p+p collisions in order to quantify any modifications of the yield in cold nuclear matter using d+Au data and in hot nuclear matter using Au+Au data separated into three centrality classes. Our p+p measurement is based on three times the statistics of our previous result. We obtain a nuclear modification factor for Upsilon(1S+2S+3S) in the rapidity range |y|<1 in d+Au collisions of R_dAu = 0.79 +/- 0.24 (stat.) +/- 0.03 (sys.) +/- 0.10 (pp sys.). A comparison with models including shadowing and initial state parton energy loss indicates the presence of additional cold-nuclear matter suppression. Similarly, in the top 10% most-central Au+Au collisions, we measure a nuclear modification factor of R_AA=0.49 +/- 0.1 (stat.) +/- 0.02 (sys.) +/- 0.06 (pp sys.), which is a larger suppression factor than that seen in cold nuclear matter. Our results are consistent with complete suppression of excited-state Upsilon mesons in Au+Au collisions. The additional suppression in Au+Au is consistent with the level expected in model calculations that include the presence of a hot, deconfined Quark-Gluon Plasma. However, understanding the suppression seen in d+Au is still needed before any definitive statements about the nature of the suppression in Au+Au can be made., Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2013
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23. $J/\psi$ polarization in p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV in STAR

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report on a polarization measurement of inclusive $J/\psi$ mesons in the di-electron decay channel at mid-rapidity at 2 $
Published: 2013
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24. $J/\psi$ production at low $p_T$ in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV at STAR

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The $\jpsi$ $\pt$ spectrum and nuclear modification factor ($\raa$) are reported for $\pt < 5 \ \gevc$ and $|y|<1$ from 0\% to 60\% central Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\snn = 200 \ \gev$ at STAR. A significant suppression of $\pt$-integrated $\jpsi$ production is observed in central Au+Au events. The Cu+Cu data are consistent with no suppression, although the precision is limited by the available statistics. $\raa$ in Au+Au collisions exhibits a strong suppression at low transverse momentum and gradually increases with $\pt$. The data are compared to high-$\pt$ STAR results and previously published BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider results. Comparing with model calculations, it is found that the invariant yields at low $\pt$ are significantly above hydrodynamic flow predictions but are consistent with models that include color screening and regeneration., Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures. Accepted by Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2013
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25. Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderóndela Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We report the beam energy (\sqrt s_{NN} = 7.7 - 200 GeV) and collision centrality dependence of the mean (M), standard deviation (\sigma), skewness (S), and kurtosis (\kappa) of the net-proton multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions. The measurements are carried out by the STAR experiment at midrapidity (|y| < 0.5) and within the transverse momentum range 0.4 < pT < 0.8 GeV/c in the first phase of the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. These measurements are important for understanding the Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) phase diagram. The products of the moments, S\sigma and \kappa\sigma^{2}, are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense medium created in the collisions and are related to the ratios of baryon number susceptibilities of corresponding orders. The products of moments are found to have values significantly below the Skellam expectation and close to expectations based on independent proton and anti-proton production. The measurements are compared to a transport model calculation to understand the effect of acceptance and baryon number conservation, and also to a hadron resonance gas model., Comment: 7 pages and 4 figures
Published: 2013
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26. Neutral pion cross section and spin asymmetries at intermediate pseudorapidity in polarized proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barber, B., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., He, W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Nord, P. M., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Pochron, W., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schaub, J., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The differential cross section and spin asymmetries for neutral pions produced within the intermediate pseudorapidity range 0.8 < {\eta} < 2.0 in polarized proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV are presented. Neutral pions were detected using the endcap electromagnetic calorimeter in the STAR detector at RHIC. The cross section was measured over a transverse momentum range of 5 < p_T < 16 GeV/c and is found to be within the scale uncertainty of a next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculation. The longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, A_LL, is measured in the same pseudorapidity range. This quantity is sensitive to the gluonic contribution to the proton spin, {\Delta}g(x), at low Bjorken-x (down to x approx 0.01), where it is less constrained by measurements at central pseudorapidity. The measured A_LL is consistent with model predictions. The parity-violating asymmetry, A_L, is also measured and found to be consistent with zero. The transverse single-spin asymmetry, A_N, is measured within a previously unexplored kinematic range in Feynman-x and p_T. Such measurements may aid our understanding of the on-set and kinematic dependence of the large asymmetries observed at more forward pseudorapidity ({\eta} approx 3) and their underlying mechanisms. The A_N results presented are consistent with a twist-3 model prediction of a small asymmetry within the present kinematic range., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, REVTeX 4.1, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. Changes for version 2: minor textual updates, modified discussion of gluonic polarization, clarified description of Fig. 4, and corrected sign convention in Fig. 8
Published: 2013
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27. Measurement of Charge Multiplicity Asymmetry Correlations in High Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Ostrowski, P., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Powell, C. B., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: A study is reported of the same- and opposite-sign charge-dependent azimuthal correlations with respect to the event plane in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV. The charge multiplicity asymmetries between the up/down and left/right hemispheres relative to the event plane are utilized. The contributions from statistical fluctuations and detector effects were subtracted from the (co-)variance of the observed charge multiplicity asymmetries. In the mid- to most-central collisions, the same- (opposite-) sign pairs are preferentially emitted in back-to-back (aligned on the same-side) directions. The charge separation across the event plane, measured by the difference, $\Delta$, between the like- and unlike-sign up/down $-$ left/right correlations, is largest near the event plane. The difference is found to be proportional to the event-by-event final-state particle ellipticity (via the observed second-order harmonic $v^{\rm obs}_{2}$), where $\Delta=(1.3\pm1.4({\rm stat})^{+4.0}_{-1.0}({\rm syst}))\times10^{-5}+(3.2\pm0.2({\rm stat})^{+0.4}_{-0.3}({\rm syst}))\times10^{-3}v^{\rm obs}_{2}$ for 20-40% Au+Au collisions. The implications for the proposed chiral magnetic effect are discussed., Comment: 27 pages, 25 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2013
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28. Jet-Hadron Correlations in sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV p+p and Central Au+Au Collisions

