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1. Precision Measurement of the Longitudinal Double-spin Asymmetry for Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV

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

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

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

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

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Banerjee, A., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Contin, G., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Greiner, L., Grosnick, D., Gunarathne, D. S., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huang, X., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Kosarzewski, L. K., Kotchenda, L., Kraishan, A. F., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Lomnitz, M., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nigmatkulov, G., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Olvitt Jr., D. L., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Poljak, N., Poniatowska, K., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Rusnakova, O., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., Szelezniak, M. A., Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vandenbroucke, M., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, J., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Yu, N., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. L., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present results of analyses of two-pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV measured in the STAR detector as part of the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program. The extracted correlation lengths (HBT radii) are studied as a function of beam energy, azimuthal angle relative to the reaction plane, centrality, and transverse mass ($m_{T}$) of the particles. The azimuthal analysis allows extraction of the eccentricity of the entire fireball at kinetic freeze-out. The energy dependence of this observable is expected to be sensitive to changes in the equation of state. A new global fit method is studied as an alternate method to directly measure the parameters in the azimuthal analysis. The eccentricity shows a monotonic decrease with beam energy that is qualitatively consistent with the trend from all model predictions and quantitatively consistent with a hadronic transport model., Comment: 27 pages; 27 figures
Published: 2014
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6. NA61/SHINE facility at the CERN SPS: beams and detector system

Author: Abgrall, N., Andreeva, O., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bogusz, M., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Christakoglou, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Diakonos, F., DiLuise, S., Dominik, W., Drozhzhova, T., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Efthymiopoulos, I., Ereditato, A., Fabich, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Fulop, A., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hierholzer, M., Idczak, R., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Jokovic, D., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kielczewska, D., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kiss, T., Kleinfelder, S., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Koversarski, P., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Maletic, D., Manglunki, D., Manic, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marin, V., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Messina, M., Mrowczynski, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Pistillo, C., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Puzovic, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Richter-Was, E., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Savic, M., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Sipos, R., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Sosin, Z., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Stroebele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Tereshchenko, V., Tolyhi, T., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarz, A., Wyszynski, O., Zambelli, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment, 81V36
Abstract: NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a multi-purpose experimental facility to study hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. It recorded the first physics data with hadron beams in 2009 and with ion beams (secondary 7Be beams) in 2011. NA61/SHINE has greatly profited from the long development of the CERN proton and ion sources and the accelerator chain as well as the H2 beamline of the CERN North Area. The latter has recently been modified to also serve as a fragment separator as needed to produce the Be beams for NA61/SHINE. Numerous components of the NA61/SHINE set-up were inherited from its predecessors, in particular, the last one, the NA49 experiment. Important new detectors and upgrades of the legacy equipment were introduced by the NA61/SHINE Collaboration. This paper describes the state of the NA61/SHINE facility - the beams and the detector system - before the CERN Long Shutdown I, which started in March 2013.
Published: 2014
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7. Beam-Energy Dependence of Directed Flow of Protons, Antiprotons and Pions in Au+Au Collisions

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

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

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

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

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The $\jpsi$ $\pt$ spectrum and nuclear modification factor ($\raa$) are reported for $\pt < 5 \ \gevc$ and $|y|<1$ from 0\% to 60\% central Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\snn = 200 \ \gev$ at STAR. A significant suppression of $\pt$-integrated $\jpsi$ production is observed in central Au+Au events. The Cu+Cu data are consistent with no suppression, although the precision is limited by the available statistics. $\raa$ in Au+Au collisions exhibits a strong suppression at low transverse momentum and gradually increases with $\pt$. The data are compared to high-$\pt$ STAR results and previously published BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider results. Comparing with model calculations, it is found that the invariant yields at low $\pt$ are significantly above hydrodynamic flow predictions but are consistent with models that include color screening and regeneration., Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures. Accepted by Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2013
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12. Phase-space dependence of particle-ratio fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions from 20A to 158A GeV beam energy

