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1. neuSIM4: A comprehensive GEANT4 based neutron simulation code

Author: Park, J., Teh, F. C. E., Tsang, M. B., Brown, K. W., Chajecki, Z., Hong, B., Lokotko, T., Lynch, W. G., Wieske, J., and Zhu, K.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: A new neutron SIMulation program based on the versatile GEANT4 toolkit, neuSIM4, has been developed to describe interactions of neutrons in the NE213 liquid scintillator from 0.1 to 3000 MeV. neuSIM4 is designed to accommodate complicated modern detector geometry setups with multiple scintillator detectors, each of which can be outfitted with more than one photo-multiplier. To address a broad spectrum of neutron energies, two new neutron interaction physics models, KSCIN and NxQMD, have been implemented in GEANT4. For neutrons with energy below 110 MeV, we incorporate a total of eleven neutron induced reaction channels on hydrogen and carbon nuclei, including nine carbon inelastic reaction channels, into KSCIN. Beyond 110 MeV, we implement a neutron induced reaction model, NxQMD, in GEANT4. We use its results as reference to evaluate other neutron-interaction physics models in GEANT4. We find that results from an existing cascade physics model (INCL) in GEANT4 agree very well with the results from NxQMD, and results from both codes agree with new and existing light response data. To connect KSCIN to NxQMD or INCL, we introduce a transition region where the contribution of neuSIM4 linearly decreases with corresponding increased contributions from NxQMD or INCL. To demonstrate the application of the new code, we simulate the light response and performance of a 2 x 2 m2 neutron detector wall array consisting of 25 2m-long scintillation bars. We are able to compare the predicted light response functions to the shape of the experimental response functions and calculate the efficiency of the neutron detector array for neutron energies up to 200 MeV. These simulation results will be pivotal for understanding the performance of modern neutron arrays with intricate geometries, especially in the measurements of neutron energy spectra in heavy-ion reactions.
Published: 2024
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2. Strong evidence for 9N and the limits of existence of atomic nuclei

Author: Charity, R. J., Wylie, J., Wang, S. M., Webb, T. B., Brown, K. W., Cerizza, G., Chajecki, Z., Elson, J. M., Estee, J., Hoff, D. E. M, Kuvin, S. A., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., Michel, N., McNeel, D. G., Morfouace, P., Nazarewicz, W., Pruitt, C. D., Santamaria, C., Sweany, S., Smith, J., Sobotka, L. G., Tsang, M. B., and Wuosmaa, A. H.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The boundaries of the Chart of Nuclides contain exotic isotopes that possess extreme proton-toneutron asymmetries. Here we report on strong evidence of 9N, one of the most exotic proton-rich isotopes where more than one half of its constitute nucleons are unbound. With seven protons and two neutrons, this extremely proton-rich system would represent the first-known example of a ground-state five-proton emitter. The invariant-mass spectrum of its decay products can be fit with two peaks whose energies are consistent with the theoretical predictions of an open-quantum-system approach, however we cannot rule out the possibility that only a single resonance-like peak is present in the spectrum., Comment: 4 figures, 7pages
Published: 2023

3. Determination of energy-dependent neutron backgrounds using shadow bars

Author: Paneru, S. N., Brown, K. W., Teh, F. C. E, Zhu, K., Tsang, M. B., DellAquila, D., Chajecki, Z., Lynch, W. G., Sweany, S., Tsang, C. Y., Anthony, A. K., Barney, J., Estee, J., Gasparic, I., Jhang, G., Khanal, O. B., Mandredi, J., Niu, C. Y., Wang, R. S., and Zamora, J. C.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Understanding the neutron background is essential for determining the neutron yield from nuclear reactions. In the analysis presented here, the shadow bars are placed in front of neutron detectors to determine the energy dependent neutron background fractions. The measurement of neutron spectra with and without shadow bars is important to determine the neutron background more accurately. The neutron background, along with its sources and systematic uncertainties, are explored with a focus on the impact of background models and their dependence on neutron energy., Comment: 7 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2022
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4. Beam Particle Identification and Tagging of Incompletely Stripped Heavy Beams with HEIST

Author: Anthony, A. K., Niu, C. Y., Wang, R. S., Wieske, J., Brown, K. W., Chajecki, Z., Lynch, W. G., Ayyad, Y., Barney, J., Baumann, T., Bazin, D., Beceiro-Novo, S., Boza, J., Chen, J., Cook, K. J., Cortesi, M., Ginter, T., Mittig, W., Pype, A., Smith, M. K., Soto, C., Sumithrarachchi, C., Swaim, J., Sweany, S., Teh, F. C. E., Tsang, M. B., Tsang, C. Y., Watwood, N., and Wuosmaa, A. H.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: A challenge preventing successful inverse kinematics measurements with heavy nuclei that are not fully stripped is identifying and tagging the beam particles. For this purpose, the HEavy ISotope Tagger (HEIST) has been developed. HEIST utilizes two micro-channel plate timing detectors to measure time of flight, a multi-sampling ion chamber to measure energy loss, and a high purity Ge detector to identify isomer decays and calibrate the isotope identification system. HEIST has successfully identified $^{198}$Pb and other nearby nuclei at energies of about 75 MeV/A. In the experiment discussed, a typical cut containing 89\% of all $^{198}$Pb$^{+80}$ in the beam had a purity of 86\%. We examine the issues of charge state contamination. The observed charge state populations of these ions are presented and are moderately well described by the charge state model GLOBAL., Comment: The following article has been submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments
Published: 2021
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5. Reaction Losses of Charged Particles in CsI(Tl) crystals

Author: Sweany, S., Lynch, W. G., Brown, K., Anthony, A., Chajecki, Z., Dell'Aquila, D., Morfouace, P., Teh, F. C. E., Tsang, C. Y., Tsang, M. B., Wang, R. S., and Zhu, K.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: To efficiently detect energetic light charged particles, it is common to use arrays of energy-loss telescopes involving two or more layers of detection media. As the energy of the particles increases, thicker layers are usually needed. However, carrying out measurements with thick-telescopes may require corrections for the losses due to nuclear reactions induced by the incident particles on nuclei within the detector and for the scattering of incident particles out of the detector, without depositing their full energy in the active material. In this paper, we develop a method for measuring such corrections and determine the reaction and out-scattering losses for data measured with the silicon-CsI(Tl) telescopes of the newly developed HiRA10 array. The extracted efficiencies are in good agreement with model predictions using the GEANT4 reaction loss algorithm for Z=1 and Z=2 isotopes. After correcting for the HiRA10 geometry, a general function that describes the efficiencies from the reaction loss in CsI(Tl) crystals as a function of range is obtained., Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2021
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6. Using spin alignment of inelastically-excited fast beams to make spin assignments: the spectroscopy of 13O as a test case

Author: Charity, R. J., Webb, T. B., Elson, J. M., Hoff, D. E. M., Pruitt, C. D., Sobotka, L. G., Navratil, P., Hupin, G., Kravvaris, K., Quaglioni, S., Brown, K. W., Cerizza, G., Estee, J., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., Morfouace, P., Santamaria, C., Sweany, S., Tsang, M. B., Tsang, T., Zhu, K., Kuvin, S. A., McNeel, D., Smith, J., Wousmaa, A. H., and Chajecki, Z.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Excited states in 13O were investigated using inelastic scattering of an E/A=69.5-MeV 13O beam off of a 9Be target. The excited states were identified in the invariant-mass spectra of the decay products. Both single proton and sequential two-proton decays of the excited states were examined. For a number of the excited states, the protons were emitted with strong anisotropy where emissions transverse to the beam axis are favored. The measured proton-decay angular distributions were compared to predictions from distorted-wave born-approximation (DWBA) calculations of the spin alignment which was shown to be largely independent of the excitation mechanism. The deduced $^{13}$O level scheme is compared to ab initio no-core shell model with continuum (NCSMC) predictions. The lowest-energy excited states decay isotropically consistent with predictions of strong proton 1s1/2 structure. Above these states in the level scheme, we observed a number of higher-spin states not predicted within the model. Possibly these are associated with rotational bands built on deformed cluster configurations predicted by antisymmetrized molecular dynamics (AMD) calculations. The spin alignment mechanism is shown to be useful for making spin assignments and may have widespread use.
Published: 2021
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7. The S$\pi$RIT Time Projection Chamber