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Azimuthal angular correlations of charged hadrons with respect to the axis of a reconstructed (trigger) jet in Au+Au and p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}} = 200 \text{GeV}$ in STAR are presented. The trigger jet population in Au+Au collisions is biased towards jets that have not interacted with the medium, allowing easier matching of jet energies between Au+Au and p+p collisions while enhancing medium effects on the recoil jet. The associated hadron yield of the recoil jet is significantly suppressed at high transverse momentum ($p_{\text{T}}^{\text{assoc}}$) and enhanced at low $p_{\text{T}}^{\text{assoc}}$ in 0-20% central Au+Au collisions compared to p+p collisions, which is indicative of medium-induced parton energy loss in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions., Comment: v2 is the version accepted by PRL
Published: 2013
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29. Fluctuations of charge separation perpendicular to the event plane and local parity violation in sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, Yang, C., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Previous experimental results based on data (15 million events) collected by the STAR detector at RHIC suggest event-by-event charge separation fluctuations perpendicular to the event plane in non-central heavy-ion collisions. Here we present the correlator previously used split into its two component parts to reveal correlations parallel and perpendicular to the event plane. The results are from a high statistics 200 GeV Au+Au collisions data set (57 million events) collected by the STAR experiment. We explicitly count units of charge separation from which we find clear evidence for more charge separation fluctuations perpendicular than parallel to the event plane. We also employ a modified correlator to study the possible P-even background in same and opposite charge correlations, and find that the P-even background may largely be explained by momentum conservation and collective motion., Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2013

30. Freeze-out Dynamics via Charged Kaon Femtoscopy in sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Central Au+Au Collisions

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, Yang, C., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present measurements of three-dimensional correlation functions of like-sign low transverse momentum kaon pairs from sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. A Cartesian surface-spherical harmonic decomposition technique was used to extract the kaon source function. The latter was found to have a three-dimensional Gaussian shape and can be adequately reproduced by Therminator event generator simulations with resonance contributions taken into account. Compared to the pion one, the kaon source function is generally narrower and does not have the long tail along the pair transverse momentum direction. The kaon Gaussian radii display a monotonic decrease with increasing transverse mass m_T over the interval of 0.55<=m_T<=1.15 GeV/c^2. While the kaon radii are adequately described by the m_T-scaling in the outward and sideward directions, in the longitudinal direction the lowest m_T value exceeds the expectations from a pure hydrodynamical model prediction., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2013
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31. System size dependence of transverse momentum correlations at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 62.4 and 200 GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, Yang, C., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present a study of the average transverse momentum ($p_t$) fluctuations and $p_t$ correlations for charged particles produced in Cu+Cu collisions at midrapidity for $\sqrt{s_{NN}} =$ 62.4 and 200 GeV. These results are compared with those published for Au+Au collisions at the same energies, to explore the system size dependence. In addition to the collision energy and system size dependence, the $p_t$ correlation results have been studied as functions of the collision centralities, the ranges in $p_t$, the pseudorapidity $\eta$, and the azimuthal angle $\phi$. The square root of the measured $p_t$ correlations when scaled by mean $p_t$ is found to be independent of both colliding beam energy and system size studied. Transport-based model calculations are found to have a better quantitative agreement with the measurements compared to models which incorporate only jetlike correlations., Comment: 12 pages and 9 figures. Published in Physical Review C
Published: 2013
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32. Observation of an energy-dependent difference in elliptic flow between particles and anti-particles in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Author: Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, Yang, C., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Elliptic flow ($v_{2}$) values for identified particles at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions, measured by the STAR experiment in the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 7.7--62.4 GeV, are presented. A beam-energy dependent difference of the values of $v_{2}$ between particles and corresponding anti-particles was observed. The difference increases with decreasing beam energy and is larger for baryons compared to mesons. This implies that, at lower energies, particles and anti-particles are not consistent with the universal number-of-constituent-quark (NCQ) scaling of $v_{2}$ that was observed at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 200 GeV.
Published: 2013
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33. Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 7.7--62.4 GeV