Author: Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Beck, H., Betev, L., Białkowska, H., Blume, C., Boimska, B., Book, J., Botje, M., Bunčić, P., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Chvala, O., Cramer, J., Eckardt, V., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Gaździcki, M., Grebieszkow, K., Höhne, C., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kolesnikov, V., Kowalski, M., Kresan, D., Laszlo, A., Lacey, R., van Leeuwen, M., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Makariev, M., Malakhov, A., Melkumov, G., Mitrovski, M., Mrówczyński, S., Pálla, G., Panagiotou, A., Peryt, W., Pluta, J., Prindle, D., Pühlhofer, F., Renfordt, R., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rybczyński, M., Rybicki, A., Sandoval, A., Rustamov, A., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T., Seyboth, P., Siklér, F., Skrzypczak, E., Słodkowski, M., Stefanek, G., Stock, R., Ströbele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Varga, D., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G., Vesztergombi, G., Vranić, D., Włodarczyk, Z., and Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A novel approach, the identity method, was used for particle identification and the study of fluctuations of particle yield ratios in Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). This procedure allows to unfold the moments of the unknown multiplicity distributions of protons (p), kaons (K), pions ($\pi$) and electrons (e). Using these moments the excitation function of the fluctuation measure $\nu_{\text{\text{dyn}}}$[A,B] was measured, with A and B denoting different particle types. The obtained energy dependence of $\nu_{\text{dyn}}$ agrees with previously published NA49 results on the related measure $\sigma_{\text{dyn}}$. Moreover, $\nu_{\text{dyn}}$ was found to depend on the phase space coverage for [K,p] and [K,$\pi$] pairs. This feature most likely explains the reported differences between measurements of NA49 and those of STAR in central Au+Au collisions.
Published: 2013
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13. Measurement of negatively charged pion spectra in inelastic p+p interactions at $p_{lab}$ = 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c

Author: Collaboration, NA61/SHINE, Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Baatar, B., Bay, F., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bravar, A., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Drozhzhova, T., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Fulop, A., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hierholzer, M., Idczak, R., Igolkin, S., Ivashkin, A., Joković, D., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Kaptur, E., Kiełczewska, D., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kiss, T., Kleinfelder, S., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kovesarki, P., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., László, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Manić, D., Marcinek, A., Marin, V., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Mrówczyński, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Pistillo, C., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Płaneta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadała, M., Puławski, S., Puzović, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Redij, A., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Savić, M., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Sgalaberna, D., Shibata, M., Sipos, R., Skrzypczak, E., Słodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Ströbele, H., Šuša, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Tereshchenko, V., Tolyhi, T., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberič, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present experimental results on inclusive spectra and mean multiplicities of negatively charged pions produced in inelastic p+p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 20, 31, 40, 80 and 158 GeV/c ($\sqrt{s} = $ 6.3, 7.7, 8.8, 12.3 and 17.3 GeV, respectively). The measurements were performed using the large acceptance NA61/SHINE hadron spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Two-dimensional spectra are determined in terms of rapidity and transverse momentum. Their properties such as the width of rapidity distributions and the inverse slope parameter of transverse mass spectra are extracted and their collision energy dependences are presented. The results on inelastic p+p interactions are compared with the corresponding data on central Pb+Pb collisions measured by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. The results presented in this paper are part of the NA61/SHINE ion program devoted to the study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement and search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter. They are required for interpretation of results on nucleus-nucleus and proton-nucleus collisions., Comment: Numerical results available at: https://edms.cern.ch/document/1314605 Updates in v3: Updated version, as accepted for publication
Published: 2013
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14. Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E. C., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bhattarai, P., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderóndela Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Dilks, C., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Girard, M., Gliske, S., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jang, H., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kalinkin, D., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Khan, Z. H., Kikola, D. P., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Kycia, R. A., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Noh, S. Y., Novak, J., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Peterson, A., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Qiu, H., Quintero, A., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, W. B., Schmitz, N., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shanmuganathan, P. V., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Sumbera, M., Sun, X., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yan, W., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Ye, Z., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We report the beam energy (\sqrt s_{NN} = 7.7 - 200 GeV) and collision centrality dependence of the mean (M), standard deviation (\sigma), skewness (S), and kurtosis (\kappa) of the net-proton multiplicity distributions in Au+Au collisions. The measurements are carried out by the STAR experiment at midrapidity (|y| < 0.5) and within the transverse momentum range 0.4 < pT < 0.8 GeV/c in the first phase of the Beam Energy Scan program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. These measurements are important for understanding the Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) phase diagram. The products of the moments, S\sigma and \kappa\sigma^{2}, are sensitive to the correlation length of the hot and dense medium created in the collisions and are related to the ratios of baryon number susceptibilities of corresponding orders. The products of moments are found to have values significantly below the Skellam expectation and close to expectations based on independent proton and anti-proton production. The measurements are compared to a transport model calculation to understand the effect of acceptance and baryon number conservation, and also to a hadron resonance gas model., Comment: 7 pages and 4 figures
Published: 2013
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15. Measurements of Production Properties of K0S mesons and Lambda hyperons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c