Author: Barney, J., Estee, J., Lynch, W. G., Isobe, T., Jhang, G., Kurata-Nishimura, M., McIntosh, A. B., Murakami, T., Shane, R., Tangwancharoen, S., Tsang, M. B., Cerizza, G., Kaneko, M., Lee, J. W., Tsang, C. Y., Wang, R., Anderson, C., Baba, H., Chajecki, Z., Famiano, M., Hodges-Showalter, R., Hong, B., Kobayashi, T., Lasko, P., Łukasik, J., Nakatsuka, N., Olsen, R., Otsu, H., Pawłowski, P., Pelczar, K., Powell, W., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Setiawan, H., Taketani, A., Winkelbauer, J. R., Xiao, Z., Yennello, S. J., Yurkon, J., and Zhang, Y.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The SAMURAI Pion Reconstruction and Ion-Tracker Time Projection Chamber (S$\pi$RIT TPC) was designed to enable measurements of heavy ion collisions with the SAMURAI spectrometer at the RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory and provide constraints on the Equation of State of neutron-rich nuclear matter. The S$\pi$RIT TPC has a 50.5 cm drift length and an 86.4 cm $\times$ 134.4 cm pad plane with 12,096 pads that are equipped with the Generic Electronics for TPCs readout electronics. The S$\pi$RIT TPC allows excellent reconstruction of particles and provides isotopic resolution for pions and other light charged particles across a wide range of energy losses and momenta. Details of the S$\pi$RIT TPC are presented, along with discussion of the TPC performance based on cosmic ray and experimental data., Comment: 12 pages, 20 figures
Published: 2020
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8. Value-assigned pulse shape discrimination for neutron detectors

Author: Teh, F. C. E., Lee, J. -W., Zhu, K., Brown, K. W., Chajecki, Z., Lynch, W. G., Tsang, M. B., Anthony, A., Barney, J., Dell'Aquila, D., Estee, J., Hong, B., Jhang, G., Khanal, O. B., Kim, Y. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J. W., Manfredi, J., Nam, S. H., Niu, C. Y., Park, J. H., Sweany, S., Tsang, C. Y., Wang, R., and Wu, H.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Using the waveforms from a digital electronic system, an offline analysis technique on pulse shape discrimination (PSD) has been developed to improve the neutron-gamma separation in a bar-shaped NE-213 scintillator that couples to a photomultiplier tube (PMT) at each end. The new improved method, called the ``valued-assigned PSD'' (VPSD), assigns a normalized fitting residual to every waveform as the PSD value. This procedure then facilitates the incorporation of longitudinal position dependence of the scintillator, which further enhances the PSD capability of the detector system. In this paper, we use radiation emitted from an AmBe neutron source to demonstrate that the resulting neutron-gamma identification has been much improved when compared to the traditional technique that uses the geometric mean of light outputs from both PMTs. The new method has also been modified and applied to a recent experiment at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) that uses an analog electronic system., Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2020
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9. Measurements of dihadron correlations relative to the event plane in Au+Au collisions at GeV

Author: Agakishiev, H, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Alakhverdyants, AV, Alekseev, I, Alford, J, Anderson, BD, Anson, CD, Arkhipkin, D, Averichev, GS, Balewski, J, Beavis, DR, Behera, NK, Bellwied, R, Betancourt, MJ, Betts, RR, Bhasin, A, Bhati, AK, Bichsel, H, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Biritz, B, Bland, LC, Borowski, W, Bouchet, J, Braidot, E, Brandin, AV, Bridgeman, A, Brovko, SG, Bruna, E, Bueltmann, S, Bunzarov, I, Burton, TP, Cai, XZ, Caines, H, de la Barca Sánchez, M Calderón, Cebra, D, Cendejas, R, Cervantes, MC, Chajecki, Z, Chaloupka, P, Chattopadhyay, S, Chen, HF, Chen, JH, Chen, JY, Chen, L, Cheng, J, Cherney, M, Chikanian, A, Choi, KE, Christie, W, Chung, P, Codrington, MJM, Corliss, R, Cramer, JG, Crawford, HJ, Dash, S, Leyva, A Davila, De Silva, LC, Debbe, RR, Dedovich, TG, Derevschikov, AA, de Souza, R Derradi, Didenko, L, Djawotho, P, Dogra, SM, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Draper, JE, Dunlop, JC, Efimov, LG, Elnimr, M, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Estienne, M, Eun, L, Evdokimov, O, Fatemi, R, Fedorisin, J, Feng, A, Fersch, RG, Filip, P, Finch, E, Fine, V, Fisyak, Y, Gagliardi, CA, Gangadharan, DR, Geromitsos, A, Geurts, F, Ghosh, P, Gorbunov, YN, Gordon, A, Grebenyuk, O, Grosnick, D, Guertin, SM, Gupta, A, Guryn, W, Haag, B, Hajkova, O, and Hamed, A
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, relativistic heavy ion collisions, dihadron correlations, jet-medium interactions, anisotropic flow background, event plane, nucl-ex, nucl-th, NSD-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Dihadron azimuthal correlations containing a high transverse momentum (pT) 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 GeV as a function of the trigger particle's azimuthal angle relative to the event plane, . The azimuthal correlation is studied as a function of both the trigger and associated particle . 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 , with a double-peak structure for out-of-plane trigger particles. The near-side ridge (long range pseudo-rapidity correlation) appears to drop with increasing while the jet-like component remains approximately constant. The correlation functions are further studied with the 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 -dependence of the ridge or the away-side double-peak structure. The dropping ridge with could be attributed to a -dependent elliptic anisotropy; however, the physics mechanism of the ridge remains an open question. Even with a -dependent elliptic flow, the away-side correlation structure is robust. These results, with extensive systematic studies of the dihadron correlations as a function of , trigger and associated particle , and the pseudo-rapidity range , should provide stringent inputs to help understand the underlying physics mechanisms of jet-medium interactions in high energy nuclear collisions.
Published: 2021

10. Measurements of dihadron correlations relative to the event plane in Au+Au collisions at √sNN= 200 GeV

Author: Agakishiev, H, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Alakhverdyants, AV, Alekseev, I, Alford, J, Anderson, BD, Anson, CD, Arkhipkin, D, Averichev, GS, Balewski, J, Beavis, DR, Behera, NK, Bellwied, R, Betancourt, MJ, Betts, RR, Bhasin, A, Bhati, AK, Bichsel, H, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Biritz, B, Bland, LC, Borowski, W, Bouchet, J, Braidot, E, Brandin, AV, Bridgeman, A, Brovko, SG, Bruna, E, Bueltmann, S, Bunzarov, I, Burton, TP, Cai, XZ, Caines, H, Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, M, Cebra, D, Cendejas, R, Cervantes, MC, Chajecki, Z, Chaloupka, P, Chattopadhyay, S, Chen, HF, Chen, JH, Chen, JY, Chen, L, Cheng, J, Cherney, M, Chikanian, A, Choi, KE, Christie, W, Chung, P, Codrington, MJM, Corliss, R, Cramer, JG, Crawford, HJ, Dash, S, Davila Leyva, A, De Silva, LC, Debbe, RR, Dedovich, TG, Derevschikov, AA, Derradi De Souza, R, Didenko, L, Djawotho, P, Dogra, SM, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Draper, JE, Dunlop, JC, Efimov, LG, Elnimr, M, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Estienne, M, Eun, L, Evdokimov, O, Fatemi, R, Fedorisin, J, Feng, A, Fersch, RG, Filip, P, Finch, E, Fine, V, Fisyak, Y, Gagliardi, CA, Gangadharan, DR, Geromitsos, A, Geurts, F, Ghosh, P, Gorbunov, YN, Gordon, A, Grebenyuk, O, Grosnick, D, Guertin, SM, Gupta, A, Guryn, W, Haag, B, Hajkova, O, and Hamed, A
Subjects: relativistic heavy ion collisions, dihadron correlations, jet-medium interactions, anisotropic flow background, event plane, nucl-ex, nucl-th, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract: Dihadron azimuthal correlations containing a high transverse momentum (pT) 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 GeV as a function of the trigger particle's azimuthal angle relative to the event plane, . The azimuthal correlation is studied as a function of both the trigger and associated particle . 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 , with a double-peak structure for out-of-plane trigger particles. The near-side ridge (long range pseudo-rapidity correlation) appears to drop with increasing while the jet-like component remains approximately constant. The correlation functions are further studied with the 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 -dependence of the ridge or the away-side double-peak structure. The dropping ridge with could be attributed to a -dependent elliptic anisotropy; however, the physics mechanism of the ridge remains an open question. Even with a -dependent elliptic flow, the away-side correlation structure is robust. These results, with extensive systematic studies of the dihadron correlations as a function of , trigger and associated particle , and the pseudo-rapidity range , should provide stringent inputs to help understand the underlying physics mechanisms of jet-medium interactions in high energy nuclear collisions.
Published: 2021