Author: Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, Yang, C., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of the elliptic flow, $v_{2}$, of identified hadrons ($\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $K_{s}^{0}$, $p$, $\bar{p}$, $\phi$, $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $\Xi^{-}$, $\bar{\Xi}^{+}$, $\Omega^{-}$, $\bar{\Omega}^{+}$) in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39 and 62.4 GeV are presented. The measurements were done at mid-rapidity using the Time Projection Chamber and the Time-of-Flight detectors of the STAR experiment during the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC. A significant difference in the $v_{2}$ values for particles and the corresponding anti-particles was observed at all transverse momenta for the first time. The difference increases with decreasing center-of-mass energy, $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ (or increasing baryon chemical potential, $\mu_{B}$) and is larger for the baryons as compared to the mesons. This implies that particles and anti-particles are no longer consistent with the universal number-of-constituent quark (NCQ) scaling of $v_{2}$ that was observed at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 200 GeV. However, for the group of particles NCQ scaling at $(m_{T}-m_{0})/n_{q}>$ 0.4 GeV/$c^{2}$ is not violated within $\pm$10%. The $v_{2}$ values for $\phi$ mesons at 7.7 and 11.5 GeV are approximately two standard deviations from the trend defined by the other hadrons at the highest measured $p_{T}$ values.
Published: 2013
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34. Third Harmonic Flow of Charged Particles in Au+Au Collisions at sqrtsNN = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L. -X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of the third harmonic coefficient of the azimuthal anisotropy, v_3, known as triangular flow. The analysis is for charged particles in Au+Au collisions at sqrtsNN = 200 GeV, based on data from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Two-particle correlations as a function of their pseudorapidity separation are fit with narrow and wide Gaussians. Measurements of triangular flow are extracted from the wide Gaussian, from two-particle cumulants with a pseudorapidity gap, and also from event plane analysis methods with a large pseudorapidity gap between the particles and the event plane. These results are reported as a function of transverse momentum and centrality. A large dependence on the pseudorapidity gap is found. Results are compared with other experiments and model calculations., Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2013
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35. Single Spin Asymmetry $A_N$ in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Ostrowski, P., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report a high precision measurement of the transverse single spin asymmetry $A_N$ at the center of mass energy $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV in elastic proton-proton scattering by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The $A_N$ was measured in the four-momentum transfer squared $t$ range $0.003 \leqslant |t| \leqslant 0.035$ $\GeVcSq$, the region of a significant interference between the electromagnetic and hadronic scattering amplitudes. The measured values of $A_N$ and its $t$-dependence are consistent with a vanishing hadronic spin-flip amplitude, thus providing strong constraints on the ratio of the single spin-flip to the non-flip amplitudes. Since the hadronic amplitude is dominated by the Pomeron amplitude at this $\sqrt{s}$, we conclude that this measurement addresses the question about the presence of a hadronic spin flip due to the Pomeron exchange in polarized proton-proton elastic scattering., Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2012
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36. Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry and Cross-Section for pi0 and eta Mesons at Large Feynman-x in Polarized p+p Collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV

Author: The STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Bannerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Ostrowski, P., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr, C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of the differential cross-section and the transverse single-spin asymmetry, A_N, vs. x_F for pi0 and eta mesons are reported for 0.4 < x_F < 0.75 at an average pseudorapidity of 3.68. A data sample of approximately 6.3 pb^{-1} was analyzed, which was recorded during p+p collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment at RHIC. The average transverse beam polarization was 56%. The cross-section for pi0 is consistent with a perturbative QCD prediction, and the eta/pi0 cross-section ratio agrees with previous mid-rapidity measurements. For 0.55 < x_F < 0.75, A_N for eta (0.210 +- 0.056) is 2.2 standard deviations larger than A_N for pi0 (0.081 +- 0.016)., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D R.C
Published: 2012
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37. Longitudinal and transverse spin asymmetries for inclusive jet production at mid-rapidity in polarized p+p collisions at sqrt{s}=200 GeV