Author: Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Ali, Y., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Argyriades, J., Baatar, B., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bravar, A., Brooks, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Dembinski, H., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Drozhzhova, T., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Esposito, L., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Fulop, A., Gaździcki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Hakobyan, H., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Hierholzer, M., Idczak, R., Igolkin, S., Ivanov, Y., Ivashkin, A., Jokovic, D., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Katrynska, N., Kaptur, E., Kielczewska, D., Kikola, D., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kiss, T., Kleinfelder, S., Kobayashi, T., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kuleshov, S., Kurepin, A., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Maletic, D., Manic, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Marin, V., Marton, K., Mathes, H. -J., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Mrówczyński, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nirkko, M., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Peryt, W., Pistillo, C., Redij, A., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadała, M., Puławski, S., Puzovic, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Röhrich, D., Rondio, E., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Savic, M., Schmidt, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Sipos, R., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Tereshchenko, V., Tolyhi, T., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Vinogradov, L., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek, A., Wyszyński, O., Zambelli, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Spectra of K0S mesons and Lambda hyperons were measured in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The data were collected with an isotropic graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length. Interaction cross sections, charged pion spectra, and charged kaon spectra were previously measured using the same data set. Results on K0S and Lambda production in p+C interactions serve as reference for the understanding of the enhancement of strangeness production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Moreover, they provide important input for the improvement of neutrino flux predictions for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. Inclusive production cross sections for K0S and Lambda are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in intervals of the laboratory polar angle covering the range from 0 up to 240 mrad. The results are compared with predictions of several hadron production models. The K0S mean multiplicity in production processes and the inclusive cross section for K0S production were measured and amount to 0.127 +- 0.005 (stat) +- 0.022 (sys) and 29.0 +- 1.6 (stat) +- 5.0 (sys) mb, respectively.
Published: 2013
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16. Neutral pion cross section and spin asymmetries at intermediate pseudorapidity in polarized proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: STAR Collaboration, Adamczyk, L., Adkins, J. K., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anson, C. D., Aparin, A., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bültmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Das, S., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., di Ruzza, B., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Engle, K. S., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Flores, C. E., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Garand, D., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Guo, Y., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L. -X., Haque, R., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, I., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., Landry, K. D., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Ramachandran, S., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Roy, A., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sahu, P. K., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shen, W. Q., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thomas, J. H., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vertesi, R., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, L., Yip, K., Yoo, I. -K., Zawisza, Y., Zbroszczyk, H., Zha, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of the third harmonic coefficient of the azimuthal anisotropy, v_3, known as triangular flow. The analysis is for charged particles in Au+Au collisions at sqrtsNN = 200 GeV, based on data from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Two-particle correlations as a function of their pseudorapidity separation are fit with narrow and wide Gaussians. Measurements of triangular flow are extracted from the wide Gaussian, from two-particle cumulants with a pseudorapidity gap, and also from event plane analysis methods with a large pseudorapidity gap between the particles and the event plane. These results are reported as a function of transverse momentum and centrality. A large dependence on the pseudorapidity gap is found. Results are compared with other experiments and model calculations., Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2013
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25. Critical fluctuations of the proton density in A+A collisions at $158A$ GeV