11. Invariant-mass spectroscopy of $^{14}$O excited states

Author: Charity, R. J., Brown, K. W., Okolowicz, J., Ploszajczak, M., Elson, J. E., Reviol, W., Sobotka, L. G., Buhro, W. W., Chajecki, Z., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., Shane, R., Showalter, R. H., Tsang, M. B., Weisshaar, D., Winkelbauer, J. R., Bedoor, S., and Wuosmaa, A. H.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Excited states in $^{14}$O have been investigated both experimentally and theoretically. Experimentally, these states were produced via neutron-knockout reactions with a fast $^{15}$O beam and the invariant-mass technique was employed to isolate the 1$p$ and 2$p$ decay channels and determine their branching ratios. The spectrum of excited states was also calculated with the Shell Model Embedded in the Continuum that treats bound and scattering states in a unified model. By comparing energies, widths and decay branching patterns, spin and parity assignments for all experimentally observed levels below 8 MeV are made. This includes the location of the second 2$^{+}$ state that we find is in near degeneracy with the third 0$^{+}$ state. An interesting case of sequential 2$p$ decay through a pair of degenerate $^{13}$N excited states with opposite parities was found where the interference between the two sequential decay pathways produces an unusual relative-angle distribution between the emitted protons., Comment: 19 pages, 20 figures
Published: 2019
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12. Determination of energy-dependent neutron backgrounds using shadow bars

Author: Paneru, S.N., Brown, K.W., Teh, F.C.E, Zhu, K., Tsang, M.B., Dell’Aquila, D., Chajecki, Z., Lynch, W.G., Sweany, S., Tsang, C.Y., Anthony, A.K., Barney, J., Estee, J., Gasparic, I., Jhang, G., Khanal, O.B., Manfredi, J., Niu, C.Y., Wang, R.S., and Zamora, J.C.
Published: 2023
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13. Particle decays of levels in $^{11,12}$N and $^{12}$O investigated with the invariant-mass method

Author: Webb, T. B., Charity, R. J., Elson, J. M., Hoff, D. E. M, Pruitt, C. D., Sobotka, L. G., Brown, K. W., Barney, J., Cerizza, G., Estee, J., Jhang, G., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., Morfouace, P., Santamaria, C., Sweany, S., Tsang, M. B., Tsang, T., Wang, S. M., Zhang, Y., Zhu, K., Kuvin, S. A., McNeel, D., Smith, J., Wuosmaa, A. H., and Chajecki, Z.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Particle-decaying states of the light nuclei $^{11,12}$N and $^{12}$O were studied using the invariant-mass method. The decay energies and intrinsic widths of a number of states were measured, and the momentum correlations of three-body decaying states were considered. A second 2$p$-decaying 2$^+$ state of $^{12}$O was observed for the first time, and a higher energy $^{12}$O state was observed in the 4$p$+2$\alpha$ decay channel. This 4$p$+2$\alpha$ channel also contains contributions from fission-like decay paths, including $^6$Be$_{g.s.}$+$^{6}$Be$_{g.s.}$. Analogs to these states in $^{12}$O were found in $^{12}$N in the 2$p$+$^{10}$B and 2$p$+$\alpha$+$^6$Li channels. The momentum correlations for the prompt 2$p$ decay of $^{12}$O$_{g.s.}$ were found to be nearly identical to those of $^{16}$Ne$_{g.s.}$, and the correlations for the new 2$^+$ state were found to be consistent with sequential decay through excited states in $^{11}$N. The momentum correlations for the 2$^+_1$ state in $^{12}$O provide a new value for the $^{11}$N ground-state energy. The states in $^{12}$N/$^{12}$O that belong to the $A$=12 isobaric sextet do not deviate from the quadratic isobaric multiplet mass equation (IMME) form., Comment: 16 pages, 16 figures, 7 tables, tables corrected
Published: 2019
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14. Constraining the symmetry energy with heavy-ion collisions and Bayesian analyses

Author: Morfouace, P., Tsang, C. Y., Zhang, Y., Lynch, W. G., Tsang, M. B., Coupland, D. D. S, Youngs, M., Chajecki, Z., Famiano, M. A., Ghosh, T. K., Jhang, G., Lee, Jenny, Liu, H., Sanetullaev, A., Showalter, R., and Winkelbauer, J.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Efficiency corrected single ratios of neutron and proton spectra in central $^{112}$Sn+$^{112}$Sn and $^{124}$Sn+$^{124}$Sn collisions at 120 MeV/u are combined with double ratios to provide constraints on the density and momentum dependencies of the isovector mean-field potential. Bayesian analyses of these data reveal that the isoscalar and isovector nucleon effective masses, $m_s^* - m_v^*$ are strongly correlated. The linear correlation observed in $m_s^* - m_v^*$ yields a nearly independent constraint on the effective mass splitting $\Delta m_{np}^*= (m_n^*-m_p^*)/m_N = -0.05_{-0.09}^{+0.09}\delta$. The correlated constraint on the standard symmetry energy, $S_0$ and the slope, $L$ at saturation density yields the values of symmetry energy $S(\rho_s)=16.8_{-1.2}^{+1.2}$ MeV at a sensitive density of $\rho_s/\rho_0 = 0.43_{-0.05}^{+0.05}$.
Published: 2019
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15. Non-linearity effects on the light-output calibration of light charged particles in CsI(Tl) scintillator crystals

Author: Dell'Aquila, D., Sweany, S., Brown, K. W., Chajecki, Z., Lynch, W. G., Teh, F. C. E., Tsang, C. -Y., Tsang, M. B., Zhu, K., Anderson, C., Anthony, A., Barlini, S., Barney, J., Camaiani, A., Jhang, G., Crosby, J., Estee, J., Ghazali, M., Guan, F., Khanal, O., Kodali, S., Lombardo, I., Manfredi, J., Morelli, L., Morfouace, P., Niu, C., and Verde, G.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The light output produced by light ions (Z<=4) in CsI(Tl) crystals is studied over a wide range of detected energies (E<=300 MeV). Energy-light calibration data sets are obtained with the 10 cm crystals in the recently upgraded High-Resolution Array (HiRA10). We use proton recoil data from 40,48Ca + CH2 at 28 MeV/u, 56.6 MeV/u, 39 MeV/u and 139.8 MeV/u and data from a dedicated experiment with direct low-energy beams. We also use the punch through points of p, d, and t particles from 40,48Ca + 58,64Ni, 112,124Sn collisions reactions at 139.8 MeV/u. Non-linearities, arising in particular from Tl doping and light collection efficiency in the CsI crystals, are found to significantly affect the light output and therefore the calibration of the detector response for light charged particles, especially the hydrogen isotopes. A new empirical parametrization of the hydrogen light output, L(E,Z=1,A), is proposed to account for the observed effects. Results are found to be consistent for all 48 CsI(Tl) crystals in a cluster of 12 HiRA10 telescopes.
Published: 2019
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16. First observation of unbound $^{11}$O, the mirror of the halo nucleus $^{11}$Li

Author: Webb, T. B., Wang, S. M., Brown, K. W., Charity, R. J., Elson, J. M., Barney, J., Cerizza, G., Chajecki, Z., Estee, J., Hoff, D. E. M., Kuvin, S. A., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., McNeel, D., Morfouace, P., Nazarewicz, W., Pruitt, C. D., Santamaria, C., Smith, J., Sobotka, L. G., Sweany, S., Tsang, C. Y., Tsang, M. B., Wuosmaa, A. H., Zhang, Y., and Zhu, Z.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The structure of the extremely proton-rich nucleus $^{11}_{~8}$O$_3$, the mirror of the two-neutron halo nucleus $^{11}_{~3}$Li$_8$, has been studied experimentally for the first time. Following two-neutron knockout reactions with a $^{13}$O beam, the $^{11}$O decay products were detected after two-proton emission and used to construct an invariant-mass spectrum. A broad peak of width $\sim$3\,MeV was observed. Within the Gamow coupled-channel approach, it was concluded that this peak is a multiplet with contributions from the four-lowest $^{11}$O resonant states: $J^{\pi}$=3/2$^-_1$, 3/2$^-_2$, 5/2$^+_1$, and 5/2$^+_2$. The widths and configurations of these states show strong, non-monotonic dependencies on the depth of the $p$-$^9$C potential. This unusual behavior is due to the presence of a broad threshold resonant state in $^{10}$N, which is an analog of the virtual state in $^{10}$Li in the presence of the Coulomb potential. After optimizing the model to the data, only a moderate isospin asymmetry between ground states of $^{11}$O and $^{11}$Li was found., Comment: 6 pages, three figures
Published: 2018
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17. Invariant-mass spectroscopy of $^{18}$Ne, $^{16}$O, and $^{10}$C excited states formed in neutron transfer reactions