Author: The STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kowalik, K., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Millane, J., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Ostrowski, P., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Sakuma, T., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Sarsour, M., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Staszak, D., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report STAR measurements of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry A_LL, the transverse single-spin asymmetry A_N, and the transverse double-spin asymmetries A_Sigma and A_TT for inclusive jet production at mid-rapidity in polarized p+p collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt{s} = 200 GeV. The data represent integrated luminosities of 7.6 /pb with longitudinal polarization and 1.8 /pb with transverse polarization, with 50-55% beam polarization, and were recorded in 2005 and 2006. No evidence is found for the existence of statistically significant jet A_N, A_Sigma, or A_TT at mid-rapidity. Recent model calculations indicate the A_N results may provide new limits on the gluon Sivers distribution in the proton. The asymmetry A_LL significantly improves the knowledge of gluon polarization in the nucleon., Comment: 18 pages, 16 figures, 8 tables
Published: 2012

38. Measurements of $D^{0}$ and $D^{*}$ Production in $p$ + $p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Ostrowski, P., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of charmed-hadron ($D^{0}$, $D^{*}$) production cross sections at mid-rapidity in $p$ + $p$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV by the STAR experiment. Charmed hadrons were reconstructed via the hadronic decays $D^{0}\rightarrow K^{-}\pi^{+}$, $D^{*+}\rightarrow D^{0}\pi^{+}\rightarrow K^{-}\pi^{+}\pi^{+}$ and their charge conjugates, covering the $p_T$ range of 0.6$-$2.0 GeV/$c$ and 2.0$-$6.0 GeV/$c$ for $D^{0}$ and $D^{*+}$, respectively. From this analysis, the charm-pair production cross section at mid-rapidity is $d\sigma/dy|_{y=0}^{c\bar{c}}$ = 170 $\pm$ 45 (stat.) $^{+38}_{-59}$ (sys.) $\mu$b. The extracted charm-pair cross section is compared to perturbative QCD calculations. The transverse momentum differential cross section is found to be consistent with the upper bound of a Fixed-Order Next-to-Leading Logarithm calculation., Comment: 15 pages, 16 figures. Revised version submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Published: 2012
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39. Di-electron spectrum at mid-rapidity in $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV

Author: Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Ostrowski, P., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report on mid-rapidity mass spectrum of di-electrons and cross sections of pseudoscalar and vector mesons via $e^{+}e^{-}$ decays, from $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV $p+p$ collisions, measured by the large acceptance experiment STAR at RHIC. The ratio of the di-electron continuum to the combinatorial background is larger than 10% over the entire mass range. Simulations of di-electrons from light-meson decays and heavy-flavor decays (charmonium and open charm correlation) are found to describe the data. The extracted $\omega\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$ invariant yields are consistent with previous measurements. The mid-rapidity yields ($dN/dy$) of $\phi$ and $J/\psi$ are extracted through their di-electron decay channels and are consistent with the previous measurements of $\phi\rightarrow K^{+}K^{-}$ and $J/\psi\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$. Our results suggest a new upper limit of the branching ratio of the $\eta \rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$ of $1.7\times10^{-5}$ at 90% confidence level., Comment: 15 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables. Published
Published: 2012
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40. Measurement of the $W \to e \nu$ and $Z/\gamma^* \to e^+e^-$ Production Cross Sections at Mid-rapidity in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of the charge-separated $W^{+(-)} \to e^{+(-)} + \nu_e(\bar{\nu}_e)$ and $Z/\gamma^* \to e^+e^-$ production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV. These results are based on 13.2 pb$^{-1}$ of data recorded in 2009 by the STAR detector at RHIC. Production cross sections for W bosons that decay via the $e \nu$ channel were measured to be $\sigma(pp \to W^+ X) \cdot BR(W^+ \to e^+ \nu_e)$ = 117.3 \pm 5.9(stat) \pm 6.2(syst) \pm 15.2(lumi) pb, and $\sigma(pp \to W^- X) \cdot BR(W^- \to e^- \bar{\nu}_e)$ = 43.3 \pm 4.6(stat) \pm 3.4(syst) \pm 5.6(lumi) pb. For $Z/\gamma^*$ production, $\sigma(pp \to Z/\gamma^* X) \cdot BR(Z/\gamma^* \to e^+ e^-)$ = 7.7 \pm 2.1(stat) $^{+0.5}_{-0.9}$(syst) \pm 1.0(lumi) pb for di-lepton invariant masses $m_{e^+e^-}$ between 70 and 110 GeV/$c^2$. First measurements of the W cross section ratio, $\sigma(pp \to W^+ X) / \sigma(pp \to W^- X)$, at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections., Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2011
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41. Energy and system-size dependence of two- and four-particle $v_2$ measurements in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and their implications on flow fluctuations and nonflow