Author: Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Beck, J., Betev, L., Białkowska, H., Blume, C., Bogusz, M., Boimska, B., Book, J., Botje, M., Bunčić, P., Cetner, T., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Chvala, O., Cramer, J., Eckardt, V., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Gaździcki, M., Grebieszkow, K., Höhne, C., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kowalski, M., Kresan, D., Laszlo, A., Lacey, R., van Leeuwen, M., Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, M., Makariev, M., Malakhov, A. I., Mateev, M., Melkumov, G. L., Mitrovski, M., Mrówczyński, St., Pálla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Peryt, W., Pluta, J., Prindle, D., Pühlhofer, F., Renfordt, R., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rustamov, A., Rybczyński, M., Rybicki, A., Sandoval, A., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T., Seyboth, P., Siklér, F., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Stefanek, G., Stock, R., Ströbele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Varga, D., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G. I., Vesztergombi, G., Vranić, D., Włodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarć, A., Antoniou, N. G., Davis, N., and Diakonos, F. K.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: We look for fluctuations expected for the QCD critical point using an intermittency analysis in the transverse momentum phase space of protons produced around midrapidity in the 12.5\% most central C+C, Si+Si and Pb+Pb collisions at the maximum SPS energy of 158$A$~GeV. We find evidence of power-law fluctuations for the Si+Si data. The fitted power-law exponent $\phi_{2} = 0.96^{+0.38}_{-0.25}\text{ (stat.)}$ $\pm 0.16\text{ (syst.)}$ is consistent with the va\-lue expected for critical fluctuations. Power-law fluctuations had previously also been observed in low-mass $\pi^+ \pi^-$ pairs in the same Si+Si collisions., Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2012

26. Pion emission from the T2K replica target: method, results and application

Author: Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Argyriades, J., Baatar, B., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogomilov, M., Bravar, A., Brooks, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bubak, A., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Debieux, S., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Dynowski, K., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Esposito, L. S., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Ferrero, A., Fulop, A., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grabez, B., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hakobyan, H., Hasegawa, T., Idczak, R., Igolkin, S., Ivanov, Y., Ivashkin, A., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Katrynska, N., Kielczewska, D., Kikola, D., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kiss, T., Kleinfelder, S., Kobayashi, T., Kochebina, O., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kuleshov, S., Kurepin, A., Lacey, R., Larsen, D., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Maksiak, B., Malakhov, A. I., Maletic, D., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Maris, I., Marin, V., Marton, K., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Messina, M., Mrowczynski, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Puzovic, J., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rustamov, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Savic, M., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Sipos, R., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strabel, C., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tereshchenko, V., Tolyhi, T., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Wyszynski, O., Zambelli, L., Zipper, W., Galymov, V., Hartz, M., Ichikawa, A. K., Kubo, H., Marino, A. D., Matsuoka, K., Murakami, A., Nakaya, T., Suzuki, K., Yuan, T., and Zimmerman, E. D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan needs precise predictions of the initial neutrino flux. The highest precision can be reached based on detailed measurements of hadron emission from the same target as used by T2K exposed to a proton beam of the same kinetic energy of 30 GeV. The corresponding data were recorded in 2007-2010 by the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS using a replica of the T2K graphite target. In this paper details of the experiment, data taking, data analysis method and results from the 2007 pilot run are presented. Furthermore, the application of the NA61/SHINE measurements to the predictions of the T2K initial neutrino flux is described and discussed., Comment: updated version as published by NIM A
Published: 2012
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27. System-size and centrality dependence of charged kaon and pion production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 40A GeV and158A GeV beam energy