Author: Charity, R. J., Brown, K. W., Elson, J. M., Reviol, W., Sobotka, L. G., Buhro, W. W., Chajecki, Z., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., Shane, R., Showalter, R. H., Tsang, M. B., Weisshaar, D., Winkelbauer, J., Bedoor, S., McNeel, D. G., and Wuosmaa, A. H.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Neutron transfer reactions with fast secondary beams of $^{17}$Ne, $^{15}$O, and $^9$C have been studied with the HiRA and CAESAR arrays. Excited states of $^{18}$Ne, $^{16}$O, and $^{10}$C in the continuum have been identified using invariant-mass spectroscopy. The best experimental resolution of these states is achieved by selecting events where the decay fragments are emitted transverse to the beam direction. We have confirmed a number of spin assignments made in previous works for the negative-parity states of $^{18}$Ne. In addition we have found new higher-lying excited states in $^{16}$O and $^{18}$Ne, some of which fission into two ground-state $^8$Be fragments. Finally for $^{10}$C, a new excited state was observed. These transfer reactions were found to leave the remnant of the $^9$Be target nuclei at very high excitation energies and maybe associated with the pickup of a deeply-bound $^9$Be neutron., Comment: 21 pages, 18 figures
Published: 2018
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18. On Determining Dead Layer and Detector Thicknesses for a Position-Sensitive Silicon Detector

Author: Manfredi, J., Lee, Jenny, Lynch, W. G., Niu, C. Y., Tsang, M. B., Anderson, C., Barney, J., Brown, K. W., Chajecki, Z., Chan, K. P., Chen, G., Estee, J., Li, Z., Pruitt, C., Rogers, A. M., Sanetullaev, A., Setiawan, H., Showalter, R., Tsang, C. Y., Winkelbauer, J. R., Xiao, Z., and Xu, Z.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: In this work, two particular properties of the position-sensitive, thick silicon detectors (known as the "E" detectors) in the High Resolution Array (HiRA) are investigated: the thickness of the dead layer on the front of the detector, and the overall thickness of the detector itself. The dead layer thickness for each E detector in HiRA is extracted using a measurement of alpha particles emitted from a $^{212}$Pb pin source placed close to the detector surface. This procedure also allows for energy calibrations of the E detectors, which are otherwise inaccessible for alpha source calibration as each one is sandwiched between two other detectors. The E detector thickness is obtained from a combination of elastically scattered protons and an energy-loss calculation method. Results from these analyses agree with values provided by the manufacturer., Comment: Accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
Published: 2018
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19. Results of the ASY-EOS experiment at GSI: The symmetry energy at suprasaturation density

Author: Russotto, P., Gannon, S., Kupny, S., Lasko, P., Acosta, L., Adamczyk, M., Al-Ajlan, A., Al-Garawi, M., Al-Homaidhi, S., Amorini, F., Auditore, L., Aumann, T., Ayyad, Y., Basrak, Z., Benlliure, J., Boisjoli, M., Boretzky, K., Brzychczyk, J., Budzanowski, A., Caesar, C., Cardella, G., Cammarata, P., Chajecki, Z., Chartier, M., Chbihi, A., Colonna, M., Cozma, M. D., Czech, B., De Filippo, E., Di Toro, M., Famiano, M., Gašparić, I., Grassi, L., Guazzoni, C., Guazzoni, P., Heil, M., Heilborn, L., Introzzi, R., Isobe, T., Kezzar, K., Kiš, M., Krasznahorkay, A., Kurz, N., La Guidara, E., Lanzalone, G., Fèvre, A. Le, Leifels, Y., Lemmon, R. C., Li, Q. F., Lombardo, I., Lukasik, J., Lynch, W. G., Marini, P., Matthews, Z., May, L., Minniti, T., Mostazo, M., Pagano, A., Pagano, E. V., Papa, M., Pawlowski, P., Pirrone, S., Politi, G., Porto, F., Reviol, W., Riccio, F., Rizzo, F., Rosato, E., Rossi, D., Santoro, S., Sarantites, D. G., Simon, H., Skwirczynska, I., Sosin, Z., Stuhl, L., Trautmann, W., Trifirò, A., Trimarchi, M., Tsang, M. B., Verde, G., Veselsky, M., Vigilante, M., Wang, Yongjia, Wieloch, A., Wigg, P., Winkelbauer, J., Wolter, H. H., Wu, P., Yennello, S., Zambon, P., Zetta, L., and Zoric, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Directed and elliptic flows of neutrons and light charged particles were measured for the reaction 197Au+197Au at 400 MeV/nucleon incident energy within the ASY-EOS experimental campaign at the GSI laboratory. The detection system consisted of the Large Area Neutron Detector LAND, combined with parts of the CHIMERA multidetector, of the ALADIN Time-of-flight Wall, and of the Washington-University Microball detector. The latter three arrays were used for the event characterization and reaction-plane reconstruction. In addition, an array of triple telescopes, KRATTA, was used for complementary measurements of the isotopic composition and flows of light charged particles. From the comparison of the elliptic flow ratio of neutrons with respect to charged particles with UrQMD predictions, a value \gamma = 0.72 \pm 0.19 is obtained for the power-law coefficient describing the density dependence of the potential part in the parametrization of the symmetry energy. It represents a new and more stringent constraint for the regime of supra-saturation density and confirms, with a considerably smaller uncertainty, the moderately soft to linear density dependence deduced from the earlier FOPI-LAND data. The densities probed are shown to reach beyond twice saturation., Comment: 25 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review C
Published: 2016
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20. Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions

Author: Sorensen, A, primary, Agarwal, K, additional, Brown, K, additional, Chajecki, Z, additional, Danielewicz, P, additional, Lynch, W, additional, Pratt, S, additional, Tsang, M, additional, Drischler, C, additional, Gandolfi, S, additional, Tews, I, additional, Holt, J, additional, Ko, C, additional, Kaminski, M, additional, Kumar, R, additional, Li, B, additional, Newton, W, additional, McIntosh, A, additional, Savchuk, O, additional, Vogt, R, additional, Wolter, H, additional, and Zbroszczyk, H, additional
Published: 2023
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21. Elastic breakup cross sections of well-bound nucleons

Author: Wimmer, K., Bazin, D., Gade, A., Tostevin, J. A., Baugher, T., Chajecki, Z., Coupland, D., Famiano, M. A., Ghosh, T. K., Howard, G. F. Grinyer M. E., Kilburn, M., Lynch, W. G., Manning, B., Meierbachtol, K., Quarterman, P., Ratkiewicz, A., Sanetullaev, A., Showalter, R. H., Stroberg, S. R., Tsang, M. B., Weisshaar, D., Winkelbauer, J., Winkler, R., and Youngs, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The 9Be(28Mg,27Na) one-proton removal reaction with a large proton separation energy of Sp(28Mg)=16.79 MeV is studied at intermediate beam energy. Coincidences of the bound 27Na residues with protons and other light charged particles are measured. These data are analyzed to determine the percentage contributions to the proton removal cross section from the elastic and inelastic nucleon removal mechanisms. These deduced contributions are compared with the eikonal reaction model predictions and with the previously measured data for reactions involving the re- moval of more weakly-bound protons from lighter nuclei. The role of transitions of the proton between different bound single-particle configurations upon the elastic breakup cross section is also quantified in this well-bound case. The measured and calculated elastic breakup fractions are found to be in good agreement., Comment: Phys. Rev. C 2014 (accepted)
Published: 2014
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22. Calibration of large neutron detection arrays using cosmic rays

Author: Zhu, K., Tsang, M.B., Dell’Aquila, D., Brown, K.W., Chajecki, Z., Lynch, W.G., Sweany, S., Teh, F.C.E., Tsang, C.Y., Anderson, C., Anthony, A., Barney, J., Crosby, J., Estee, J., Gasparic, I., Jhang, G., Khanal, O.B., Kodali, S., Manfredi, J., Niu, C.Y., and Wang, R.S.
Published: 2020
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23. S$\pi$RIT: A time-projection chamber for symmetry-energy studies

Author: Shane, R., McIntosh, A., Isobe, T., Lynch, W. G., Baba, H., Barney, J., Chajecki, Z., Chartier, M., Estee, J., Famiano, M., Hong, B., Ieki, K., Jhang, G., Lemmon, R., Lu, F., Murakami, T., Nakatsuka, N., Nishimura, M., Olsen, R., Powell, W., Sakurai, H., Taketani, A., Tangwancharoen, S., Tsang, M. B., Usukura, T., Wang, R., Yennello, S. J., and Yurkon, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: A Time-Projection Chamber (TPC) called the SAMURAI Pion-Reconstruction and Ion-Tracker (S$\pi$RIT) has recently been constructed at Michigan State University as part of an international effort to constrain the symmetry-energy term in the nuclear Equation of State (EoS). The S$\pi$RIT TPC will be used in conjunction with the SAMURAI spectrometer at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) at RIKEN to measure yield ratios for pions and other light isospin multiplets produced in central collisions of neutron-rich heavy ions, such as $^{132}$Sn + $^{124}$Sn. The S$\pi$RIT TPC can function both as a TPC detector and as an active target. It has a vertical drift length of 50 cm, parallel to the magnetic field. Gas multiplication is achieved through the use of a multi-wire anode. Image charges are produced in the 12096 pads, and are read out with the recently developed Generic Electronics for TPCs., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to NIM A Proceedings
Published: 2014
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24. Effective Nucleon Masses from Heavy Ion Collisions