Author: The STAR Collaboration, Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Calderon, M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., de Souza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present STAR measurements of azimuthal anisotropy by means of the two- and four-particle cumulants $v_2$ ($v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$) for Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at center of mass energies $\sqrt{s_{_{\mathrm{NN}}}} = 62.4$ and 200 GeV. The difference between $v_2\{2\}^2$ and $v_2\{4\}^2$ is related to $v_{2}$ fluctuations ($\sigma_{v_2}$) and nonflow $(\delta_{2})$. We present an upper limit to $\sigma_{v_2}/v_{2}$. Following the assumption that eccentricity fluctuations $\sigma_{\epsilon}$ dominate $v_2$ fluctuations $\frac{\sigma_{v_2}}{v_2} \approx \frac{\sigma_{\epsilon}}{\epsilon}$ we deduce the nonflow implied for several models of eccentricity fluctuations that would be required for consistency with $v_2\{2\}$ and $v_2\{4\}$. We also present results on the ratio of $v_2$ to eccentricity., Comment: 15 pages, 12 Figures
Published: 2011
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42. System size and energy dependence of near-side di-hadron correlations

Author: STAR Collaboration, Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Barnby, L. S., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bombara, M., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gaillard, L., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jones, P. G., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nattrass, C., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbæ, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Two-particle azimuthal ($\Delta\phi$) and pseudorapidity ($\Delta\eta$) correlations using a trigger particle with large transverse momentum ($p_T$) in $d$+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{{NN}}}$ =\xspace 62.4 GeV and 200~GeV from the STAR experiment at RHIC are presented. The \ns correlation is separated into a jet-like component, narrow in both $\Delta\phi$ and $\Delta\eta$, and the ridge, narrow in $\Delta\phi$ but broad in $\Delta\eta$. Both components are studied as a function of collision centrality, and the jet-like correlation is studied as a function of the trigger and associated $p_T$. The behavior of the jet-like component is remarkably consistent for different collision systems, suggesting it is produced by fragmentation. The width of the jet-like correlation is found to increase with the system size. The ridge, previously observed in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV, is also found in Cu+Cu collisions and in collisions at $\sqrt{s_{{NN}}}$ =\xspace 62.4 GeV, but is found to be substantially smaller at $\sqrt{s_{{NN}}}$ =\xspace 62.4 GeV than at $\sqrt{s_{{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV for the same average number of participants ($ \langle N_{\mathrm{part}}\rangle$). Measurements of the ridge are compared to models., Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2011
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43. Directed and elliptic flow of charged particles in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{\bm {s_{NN}}} =$ 22.4 GeV

Author: Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Beavis, D. R., Behera, N. K., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Choi, K. E., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jin, F., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Knospe, A. G., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Krus, M., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, N., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, 1 L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, J., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Peitzmann, T., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Ploskon, M. A., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schaub, J., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Subba, N. L., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: This paper reports results for directed flow $v_{1}$ and elliptic flow $v_{2}$ of charged particles in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 22.4 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The measurements are for the 0-60% most central collisions, using charged particles observed in the STAR detector. Our measurements extend to 22.4 GeV Cu+Cu collisions the prior observation that $v_1$ is independent of the system size at 62.4 and 200 GeV, and also extend the scaling of $v_1$ with $\eta/y_{\rm beam}$ to this system. The measured $v_2(p_T)$ in Cu+Cu collisions is similar for $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 22.4-200$ GeV. We also report a comparison with results from transport model (UrQMD and AMPT) calculations. The model results do not agree quantitatively with the measured $v_1(\eta), v_2(p_T)$ and $v_2(\eta)$., Comment: 10 pages,9 figures: Introduction part of the paper is expanded, Fig 9 is changed slightly, more discussion on summary
Published: 2011
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44. Anomalous centrality evolution of two-particle angular correlations from Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 62 and 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Calderon, M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Peitzmann, T., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schaub, J., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., de Souza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present two-dimensional (2D) two-particle angular correlations on relative pseudorapidity $\eta$ and azimuth $\phi$ for charged particles from Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 62$ and 200 GeV with transverse momentum $p_t \geq 0.15$ GeV/$c$, $|\eta| \leq 1$ and $2\pi$ azimuth. Observed correlations include a {same-side} (relative azimuth $< \pi/2$) 2D peak, a closely-related away-side azimuth dipole, and an azimuth quadrupole conventionally associated with elliptic flow. The same-side 2D peak and away-side dipole are explained by semihard parton scattering and fragmentation (minijets) in proton-proton and peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions. Those structures follow N-N binary-collision scaling in Au-Au collisions until mid-centrality where a transition to a qualitatively different centrality trend occurs within a small centrality interval. Above the transition point the number of same-side and away-side correlated pairs increases rapidly {relative to} binary-collision scaling, the $\eta$ width of the same-side 2D peak also increases rapidly ($\eta$ elongation) and the $\phi$ width actually decreases significantly. Those centrality trends are more remarkable when contrasted with expectations of jet quenching in a dense medium. Observed centrality trends are compared to {\sc hijing} predictions and to the expected trends for semihard parton scattering and fragmentation in a thermalized opaque medium. We are unable to reconcile a semihard parton scattering and fragmentation origin for the observed correlation structure and centrality trends with heavy ion collision scenarios which invoke rapid parton thermalization. On the other hand, if the collision system is effectively opaque to few-GeV partons the observations reported here would be inconsistent with a minijet picture., Comment: 26 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2011
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45. Strangeness Enhancement in Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Agakishiev, H., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Barnby, L. S., Beavis, D. R., Behera, N. K., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Biritz, B., Bland, L. C., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chajecki, Z., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Choi, K. E., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Dash, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geromitsos, A., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O., Grosnick, D., Guertin, S. M., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jones, P. G., Jena, C., Jin, F., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Knospe, A. G., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Krus, M., Kumar, L., Kurnadi, P., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, N., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, J., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Love, W. A., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Mangotra, L. K., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., Matulenko, Yu. A., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, A., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nayak, T. K., Netrakanti, P. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Peitzmann, T., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Phatak, S. C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Ploskon, M. A., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Poskanzer, A. M., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Rose, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakai, S., Sakrejda, I., Sakuma, T., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Staszak, D., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Subba, N. L., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Tram, V. N., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, W., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneev, R., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report new STAR measurements of mid-rapidity yields for the $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $K^{0}_{S}$, $\Xi^{-}$, $\bar{\Xi}^{+}$, $\Omega^{-}$, $\bar{\Omega}^{+}$ particles in Cu+Cu collisions at \sNN{200}, and mid-rapidity yields for the $\Lambda$, $\bar{\Lambda}$, $K^{0}_{S}$ particles in Au+Au at \sNN{200}. We show that at a given number of participating nucleons, the production of strange hadrons is higher in Cu+Cu collisions than in Au+Au collisions at the same center-of-mass energy. We find that aspects of the enhancement factors for all particles can be described by a parameterization based on the fraction of participants that undergo multiple collisions.
Published: 2011
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46. Studies of di-jet survival and surface emission bias in Au+Au collisions via angular correlations with respect to back-to-back leading hadrons