Author: NA49 Collaboration, Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Beck, H., Betev, L., Bialkowska, H., Blume, C., Bogusz, M., Boimska, B., Book, J., Botje, M., Buncic, P., Cetner, T., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Chvala, O., Cramer, J. G., Dinkelaker, P., Eckardt, V., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Gazdzicki, M., Grebieszkow, K., Höhne, C., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kliemant, M., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kollegger, T., Kowalski, M., Kresan, D., Laszlo, A., Lacey, R., van Leeuwen, M., Lungwitz, B., Mackowiak, M., Makariev, M., Malakhov, A. I., Mateev, M., Melkumov, G. L., Mitrovski, M., Mrowczynski, St., Nicolic, V., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Peryt, W., Pluta, J., Prindle, D., Pühlhofer, F., Renfordt, R., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, 1 A., Sandoval, A., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T., Seyboth, P., Sikler, F., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Stefanek, G., Stock, R., Ströbele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Utvic, M., Varga, D., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G. I., Vesztergombi, G., Vranic, D., Wlodarczyk, Z., and Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Measurements of charged pion and kaon production are presented in centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions at 40A GeV and 158A GeV beam energy as well as in semi-central C+C and Si+Si interactions at 40A GeV. Transverse mass spectra, rapidity spectra and total yields are determined as a function of centrality. The system-size and centrality dependence of relative strangeness production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 40A GeV and 158A GeV beam energy are derived from the data presented here and published data for C+C and Si+Si collisions at 158A GeV beam energy. At both energies a steep increase with centrality is observed for small systems followed by a weak rise or even saturation for higher centralities. This behavior is compared to calculations using transport models (UrQMD and HSD), a percolation model and the core-corona approach., Comment: 32 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, typo table II corrected
Published: 2012
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28. Single Spin Asymmetry $A_N$ in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chang, Z., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Chwastowski, J., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Dion, A., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fazio, S., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Gibson, A., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisel, I., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kulakov, Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Luszczak, A., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Don, D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige, Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nelson, J. M., Nogach, L. V., Novak, J., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Ostrowski, P., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Y. X., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pawlik, B., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Przybycien, M., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ross, J. F., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandacz, A., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmidke, B., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, D., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Turnau, J., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., Zoulkarneeva, Y., and Zyzak, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report on mid-rapidity mass spectrum of di-electrons and cross sections of pseudoscalar and vector mesons via $e^{+}e^{-}$ decays, from $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV $p+p$ collisions, measured by the large acceptance experiment STAR at RHIC. The ratio of the di-electron continuum to the combinatorial background is larger than 10% over the entire mass range. Simulations of di-electrons from light-meson decays and heavy-flavor decays (charmonium and open charm correlation) are found to describe the data. The extracted $\omega\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$ invariant yields are consistent with previous measurements. The mid-rapidity yields ($dN/dy$) of $\phi$ and $J/\psi$ are extracted through their di-electron decay channels and are consistent with the previous measurements of $\phi\rightarrow K^{+}K^{-}$ and $J/\psi\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$. Our results suggest a new upper limit of the branching ratio of the $\eta \rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}$ of $1.7\times10^{-5}$ at 90% confidence level., Comment: 15 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables. Published
Published: 2012
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33. Inclusive J/psi production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV

Author: ALICE Collaboration, Abelev, B., Adam, J., Adamova, D., Adare, A. M., Aggarwal, M. M., Rinella, G. Aglieri, Agocs, A. G., Agostinelli, A., Salazar, S. Aguilar, Ahammed, Z., Masoodi, A. Ahmad, Ahmad, N., Ahn, S. U., Akindinov, A., Aleksandrov, D., Alessandro, B., Molina, R. Alfaro, Alici, A., Alkin, A., Avina, E. Almaraz, Alme, J., Alt, T., Altini, V., Altinpinar, S., Altsybeev, I., Andrei, C., Andronic, A., Anguelov, V., Anielski, J., Anson, C., Anticic, T., Antinori, F., Antonioli, P., Aphecetche, L., Appelshauser, H., Arbor, N., Arcelli, S., Arend, A., Armesto, N., Arnaldi, R., Aronsson, T., Arsene, I. C., Arslandok, M., Asryan, A., Augustinus, A., Averbeck, R., Awes, T. C., Aysto, J., Azmi, M. D., Bach, M., Badala, A., Baek, Y. W., Bailhache, R., Bala, R., Ferroli, R. Baldini, Baldisseri, A., Baldit, A., Pedrosa, F. Baltasar Dos Santos, Ban, J., Baral, R. C., Barbera, R., Barile, F., Barnafoldi, G. G., Barnby, L. S., Barret, V., Bartke, J., Basile, M., Bastid, N., Bathen, B., Batigne, G., Batyunya, B., Baumann, C., Bearden, I. G., Beck, H., Belikov, I., Bellini, F., Bellwied, R., Belmont-Moreno, E., Bencedi, G., Beole, S., Berceanu, I., Bercuci, A., Berdnikov, Y., Berenyi, D., Bergmann, C., Berzano, D., Betev, L., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bianchi, L., Bianchi, N., Bianchin, C., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bjelogrlic, S., Blanco, F., Blau, D., Blume, C., Boccioli, M., Bock, N., Bogdanov, A., Boggild, H., Bogolyubsky, M., Boldizsar, L., Bombara, M., Book, J., Borel, H., Borissov, A., Bose, S., Bossu, F., Botje, M., Bottger, S., Boyer, B., Braidot, E., Braun-Munzinger, P., Bregant, M., Breitner, T., Browning, T. A., Broz, M., Brun, R., Bruna, E., Bruno, G. E., Budnikov, D., Buesching, H., Bufalino, S., Bugaiev, K., Busch, O., Buthelezi, Z., Orduna, D. Caballero, Caffarri, D., Cai, X., Caines, H., Villar, E. Calvo, Camerini, P., Roman, V. Canoa, Romeo, G. Cara, Carena, W., Carena, F., Filho, N. Carlin, Carminati, F., Montoya, C. A. Carrillo, Diaz, A. Casanova, Castellanos, J. Castillo, Hernandez, J. F. Castillo, Casula, E. A. R., Catanescu, V., Cavicchioli, C., Cepila, J., Cerello, P., Chang, B., Chapeland, S., Charvet, J. L., Chattopadhyay, S., Chawla, I., Cherney, M., Cheshkov, C., Cheynis, B., Chiavassa, E., Barroso, V. Chibante, Chinellato, D. D., Chochula, P., Chojnacki, M., Christakoglou, P., Christensen, C. H., Christiansen, P., Chujo, T., Chung, S. U., Cicalo, C., Cifarelli, L., Cindolo, F., Cleymans, J., Coccetti, F., Colamaria, F., Colella, D., Balbastre, G. Conesa, del Valle, Z. Conesa, Constantin, P., Contin, G., Contreras, J. G., Cormier, T. M., Morales, Y. Corrales, Cortese, P., Maldonado, I. Cortes, Cosentino, M. R., Costa, F., Cotallo, M. E., Crescio, E., Crochet, P., Alaniz, E. Cruz, Cuautle, E., Cunqueiro, L., Dainese, A., Dalsgaard, H. H., Danu, A., Das, K., Das, I., Das, D., Dash, A., Dash, S., De, S., de Barros, G. O. V., De Caro, A., de Cataldo, G., de Cuveland, J., De Falco, A., De Gruttola, D., Delagrange, H., Sanchez, E. Del Castillo, Deloff, A., Demanov, V., De Marco, N., Denes, E., De Pasquale, S., Deppman, A., Erasmo, G. D, de Rooij, R., Corchero, M. A. Diaz, Di Bari, D., Dietel, T., Di Giglio, C., Di Liberto, S., Di Mauro, A., Di Nezza, P., Divia, R., Djuvsland, O., Dobrin, A., Dobrowolski, T., Dominguez, I., Donigus, B., Dordic, O., Driga, O., Dubey, A. K., Ducroux, L., Dupieux, P., Majumdar, A. K. Dutta, Majumdar, M. R. Dutta, Elia, D., Emschermann, D., Engel, H., Erdal, H. A., Espagnon, B., Estienne, M., Esumi, S., Evans, D., Eyyubova, G., Fabris, D., Faivre, J., Falchieri, D., Fantoni, A., Fasel, M., Fearick, R., Fedunov, A., Fehlker, D., Feldkamp, L., Felea, D., Feofilov, G., Tellez, A. Fernandez, Ferreiro, E. G., Ferretti, A., Ferretti, R., Figiel, J., Figueredo, M. A. S., Filchagin, S., Finogeev, D., Fionda, F. M., Fiore, E. 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Xaplanteris, Yang, H., Yang, S., Yasnopolskiy, S., Yi, J., Yin, Z., Yokoyama, H., Yoo, I. -K., Yoon, J., Yu, W., Yuan, X., Yushmanov, I., Zach, C., Zampolli, C., Zaporozhets, S., Zarochentsev, A., Zavada, P., Zaviyalov, N., Zbroszczyk, H., Zelnicek, P., Zgura, I. S., Zhalov, M., Zhang, X., Zhou, D., Zhou, Y., Zhou, F., Zhu, X., Zichichi, A., Zimmermann, A., Zinovjev, G., Zoccarato, Y., and Zynovyev, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The ALICE Collaboration has measured inclusive J/psi production in pp collisions at a center of mass energy sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV at the LHC. The results presented in this Letter refer to the rapidity ranges |y|<0.9 and 2.5
Published: 2012
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34. Measurement of the $W \to e \nu$ and $Z/\gamma^* \to e^+e^-$ Production Cross Sections at Mid-rapidity in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV

Author: STAR Collaboration, Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Butterworth, J., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca, Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., de Souza, R. Derradi, Dhamija, S., Didenko, L., Ding, F., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunkelberger, L. E., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Gliske, S., Gorbunov, Y. N., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Horvat, S., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Huck, P., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kesich, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Morozov, B., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pan, Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Poskanzer, A. M., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Riley, C. K., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, B., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., deSouza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Videbæk, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Voloshin, S. A., Vossen, A., Wada, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xin, K., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yi, Y., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report measurements of the charge-separated $W^{+(-)} \to e^{+(-)} + \nu_e(\bar{\nu}_e)$ and $Z/\gamma^* \to e^+e^-$ production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV. These results are based on 13.2 pb$^{-1}$ of data recorded in 2009 by the STAR detector at RHIC. Production cross sections for W bosons that decay via the $e \nu$ channel were measured to be $\sigma(pp \to W^+ X) \cdot BR(W^+ \to e^+ \nu_e)$ = 117.3 \pm 5.9(stat) \pm 6.2(syst) \pm 15.2(lumi) pb, and $\sigma(pp \to W^- X) \cdot BR(W^- \to e^- \bar{\nu}_e)$ = 43.3 \pm 4.6(stat) \pm 3.4(syst) \pm 5.6(lumi) pb. For $Z/\gamma^*$ production, $\sigma(pp \to Z/\gamma^* X) \cdot BR(Z/\gamma^* \to e^+ e^-)$ = 7.7 \pm 2.1(stat) $^{+0.5}_{-0.9}$(syst) \pm 1.0(lumi) pb for di-lepton invariant masses $m_{e^+e^-}$ between 70 and 110 GeV/$c^2$. First measurements of the W cross section ratio, $\sigma(pp \to W^+ X) / \sigma(pp \to W^- X)$, at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections., Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2011
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35. Measurement of Production Properties of Positively Charged Kaons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c

Author: Collaboration, The NA61/SHINE, Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Argyriades, J., Baatar, B., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogusz, M., Boldizsar, L., Bravar, A., Brooks, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bubak, A., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Cetner, T., Choi, K. -U., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Esposito, L. S., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Ferrero, A., Fulop, A., Garrido, X., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Haesler, A., Hakobyan, H., Hasegawa, T., Idczak, R., Ivanov, Y., Ivashkin, A., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Katrynska, N., Kielczewska, D., Kikola, D., Kim, J. -H., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kochebina, O., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalski, S., Krasnoperov, A., Kuleshov, S., Kurepin, A., Lacey, R., Lagoda, J., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak-Pawlowska, M., Majka, Z., Malakhov, A. I., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Maris, I., Marin, V., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Meregaglia, A., Messina, M., Mrowczynski, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Paul, T., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strabel, C., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szaflik, P., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tereshchenko, V., Tsenov, R., Turko, L., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Veberic, D., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A., Yi, J. -G., Yoo, I. -K., Zambelli, L., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Spectra of positively charged kaons in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c were measured with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data collected in 2007 with a graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length. Interaction cross sections and charged pion spectra were already measured using the same set of data. These new measurements in combination with the published ones are required to improve predictions of the neutrino flux for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. In particular, the knowledge of kaon production is crucial for precisely predicting the intrinsic electron neutrino component and the high energy tail of the T2K beam. The results are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in 2 intervals of the laboratory polar angle covering the range from 20 up to 240 mrad. The kaon spectra are compared with predictions of several hadron production models. Using the published pion results and the new kaon data, the K+/\pi+ ratios are computed., Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2011
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36. Energy and system-size dependence of two- and four-particle $v_2$ measurements in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and their implications on flow fluctuations and nonflow