Author: Coupland, D. D. S., Youngs, M., Lynch, W. G., Tsang, M. B., Chajecki, Z., Zhang, Y. X., Famiano, M. A., Ghosh, T. K., Giacherio, B., Kilburn, M. A., Lee, Jenny, Lu, F., Russotto, P., Sanetullaev, A., Showalter, R. H., Verde, G., and Winkelbauer, J.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We probe the momentum dependence of the isovector mean-field potential by comparing the energy spectra of neutrons and protons emitted in $^{112}$Sn+$^{112}$Sn and $^{124}$Sn+$^{124}$Sn collisions at incident energies of E/A=50 and 120 MeV. We achieve experimental precision that discriminates between different momentum dependencies for the symmetry mean-field potential. Comparisons of the experimental results to Improved Quantum Molecular Dynamics model calculations with Skyrme Interactions indicate small differences between the neutron and proton effective masses., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2014
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25. The observation of long-range three-body Coloumb effects in the decay of 16Ne

Author: Brown, K. W, Charity, R. J., Sobotka, L. G., Chajecki, Z., Grigorenko, L. V., Egorova, I. A., Parfenova, Yu. L., Zhukov, M. V., Bedoor, S., Buhro, W. W., Elson, J. M., Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., McNeel, D. G., Reviol, W., Shane, R., Showalter, R. H., Tsang, M. B., Winkelbauer, J. R., and Wuosmaa, A. H.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The interaction of an $E/A$=57.6-MeV $^{17}$Ne beam with a Be target was used to populate levels in $^{16}$Ne following neutron knockout reactions. The decay of $^{16}$Ne states into the three-body $^{14}$O+$p$+$p$ continuum was observed in the High Resolution Array (HiRA). For the first time for a 2p emitter, correlations between the momenta of the three decay products were measured with sufficient resolution and statistics to allow for an unambiguous demonstration of their dependence on the long-range nature of the Coulomb interaction. Contrary to previous experiments, the intrinsic decay width of the $^{16}$Ne ground state was found to be narrow ($\Gamma<60$~keV), consistent with theoretical estimates., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2014
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26. Scaling properties of light-cluster production

Author: Chajecki, Z., Youngs, M., Coupland, D. D. S., Lynch, W. G., Tsang, M. B., Brown, D., Chbihi, A., Danielewicz, P., deSouza, R. T., Famiano, M. A., Ghosh, T. K., Giacherio, B., Henzl, V., Henzlova, D., Herlitzius, C., Hudan, S., Kilburn, M. A., Lee, Jenny, Lu, F., Lukyanov, S., Rogers, A. M., Russotto, P., Sanetullaev, A., Showalter, R. H., Sobotka, L. G., Sun, Z. Y., Molen, A. M. Vander, Verde, G., Wallace, M. S., and Winkelbauer, J.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We show that ratios of light-particle energy spectra display scaling properties that can be accu- rately described by effective local chemical potentials. This demonstrates the equivalence of t/3He and n/p spectral ratios and provides an essential test of theoretical predictions of isotopically resolved light-particle spectra. In addition, this approach allows direct comparisons of many theoretical n/p spectral ratios to experiments where charged-particle spectra but not neutron spectra are accurately measured. Such experiments may provide much more quantitative constraints on the density and momentum dependence of the symmetry energy.
Published: 2014

27. Correlations in intermediate-energy two-proton removal reactions

Author: Wimmer, K., Bazin, D., Gade, A., Tostevin, J. A., Baugher, T., Chajecki, Z., Coupland, D., Famiano, M. A., Ghosh, T. K., Grinyer, G. F., Hodges, R., Howard, M. E., Kilburn, M., Lynch, W. G., Manning, B., Meierbachtol, K., Quarterman, P., Ratkiewicz, A., Sanetullaev, A., Simpson, E. C., Stroberg, S. R., Tsang, M. B., Weisshaar, D., Winkelbauer, J., Winkler, R., and Youngs, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report final-state-exclusive measurements of the light charged fragments in coincidence with 26Ne residual nuclei following the direct two-proton removal from a neutron-rich 28Mg secondary beam. A Dalitz-plot analysis and comparisons with simulations show that a majority of the triple- coincidence events with two protons display phase-space correlations consistent with the (two-body) kinematics of a spatially-correlated pair-removal mechanism. The fraction of such correlated events, 56(12) %, is consistent with the fraction of the calculated cross section, 64 %, arising from spin S = 0 two-proton configurations in the entrance-channel (shell-model) 28Mg ground state wave function. This result promises access to an additional and more specific probe of the spin and spatial correlations of valence nucleon pairs in exotic nuclei produced as fast secondary beams., Comment: accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Published: 2012
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28. The ASY-EOS experiment at GSI: investigating the symmetry energy at supra-saturation densities

Author: Russotto, P., Chartier, M., De Filippo, E., Févre, A. Le, Gannon, S., Gašparić, I., Kiš, M., Kupny, S., Leifels, Y., Lemmon, R. C., Łukasik, J., Marini, P., Pagano, A., Pawłowski, P., Santoro, S., Trautmann, W., Veselsky, M., Acosta, L., Adamczyk, M., Al-Ajlan, A., Al-Garawi, M., Al-Homaidhi, S., Amorini, F., Auditore, L., Aumann, T., Ayyad, Y., Baran, V., Basrak, Z., Benlliure, J., Boiano, C., Boisjoli, M., Boretzky, K., Brzychczyk, J., Budzanowski, A., Cardella, G., Cammarata, P., Chajecki, Z., Chbihi, A., Colonna, M., Cozma, D., Czech, B., Di Toro, M., Famiano, M., Geraci, E., Greco, V., Grassi, L., Guazzoni, C., Guazzoni, P., Heil, M., Heilborn, L., Introzzi, R., Isobe, T., Kezzar, K., Krasznahorkay, A., Kurz, N., La Guidara, E., Lanzalone, G., Lasko, P., Li, Q., Lombardo, I., Lynch, W. G., Matthews, Z., May, L., Minniti, T., Mostazo, M., Papa, M., Pirrone, S., Politi, G., Porto, F., Reifarth, R., Reisdorf, W., Riccio, F., Rizzo, F., Rosato, E., Rossi, D., Simon, H., Skwirczynska, I., Sosin, Z., Stuhl, L., Trifiró, A., Trimarchi, M., Tsang, M. B., Verde, G., Vigilante, M., Wieloch, A., Wigg, P., Wolter, H. H., Wu, P., Yennello, S., Zambon, P., Zetta, L., and Zoric, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The elliptic-flow ratio of neutrons with respect to protons in reactions of neutron rich heavy-ions systems at intermediate energies has been proposed as an observable sensitive to the strength of the symmetry term in the nuclear Equation Of State (EOS) at supra-saturation densities. The recent results obtained from the existing FOPI/LAND data for $^{197}$Au+$^{197}$Au collisions at 400 MeV/nucleon in comparison with the UrQMD model allowed a first estimate of the symmetry term of the EOS but suffer from a considerable statistical uncertainty. In order to obtain an improved data set for Au+Au collisions and to extend the study to other systems, a new experiment was carried out at the GSI laboratory by the ASY-EOS collaboration in May 2011., Comment: Talk given by P. Russotto at the 11th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2012), San Antonio, Texas, USA, May 27-June 1, 2012. To appear in the NN2012 Proceedings in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
Published: 2012
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29. Democratic decay of 6Be exposed by correlations

Author: Egorova, I. A., Charity, R. J., Grigorenko, L. V., Chajecki, Z., Coupland, D., Elson, J. M., Ghosh, T. K., Howard, M. E., Iwasaki, H., Kilburn, M., Lee, Jenny, Lynch, W. G., Manfredi, J., Marley, S. T., Sanetullaev, A., Shane, R., Shetty, D. V., Sobotka, L. G., Tsang, M. B., Winkelbauer, J., Wuosmaa, A. H., Youngs, M., and Zhukov, M. V.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: The interaction of an E/A=70 - MeV 7Be beam with a Be target was used to populate levels in 6Be following neutron knockout reactions. The three-body decay of the ground and first excited states into the alpha+p+p exit channel were detected in the High Resolution Array. Precise three-body correlations extracted from the experimental data allowed us to obtain insight into the mechanism of the three-body democratic decay. The correlation data are in a good agreement with a three-cluster-model calculation and thus validate this theoretical approach over a broad energy range., Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures; Corrected typos
Published: 2012
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30. Probing elastic and inelastic breakup contributions to intermediate-energy two-proton removal reactions