Author: Agakishiev, H., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Beavis, D. R., Behera, N. K., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Biritz, B., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Calderon, M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chajecki, Z., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Choi, K. E., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Dash, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geromitsos, A., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Guertin, S. M., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jin, F., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Knospe, A. G., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Krus, M., Kumar, L., Kurnadi, P., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, N., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, J., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Love, W. A., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Mangotra, L. K., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., Matulenko, Yu. A., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, A., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nayak, T. K., Netrakanti, P. K., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Peitzmann, T., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Phatak, S. C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Ploskon, M. A., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Rose, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakai, S., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Staszak, D., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Subba, N. L., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Tram, V. N., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, W., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneev, R., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report first results from an analysis based on a new multi-hadron correlation technique, exploring jet-medium interactions and di-jet surface emission bias at RHIC. Pairs of back-to-back high transverse momentum hadrons are used for triggers to study associated hadron distributions. In contrast with two- and three-particle correlations with a single trigger with similar kinematic selections, the associated hadron distribution of both trigger sides reveals no modification in either relative pseudo-rapidity or relative azimuthal angle from d+Au to central Au+Au collisions. We determine associated hadron yields and spectra as well as production rates for such correlated back-to-back triggers to gain additional insights on medium properties., Comment: By the STAR Collaboration. 6 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2011
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47. Measurements of Dihadron Correlations Relative to the Event Plane in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=200$ GeV