Author: Wimmer, K., Bazin, D., Gade, A., Tostevin, J. A., Baugher, T., Chajecki, Z., Coupland, D., Famiano, M. A., Ghosh, T. K., Grinyer, G. F., Hodges, R., Howard, M. E., Kilburn, M., Lynch, W. G., Manning, B., Meierbachtol, K., Quarterman, P., Ratkiewicz, A., Sanetullaev, A., Stroberg, S. R., Tsang, M. B., Weisshaar, D., Winkelbauer, J., and Youngs, R. Winkler M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The two-proton removal reaction from 28Mg projectiles has been studied at 93 MeV/u at the NSCL. First coincidence measurements of the heavy 26Ne projectile residues, the removed protons and other light charged particles enabled the relative cross sections from each of the three possible elastic and inelastic proton removal mechanisms to be determined. These more final-state-exclusive measurements are key for further interrogation of these reaction mechanisms and use of the reaction channel for quantitative spectroscopy of very neutron-rich nuclei. The relative and absolute yields of the three contributing mechanisms are compared to reaction model expectations - based on the use of eikonal dynamics and sd-shell-model structure amplitudes., Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review C (Rapid Communication)
Published: 2012
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31. Angular Dependence in Proton-Proton Correlation Functions in Central $^{40}Ca+^{40}Ca$ and $^{48}Ca+^{48}Ca$ Reactions

Author: Henzl, V., Kilburn, M. A., Chajecki, Z., Henzlova, D., Lynch, W. G., Brown, D., Chbihi, A., Coupland, D., Danielewicz, P., deSouza, R., Famiano, M., Herlitzius, C., Hudan, S., Lee, Jenny, Lukyanov, S., Rogers, A. M., Sanetullaev, A., Sobotka, L., Sun, Z. Y., Tsang, M. B., Molen, A. Vander, Verde, G., Wallace, M., and Youngs, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The angular dependence of proton-proton correlation functions is studied in central $^{40}Ca+^{40}Ca$ and $^{48}Ca+^{48}Ca$ nuclear reactions at E=80 MeV/A. Measurements were performed with the HiRA detector complemented by the 4$\pi$ Array at NSCL. A striking angular dependence in the laboratory frame is found within p-p correlation functions for both systems that greatly exceeds the measured and expected isospin dependent difference between the neutron-rich and neutron-deficient systems. Sources measured at backward angles reflect the participant zone of the reaction, while much larger sources observed at forward angles reflect the expanding, fragmenting and evaporating projectile remnants. The decrease of the size of the source with increasing momentum is observed at backward angles while a weaker trend in the opposite direction is observed at forward angles. The results are compared to the theoretical calculations using the BUU transport model., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRC
Published: 2011
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32. 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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33. Investigations of three, four, and five-particle exit channels of levels in light nuclei created using a 9C beam

Author: Charity, R. J., Elson, J. M., Manfredi, J., Shane, R., Sobotka, L. G., Brown, B. A., Chajecki, Z., Coupland, D., Iwasaki, H., Kilburn, M., Lee, Jenny, Lynch, W. G., Sanetullaev, A., Tsang, M. B., Winkelbauer, J., Youngs, M., Marley, S. T., Shetty, D. V., Wuosmaa, A. H., Ghosh, T. K., and Howard, M. E.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The interactions of a E/A=70-MeV 9C beam with a Be target was used to populate levels in Be, B, and C isotopes which undergo decay into many-particle exit channels. The decay products were detected in the HiRA array and the level energies were identified from their invariant mass. Correlations between the decay products were examined to deduce the nature of the decays, specifically to what extent all the fragments were created in one prompt step or whether the disintegration proceeded in a sequential fashion through long-lived intermediate states. In the latter case, information on the spin of the level was also obtained. Of particular interest is the 5-body decay of the 8C ground state which was found to disintegrate in two steps of two-proton decay passing through the 6Beg.s. intermediate state. The isobaric analog of 8Cg.s. in 8B was also found to undergo two-proton decay to the isobaric analog of 6Beg.s. in 6Li. A 9.69-MeV state in 10C was found to undergo prompt 4-body decay to the 2p+2alpha exit channel. The two protons were found to have a strong enhancementin the diproton region and the relative energies of all four p-alpha pairs were consistent with the 5Lig.s. resonance.
Published: 2011
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34. 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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35. Constraints on the density dependence of the symmetry energy from heavy ion collisions

Author: Tsang, M. B., Chajecki, Z., Coupland, D., Danielewicz, P., Famiano, F., Hodges, R., Kilburn, M., Lu, F., Lynch, W. G., Winkelbauer, J., Youngs, M., and Zhang, YingXun
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: Constraints on the Equation of State for symmetric matter (equal neutron and proton numbers) have been extracted from energetic collisions of heavy ions over a range of energies. Collisions of neutron-deficient and neutron-rich heavy ions now provide initial constraints on the EoS of neutron-rich matter at sub-saturation densities from isospin diffusions and neutron proton ratios. This article reviews the experimental constraints on the density dependence of Symmetry Energy at sub-saturation density., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, to be published in: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Published: 2011
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36. 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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37. 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

38. 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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39. 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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40. Azimuthal di-hadron correlations in d+Au and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV from STAR

Author: STAR Collaboration, 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., 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., 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., 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., 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
Abstract: Yields, correlation shapes, and mean transverse momenta \pt{} of charged particles associated with intermediate to high-\pt{} trigger particles ($2.5 < \pt < 10$ \GeVc) in d+Au and Au+Au collisions at $\snn=200$ GeV are presented. For associated particles at higher $\pt \gtrsim 2.5$ \GeVc, narrow correlation peaks are seen in d+Au and Au+Au, indicating that the main production mechanism is jet fragmentation. At lower associated particle $\pt < 2$ \GeVc, a large enhancement of the near- ($\dphi \sim 0$) and away-side ($\dphi \sim \pi$) associated yields is found, together with a strong broadening of the away-side azimuthal distributions in Au+Au collisions compared to d+Au measurements, suggesting that other particle production mechanisms play a role. This is further supported by the observed significant softening of the away-side associated particle yield distribution at $\dphi \sim \pi$ in central Au+Au collisions., Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, updated after journal review
Published: 2010
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41. Pion femtoscopy in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV

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
Abstract: The STAR Collaboration at RHIC has measured two-pion correlation functions from p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV. Spatial scales are extracted via a femtoscopic analysis of the correlations, though this analysis is complicated by the presence of strong non-femtoscopic effects. Our results are put into the context of the world dataset of femtoscopy in hadron-hadron collisions. We present the first direct comparison of femtoscopy in p+p and heavy ion collisions, under identical analysis and detector conditions., Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures, as published in Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2010
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42. Upsilon cross section in p+p collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., 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., 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., DePhillips, M., 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., Grube, B., Guertin, S. M., Gupta, A., Gupta, N., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hallman, T. J., 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., Hollis, R. S., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Iordanova, A., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jakl, P., 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., Knospe, A. G., Kocoloski, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Kopytine, M., Koralt, I., 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., 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., 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, 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., Okada, H., Okorokov, V., 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., Rehberg, J. M., 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., 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., Wingfield, E., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y., Xie, W., 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, 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: We report on a measurement of the Upsilon(1S+2S+3S) -> e+e- cross section at midrapidity in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV. We find the cross section to be 114 +/- 38 (stat.) +23,-24 (syst.) pb. Perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-leading order in the Color Evaporation Model are in agreement with our measurement, while calculations in the Color Singlet Model underestimate it by 2 sigma. Our result is consistent with the trend seen in world data as a function of the center-of-mass energy of the collision and extends the availability of Upsilon data to RHIC energies. The dielectron continuum in the invariant mass range near the Upsilon is also studied to obtain a combined cross section of Drell-Yan plus (b b-bar) -> e+e-., Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures, STAR Collaboration
Published: 2010
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43. Pion Interferometry in Au+Au and Cu+Cu Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 62.4 and 200 GeV

Author: The STAR Collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Barannikova, O., Barnby, L. S., Baumgart, S., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Benedosso, F., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Biritz, B., Bland, L. C., Bnzarov, I., Bombara, M., Bonner, B. E., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Burton, T. P., Bystersky, M., 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., Chen17, J. H., Chen50, J. Y., Cheng43, J., Cherney9, M., Chikanian51, A., Choi, K. E., Christie, W., Clarke, R. F., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cormier, T. M., Cosentino, M. R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Das, D., Dash, S., Daugherity, M., De Silva, L. C., Dedovich, T. G., DePhillips, M., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., and Djawotho, P.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present a systematic analysis of two-pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 62.4 GeV and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 62.4 and 200 GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC. The multiplicity and transverse momentum dependences of the extracted correlation lengths (radii) are studied. The scaling with charged particle multiplicity of the apparent system volume at final interaction is studied for the RHIC energy domain. The multiplicity scaling of the measured correlation radii is found to be independent of colliding system and collision energy., Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures. for Physical Review C; http://prc.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v80/i2/e024905
Published: 2009
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44. Event-plane-dependent dihadron correlations with harmonic vn subtraction in Au + Au collisions at s NN =200 GeV

Author: Agakishiev, H, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Alakhverdyants, AV, Alekseev, I, Alford, J, Anderson, BD, Anson, CD, Arkhipkin, D, Averichev, GS, Balewski, J, Beavis, DR, Behera, NK, Bellwied, R, Betancourt, MJ, Betts, RR, Bhasin, A, Bhati, AK, Bichsel, H, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Biritz, B, Bland, LC, Borowski, W, Bouchet, J, Braidot, E, Brandin, AV, Bridgeman, A, Brovko, SG, Bruna, E, Bueltmann, S, Bunzarov, I, Burton, TP, Cai, XZ, Caines, H, De La Barca Sánchez, MC, Cebra, D, Cendejas, R, Cervantes, MC, Chajecki, Z, Chaloupka, P, Chattopadhyay, S, Chen, HF, Chen, JH, Chen, JY, Chen, L, Cheng, J, Cherney, M, Chikanian, A, Choi, KE, Christie, W, Chung, P, Codrington, MJM, Corliss, R, Cramer, JG, Crawford, HJ, Dash, S, Leyva, AD, De Silva, LC, Debbe, RR, Dedovich, TG, Derevschikov, AA, De Souza, RD, Didenko, L, Djawotho, P, Dogra, SM, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Draper, JE, Dunlop, JC, Efimov, LG, Elnimr, M, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Estienne, M, Eun, L, Evdokimov, O, Fatemi, R, Fedorisin, J, Feng, A, Fersch, RG, Filip, P, Finch, E, Fine, V, Fisyak, Y, Gagliardi, CA, Gangadharan, DR, Geromitsos, A, Geurts, F, Ghosh, P, Gorbunov, YN, Gordon, A, Grebenyuk, O, Grosnick, D, Guertin, SM, Gupta, A, Guryn, W, Haag, B, Hajkova, O, and Hamed, A
Subjects: nucl-ex, nucl-th, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract: STAR measurements of dihadron azimuthal correlations (Δφ) are reported in midcentral (20-60%) Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV as a function of the trigger particle's azimuthal angle relative to the event plane, φs=|φt-ψEP|. The elliptic (v2), triangular (v3), and quadratic (v4) flow harmonic backgrounds are subtracted using the zero yield at minimum (ZYAM) method. The results are compared to minimum-bias d+Au collisions. It is found that a finite near-side (|Δφ|π/2) correlation shows a modification from d+Au data, varying with φs. The modification may be a consequence of path-length-dependent jet quenching and may lead to a better understanding of high-density QCD. © 2014 American Physical Society.
Published: 2014

45. Event-plane-dependent dihadron correlations with harmonic vn subtraction in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV

Author: Agakishiev, H, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Alakhverdyants, AV, Alekseev, I, Alford, J, Anderson, BD, Anson, CD, Arkhipkin, D, Averichev, GS, Balewski, J, Beavis, DR, Behera, NK, Bellwied, R, Betancourt, MJ, Betts, RR, Bhasin, A, Bhati, AK, Bichsel, H, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Biritz, B, Bland, LC, Borowski, W, Bouchet, J, Braidot, E, Brandin, AV, Bridgeman, A, Brovko, SG, Bruna, E, Bueltmann, S, Bunzarov, I, Burton, TP, Cai, XZ, Caines, H, de la Barca Sánchez, M Calderón, Cebra, D, Cendejas, R, Cervantes, MC, Chajecki, Z, Chaloupka, P, Chattopadhyay, S, Chen, HF, Chen, JH, Chen, JY, Chen, L, Cheng, J, Cherney, M, Chikanian, A, Choi, KE, Christie, W, Chung, P, Codrington, MJM, Corliss, R, Cramer, JG, Crawford, HJ, Dash, S, Leyva, A Davila, De Silva, LC, Debbe, RR, Dedovich, TG, Derevschikov, AA, de Souza, R Derradi, Didenko, L, Djawotho, P, Dogra, SM, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Draper, JE, Dunlop, JC, Efimov, LG, Elnimr, M, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Estienne, M, Eun, L, Evdokimov, O, Fatemi, R, Fedorisin, J, Feng, A, Fersch, RG, Filip, P, Finch, E, Fine, V, Fisyak, Y, Gagliardi, CA, Gangadharan, DR, Geromitsos, A, Geurts, F, Ghosh, P, Gorbunov, YN, Gordon, A, Grebenyuk, O, Grosnick, D, Guertin, SM, Gupta, A, Guryn, W, Haag, B, Hajkova, O, and Hamed, A
Subjects: nucl-ex, nucl-th, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: STAR measurements of dihadron azimuthal correlations (Δφ) are reported in midcentral (20-60%) Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV as a function of the trigger particle's azimuthal angle relative to the event plane, φs=|φt-ψEP|. The elliptic (v2), triangular (v3), and quadratic (v4) flow harmonic backgrounds are subtracted using the zero yield at minimum (ZYAM) method. The results are compared to minimum-bias d+Au collisions. It is found that a finite near-side (|Δφ|π/2) correlation shows a modification from d+Au data, varying with φs. The modification may be a consequence of path-length-dependent jet quenching and may lead to a better understanding of high-density QCD. © 2014 American Physical Society.
Published: 2014

46. Strong Evidence for N9 and the Limits of Existence of Atomic Nuclei

Author: Charity, R. J., primary, Wylie, J., additional, Wang, S. M., additional, Webb, T. B., additional, Brown, K. W., additional, Cerizza, G., additional, Chajecki, Z., additional, Elson, J. M., additional, Estee, J., additional, Hoff, D. E. M., additional, Kuvin, S. A., additional, Lynch, W. G., additional, Manfredi, J., additional, Michel, N., additional, McNeel, D. G., additional, Morfouace, P., additional, Nazarewicz, W., additional, Pruitt, C. D., additional, Santamaria, C., additional, Sweany, S., additional, Smith, J., additional, Sobotka, L. G., additional, Tsang, M. B., additional, and Wuosmaa, A. H., additional
Published: 2023
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47. Beam-Energy and System-Size Dependence of Dynamical Net Charge Fluctuations

Author: Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Bai, Y., Balewski, J., Barannikova, O., Barnby, L. S., Baudot, J., Baumgart, S., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Benedosso, F., Betts, R. R., Bhardwaj, S., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Biritz, B., Bland, L. C., Bombara, M., Bonner, B. E., Botje, M., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Bueltmann, S., Burton, T. P., Bystersky, M., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Callner, J., 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, S. U., Clarke, R. F., Codrington, M. J. M., Coffin, J. P., Cormier, T. M., Cosentino, M. R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Das, D., Dash, S., Daugherity, M., Dedovich, T. G., DePhillips, M., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, F., Dunlop, J. C., Mazumdar, M. R. Dutta, Edwards, W. R., Efimov, L. G., Elhalhuli, E., Elnimr, M., Emelianov, V., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Erazmus, B., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Fachini, P., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Feng, A., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gaillard, L., Gangadharan, D. R., Ganti, M. S., Garcia-Solis, E., Ghazikhanian, V., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O., Grosnick, D., Grube, B., Guertin, S. M., Guimaraes, K. S. F. F., Gupta, A., Gupta, N., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hallman, T. J., Hamed, A., Harris, J. W., He, W., Heinz, M., Heppelmann, S., Hippolyte, B., Hirsch, A., Hoffman, A. M., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Hollis, R. S., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Iordanova, A., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jakl, P., Jin, F., Jones, P. G., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kajimoto, K., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kaplan, M., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Khodyrev, V. Yu., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Klein, S. R., Knospe, A. G., Kocoloski, A., Koetke, D. D., Kopytine, M., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kravtsov, P., Kravtsov, V. I., Krueger, K., Kuhn, C., Kumar, L., Kurnadi, P., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, C-H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, Y., Lin, G., Lin, X., Lindenbaum, S. J., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, J., Liu, L., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Love, W. A., Lu, Y., Ludlam, T., Lynn, D., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mangotra, L. K., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Matis, H. S., Matulenko, Yu. A., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Millane, J., Miller, M. L., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, A., Mitchell, J., Mohanty, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Nandi, B. K., Nattrass, C., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nepali, C., Netrakanti, P. K., Ng, M. J., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Okada, H., Okorokov, V., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Pal, S. K., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Peitzmann, T., Perevoztchikov, V., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Phatak, S. C., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Porile, N., Poskanzer, A. M., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Putschke, J., Qattan, I. A., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Ridiger, A., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Rose, A., Roy, C., Ruan, L., Russcher, M. J., Rykov, V., Sahoo, R., Sakrejda, I., Sakuma, T., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarsour, M., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shabetai, A., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shi, X-H., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Snellings, R., Sorensen, P., Sowinski, J., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stadnik, A., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Staszak, D., 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., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Timoshenko, S., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Tram, V. N., Trattner, A. L., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tsai, O. D., Ulery, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van der Kolk, N., van Leeuwen, M., Molen, A. M. Vander, Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasilevski, I. M., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbaek, F., Vigdor, S. E., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Wada, M., Waggoner, W. T., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, J., Wu, Y., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yepes, P., Yoo, I-K., Yue, Q., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, H., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, Y., Zhong, C., Zhou, J., Zoulkarneev, R., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zuo, J. X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present measurements of net charge fluctuations in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV, $Cu + Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 62.4, 200 GeV, and $p + p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 200 GeV using the dynamical net charge fluctuations measure $\nu_{+-{\rm,dyn}}$. We observe that the dynamical fluctuations are non-zero at all energies and exhibit a modest dependence on beam energy. A weak system size dependence is also observed. We examine the collision centrality dependence of the net charge fluctuations and find that dynamical net charge fluctuations violate $1/N_{ch}$ scaling, but display approximate $1/N_{part}$ scaling. We also study the azimuthal and rapidity dependence of the net charge correlation strength and observe strong dependence on the azimuthal angular range and pseudorapidity widths integrated to measure the correlation., Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, STAR Collaboration
Published: 2008
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48. Strange baryon resonance production in $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV $p+p$ and $Au+Au$ collisions