Author: Agakishiev, H., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Beavis, D. R., Behera, N. K., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Biritz, B., Bland, L. C., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sanchez, M. Calderon de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chajecki, Z., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Choi, K. E., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Dash, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Feng, A., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geromitsos, A., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O., Grosnick, D., Guertin, S. M., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., Hofmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jin, F., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Knospe, A. G., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Krus, M., Kumar, L., Kurnadi, P., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, N., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, J., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Love, W. A., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Mangotra, L. K., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., Matulenko, Yu. A., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, A., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nayak, T. K., Netrakanti, P. K., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, Ohlson, Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Peitzmann, T., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Phatak, S. C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Ploskon, M. A., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Poskanzer, A. M., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Rose, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakai, S., Sakrejda, I., Sakuma, T., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Staszak, D., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Subba, N. L., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Tram, V. N., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, W., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneev, R., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Dihadron azimuthal correlations containing a high transverse momentum ($p_T$) trigger particle are sensitive to the properties of the nuclear medium created at RHIC through the strong interactions occurring between the traversing parton and the medium, i.e. jet-quenching. Previous measurements revealed a strong modification to dihadron azimuthal correlations in Au+Au collisions with respect to p+p and d+Au collisions. The modification increases with the collision centrality, suggesting a path-length or energy density dependence to the jet-quenching effect. This paper reports STAR measurements of dihadron azimuthal correlations in mid-central (20-60%) Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=200$ GeV as a function of the trigger particle's azimuthal angle relative to the event plane, $\phi_s=|\phi_t-\psi_{\rm EP}|$. The azimuthal correlation is studied as a function of both the trigger and associated particle $p_T$. The subtractions of the combinatorial background and anisotropic flow, assuming Zero Yield At Minimum (ZYAM), are described. The correlation results are first discussed with subtraction of the even harmonic (elliptic and quadrangular) flow backgrounds. The away-side correlation is strongly modified, and the modification varies with $\phi_s$, with a double-peak structure for out-of-plane trigger particles. The near-side ridge (long range pseudo-rapidity $\Delta\eta$ correlation) appears to drop with increasing $\phi_s$ while the jet-like component remains approximately constant. The correlation functions are further studied with subtraction of odd harmonic triangular flow background arising from fluctuations. It is found that the triangular flow, while responsible for the majority of the amplitudes, is not sufficient to explain the $\phi_s$-dependence of the ridge or the away-side double-peak structure. ..., Comment: 54 pages, 40 figures, 6 tables. As published
Published: 2010
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48. An Experimental Exploration of the QCD Phase Diagram: The Search for the Critical Point and the Onset of De-confinement

Author: STAR Collaboration, Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Barnby, L. S., Baumgart, S., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Biritz, B., Bland, L. C., Bonner, B. E., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., CalderóndelaBarcaSánchez, M., Catu, O., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chajecki, Z., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Choi, K. E., Christie, W., Chung, P., Clarke, R. F., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Das, D., Dash, S., DavilaLeyva, A., DeSilva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Derevschikov, A. A., DerradideSouza, R., Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Dunlop, J. C., DuttaMazumdar, M. R., Efimov, L. G., Elhalhuli, E., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Erazmus, B., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fachini, P., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Ganti, M. S., Garcia, E. J., Solis, Geromitsos, A., Geurts, F., Ghazikhanian, V., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O., Grosnick, D., Guertin, S. M., Gupta, A., Gupta, N., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, LX., Harris, J. W., HaysWehle, J. P., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., Hoffman, A. M., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jin, F., Jones, C. L., Jones, P. G., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kajimoto, K., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Klein, S. R., Knospe, A. G., Kocoloski, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Krus, M., Kumar, L., Kurnadi, P., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, H., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, N., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lin, G., Lindenbaum, S. J., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, J., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Love, W. A., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Mangotra, L. K., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., Matulenko, Yu. A., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, A., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Nandi, B. K., Nattrass, C., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Netrakanti, P. K., Ng, M. J., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Peitzmann, T., Perevoztchikov, V., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Phatak, S. C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Ploskon, M. A., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Poskanzer, A. M., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Rose, A., Roy, C., Ruan, L., Sahoo, R., Sakai, S., Sakrejda, I., Sakuma, T., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Sorensen, P., Sowinski, J., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Staszak, D., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Subba, N. L., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., SzantodeToledo, A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Timoshenko, S., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Tram, V. N., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tsai, O. D., Ulery, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., VanBuren, G., vanLeeuwen, M., vanNieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., WhittenJr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xie, W., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, IK., Yue, Q., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, W., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneev, R., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The QCD phase diagram lies at the heart of what the RHIC Physics Program is all about. While RHIC has been operating very successfully at or close to its maximum energy for almost a decade, it has become clear that this collider can also be operated at lower energies down to 5 GeV without extensive upgrades. An exploration of the full region of beam energies available at the RHIC facility is imperative. The STAR detector, due to its large uniform acceptance and excellent particle identification capabilities, is uniquely positioned to carry out this program in depth and detail. The first exploratory beam energy scan (BES) run at RHIC took place in 2010 (Run 10), since several STAR upgrades, most importantly a full barrel Time of Flight detector, are now completed which add new capabilities important for the interesting physics at BES energies. In this document we discuss current proposed measurements, with estimations of the accuracy of the measurements given an assumed event count at each beam energy., Comment: 59 pages, 78 figures
Published: 2010