Author: The STAR collaboration, Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Anderson, M., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Bai, Y., Balewski, J., Barannikova, O., Barnby, L. S., Baudot, J., Bekele, S., Belaga, V. V., Bellingeri-Laurikainen, A., Bellwied, R., Benedosso, F., Bhardwaj, S., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Blyth, S-L., Bonner, B. E., Botje, M., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Bravar, A., Burton, T. P., Bystersky, M., Cadman, R. V., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Castillo, J., Catu, O., Cebra, D., Chajecki, Z., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Coffin, J. P., Cormier, T. M., Cosentino, M. R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Das, D., Das, S., Dash, S., Daugherity, M., de Moura, M. M., Dedovich, T. G., DePhillips, M., Derevschikov, A. A., Didenko, L., Dietel, T., Djawotho, P., Dogra, S. M., Dong, W. J., Dong, X., Draper, J. E., Du, F., Dunin, V. B., Dunlop, J. C., Mazumdar, M. R. Dutta, Eckardt, V., Edwards, W. R., Efimov, L. G., Emelianov, V., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Erazmus, B., Estienne, M., Fachini, P., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Filimonov, K., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Fu, J., Gagliardi, C. A., Gaillard, L., Ganti, M. S., Gaudichet, L., Ghazikhanian, V., Ghosh, P., Gonzalez, J. E., Gorbunov, Y. G., Gos, H., Grebenyuk, O., Grosnick, D., Guertin, S. M., Guimaraes, K. S. F. F., Gupta, N., Gutierrez, T. D., Haag, B., Hallman, T. J., Hamed, A., Harris, J. W., He, W., Heinz, M., Henry, T. W., Hepplemann, S., Hippolyte, B., Hirsch, A., Hjort, E., Hoffman, A. M., Hoffmann, G. W., Horner, M. J., Huang, H. Z., Huang, S. L., Hughes, E. W., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, P., Jacobs, W. W., Jakl, P., Jia, F., Jiang, H., Jones, P. G., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kaplan, M., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Khodyrev, V. Yu., Kim, B. C., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kislov, E. M., Klein, S. R., Kocoloski, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Kopytine, M., Kotchenda, L., Kouchpil, V., Kowalik, K. L., Kramer, M., Kravtsov, P., Kravtsov, V. I., Krueger, K., Kuhn, C., Kulikov, A. I., Kumar, A., Kuznetsov, A. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Lange, S., LaPointe, S., Laue, F., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, C-H., Lehocka, S., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, Q., Li, Y., Lin, G., Lin, X., Lindenbaum, S. J., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, L., Liu, Z., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Long, H., Longacre, R. S., Love, W. A., Lu, Y., Ludlam, T., Lynn, D., Ma, G. L., Ma, J. G., Ma, Y. G., Magestro, D., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mangotra, L. K., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Martin, L., Matis, H. S., Matulenko, Yu. A., McClain, C. J., McShane, T. S., Melnick, Yu., Meschanin, A., Millane, J., Miller, M. L., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mironov, C., Mischke, A., Mishra, D. K., Mitchell, J., Mohanty, B., Molnar, L., Moore, C. F., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Nandi, B. K., Nattrass, C., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Netrakanti, P. K., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Okorokov, V., Oldenburg, M., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Pal, S. K., Panebratsev, Y., Panitkin, S. Y., Pavlinov, A. I., Pawlak, T., Peitzmann, T., Perevoztchikov, V., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Phatak, S. C., Picha, R., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Porile, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Potekhin, M., Potrebenikova, E., Potukuchi, B. V. K. S., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Putschke, J., Rakness, G., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Razin, S. V., Reinnarth, J., Relyea, D., Retiere, F., Ridiger, A., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Rose, A., Roy, C., Ruan, L., Russcher, M. J., Sahoo, R., Sakuma, T., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sarsour, M., Sazhin, P. S., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmitz, N., Schweda, K., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shabetai, A., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shen, W. Q., Shimanskiy, S. S., Sichtermann, E, Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Smirnov, N., Snellings, R., Sood, G., Sorensen, P., Sowinski, J., Speltz, J., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stadnik, A., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stock, R., Stolpovsky, A., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sugarbaker, E., Sumbera, M., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Swanger, M., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Tai, A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Timoshenko, S., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tsai, O. D., Ulery, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van der Kolk, N., van Leeuwen, M., Molen, A. M. Vander, Varma, R., Vasilevski, I. M., Vasiliev, A. N., Vernet, R., Vigdor, S. E., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Waggoner, W. T., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Watson, J. W., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wetzler, A., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wood, J., Wu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Z., Yepes, P., Yoo, I-K., Yurevich, V. I., Zhan, W., Zhang, H., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, Y., Zhong, C., Zoulkarneev, R., Zoulkarneeva, Y., Zubarev, A. N., and Zuo, J. X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the measurements of $\Sigma (1385)$ and $\Lambda (1520)$ production in $p+p$ and $Au+Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV from the STAR collaboration. The yields and the $p_{T}$ spectra are presented and discussed in terms of chemical and thermal freeze-out conditions and compared to model predictions. Thermal and microscopic models do not adequately describe the yields of all the resonances produced in central $Au+Au$ collisions. Our results indicate that there may be a time-span between chemical and thermal freeze-out during which elastic hadronic interactions occur., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 132301 (2006)
Published: 2006
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49. Pion Interferemetry from p+p to Au+Au in STAR

Author: Chajecki, Z.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The geometric substructure of the particle-emitting source has been characterized via two-particle interferometry by the STAR collaboration for all energies and colliding systems at RHIC. We present systematic studies of charged pion interferometry. The collective nature of the source is revealed through the $m_T$ dependence of HBT radii for all particle types. Preliminary results suggest a scaling in the pion HBT radii with overall system size, as central Au+Au collisions are compared to peripheral collisions as well as with Cu+Cu and even with d+Au and p+p collisions, naively suggesting comparable flow strength in all systems. To probe this issue in greater detail, multidimensional correlation functions are studied using a spherical decomposition method. This allows clear identification of source anisotropy and, for the light systems, the presence of significant long-range non-femtoscopic correlations., Comment: Proceedings for WPCF, Kromeriz, Czech Republic, August 2005
Published: 2005

50. Identical Particle Correlations in STAR

Author: Chajecki, Z.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Preliminary results of identical-particle correlations probing the geometric substructure of the particle-emitting source at RHIC are presented. An $m_T$-independent scaling of pion HBT radii from large (central Au+Au) to small (p+p) collision systems naively suggests comparable flow strength in all of them. Multidimensional correlation functions are studied in detail using a spherical decomposition method. In the light systems, the presence of significant long-range non-femtoscopic correlations complicates the extraction of HBT radii., Comment: Talk given at Quark Matter 2005, 18th Internationl Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Interactions, August 4-9, 2005, Budapest, Hungary; 4 pages, 5 figures; figure 1 corrected; few references added; the discussion on universal scaling has been slightly changed
Published: 2005

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