49. K*0 production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 GeV and 200 GeV

Author: Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, Daniel, Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Barnby, L. S., Baumgart, S., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Biritz, B., Bland, L. C., Bonner, B. E., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Calderon, M., Catu, O., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chajecki, Z., chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Choi, K. E., Christie, W., Chung, P., Clarke, R. F., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Das, D., Dash, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Dunlop, J. C., Mazumdar, M. R. Dutta, Efimov, L. G., Elhalhuli, E., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Erazmus, B., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fachini, P., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Ganti, M. S., Garcia-Solis, E. J., Geromitsos, A., Geurts, F., Ghazikhanian, V., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O., Grosnick, D., Guertin, S. M., Gupta, A., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., Hoffman, A. M., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jin, F., Jones, C. L., Jones, P. G., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kajimoto, K., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Knospe, A. G., Kocoloski, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Krus, M., Kumar, L., Kurnadi, P., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, C-H., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, N., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lin, G., Lindenbaum, S. J., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, J., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Love, W. A., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Mangotra, L. K., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., Matulenko, Yu. A., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, A., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Nandi, B. K., Nattrass, C., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Netrakanti, P. K., Ng, M. J., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Peitzmann, T., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Phatak, S. C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Ploskon, M. A., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Poskanzer, A. M., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Rose, A., Roy, C., Ruan, L., Sahoo, R., Sakai, S., Sakrejda, I., Sakuma, T., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Sorensen, P., Sowinski, J., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Staszak, D., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Subba, N. L., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Timoshenko, S., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Tram, V. N., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tsai, O. D., Ulery, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Leeuwen, M., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yue, Q., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, W., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneev, R., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We report on K*0 production at mid-rapidity in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 62.4 and 200 GeV collected by the Solenoid Tracker at RHIC (STAR) detector. The K*0 is reconstructed via the hadronic decays K*0 \to K+ pi- and \bar{K*0} \to K-pi+. Transverse momentum, pT, spectra are measured over a range of pT extending from 0.2 GeV/c to 5 GeV/c. The center of mass energy and system size dependence of the rapidity density, dN/dy, and the average transverse momentum, , are presented. The measured N(K*0)/N(K) and N(\phi)/N(K*0) ratios favor the dominance of re-scattering of decay daughters of K*0 over the hadronic regeneration for the K*0 production. In the intermediate pT region (2.0 < pT < 4.0 GeV/c), the elliptic flow parameter, v2, and the nuclear modification factor, RCP, agree with the expectations from the quark coalescence model of particle production., Comment: 14 pages and 13 figures
Published: 2010
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50. Higher Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

Author: Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Barnby, L. S., Baumgart, S., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Biritz, B., Bland, L. C., Bonner, 3 B. E., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bridgeman, A., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Catu, O., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chajecki, Z., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Choi, K. E., Christie, W., Chung, P., Clarke, R. F., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Das, D., Dash, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Dunlop, J. C., Mazumdar, M. R. Dutta, Efimov, L. G., Elhalhuli, E., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Erazmus, B., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fachini, P., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Ganti, M. S., Garcia-Solis, E. J., Geromitsos, A., Geurts, F., Ghazikhanian, V., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O., Grosnick, D., Guertin, S. M., Gupta, A., Gupta, N., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., Hoffman, A. M., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Jin, F., Jones, C. L., Jones, P. G., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kajimoto, K., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Klein, S. R., Knospe, A. G., Kocoloski, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Krus, M., Kumar, L., Kurnadi, P., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, C-H., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, N., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lin, G., Lindenbaum, S. J., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, J., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Love, W. A., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Mangotra, L. K., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., Matulenko, Yu. A., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, A., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohanty, B., Morozov, M. M. Mondal. B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Nandi, B. K., Nattrass, C., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Netrakanti, P. K., Ng, M. J., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Peitzmann, T., Perevoztchikov, V., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Phatak, S. C., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Ploskon, M. A., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Poskanzer, A. M., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevsky, O. V., Romero, J. L., Rose, A., Roy, C., Ruan, L., Sahoo, R., Sakai, S., Sakrejda, I., Sakuma, T., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Sorensen, P., Sowinski, J., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Staszak, D., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Subba, N. L., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Timoshenko, S., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Tram, V. N., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tsai, O. D., Ulery, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Leeuwen, M., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yue, Q., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhou, J., Zhou, W., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneev, R., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We report the first measurements of the kurtosis (\kappa), skewness (S) and variance (\sigma^2) of net-proton multiplicity (N_p - N_pbar) distributions at midrapidity for Au+Au collisions at \sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6, 62.4, and 200 GeV corresponding to baryon chemical potentials (\mu_B) between 200 - 20 MeV. Our measurements of the products \kappa \sigma^2 and S \sigma, which can be related to theoretical calculations sensitive to baryon number susceptibilities and long range correlations, are constant as functions of collision centrality. We compare these products with results from lattice QCD and various models without a critical point and study the \sqrt(s_NN) dependence of \kappa \sigma^2. From the measurements at the three beam energies, we find no evidence for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram for \mu_B below 200 MeV., Comment: 6 pages and 4 figures. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Published: 2010
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