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

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

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

Author: STAR Collaboration, Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., Bhasin, A., Bhati, A. K., Bichsel, H., Bielcik, J., Bielcikova, J., Bland, L. C., Bordyuzhin, I. G., Borowski, W., Bouchet, J., Braidot, E., Brandin, A. V., Brovko, S. G., Bruna, E., Bueltmann, S., Bunzarov, I., Burton, T. P., Cai, X. Z., Caines, H., Calderon, M., Cebra, D., Cendejas, R., Cervantes, M. C., Chaloupka, P., Chattopadhyay, S., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. H., Chen, J. Y., Chen, L., Cheng, J., Cherney, M., Chikanian, A., Christie, W., Chung, P., Codrington, M. J. M., Corliss, R., Cramer, J. G., Crawford, H. J., Cui, X., Leyva, A. Davila, De Silva, L. C., Debbe, R. R., Dedovich, T. G., Deng, J., Derevschikov, A. A., de Souza, R. Derradi, Didenko, L., Djawotho, P., Dong, X., Drachenberg, J. L., Draper, J. E., Du, C. M., Dunlop, J. C., Efimov, L. G., Elnimr, M., Engelage, J., Eppley, G., Estienne, M., Eun, L., Evdokimov, O., Fatemi, R., Fedorisin, J., Fersch, R. G., Filip, P., Finch, E., Fine, V., Fisyak, Y., Gagliardi, C. A., Gangadharan, D. R., Geurts, F., Ghosh, P., Gorbunov, Y. N., Gordon, A., Grebenyuk, O. G., Grosnick, D., Gupta, A., Gupta, S., Guryn, W., Haag, B., Hajkova, O., Hamed, A., Han, L-X., Harris, J. W., Hays-Wehle, J. P., Heppelmann, S., Hirsch, A., Hoffmann, G. W., Hofman, D. J., Huang, B., Huang, H. Z., Humanic, T. J., Huo, L., Igo, G., Jacobs, W. W., Jena, C., Joseph, J., Judd, E. G., Kabana, S., Kang, K., Kapitan, J., Kauder, K., Ke, H. W., Keane, D., Kechechyan, A., Kettler, D., Kikola, D. P., Kiryluk, J., Kisiel, A., Kizka, V., Klein, S. R., Koetke, D. D., Kollegger, T., Konzer, J., Koralt, I., Koroleva, L., Korsch, W., Kotchenda, L., Kravtsov, P., Krueger, K., Kumar, L., Lamont, M. A. C., Landgraf, J. M., LaPointe, S., Lauret, J., Lebedev, A., Lednicky, R., Lee, J. H., Leight, W., LeVine, M. J., Li, C., Li, L., Li, W., Li, X., Li, Y., Li, Z. M., Lima, L. M., Lisa, M. A., Liu, F., Ljubicic, T., Llope, W. J., Longacre, R. S., Lu, Y., Lukashov, E. V., Luo, X., Ma, G. L., Ma, Y. G., Mahapatra, D. P., Majka, R., Mall, O. I., Manweiler, R., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Masui, H., Matis, H. S., McDonald, D., McShane, T. S., Meschanin, A., Milner, R., Minaev, N. G., Mioduszewski, S., Mitrovski, M. K., Mohammed, Y., Mohanty, B., Mondal, M. M., Morozov, B., Morozov, D. A., Munhoz, M. G., Mustafa, M. K., Naglis, M., Nandi, B. K., Nasim, Md., Nayak, T. K., Nogach, L. V., Nurushev, S. B., Odyniec, G., Ogawa, A., Oh, K., Ohlson, A., Okorokov, V., Oldag, E. W., Oliveira, R. A. N., Olson, D., Pachr, M., Page, B. S., Pal, S. K., Pandit, Y., Panebratsev, Y., Pawlak, T., Pei, H., Peitzmann, T., Perkins, C., Peryt, W., Pile, P., Planinic, M., Pluta, J., Plyku, D., Poljak, N., Porter, J., Powell, C. B., Prindle, D., Pruneau, C., Pruthi, N. K., Pujahari, P. R., Putschke, J., Qiu, H., Raniwala, R., Raniwala, S., Ray, R. L., Redwine, R., Reed, R., Ritter, H. G., Roberts, J. B., Rogachevskiy, O. V., Romero, J. L., Ruan, L., Rusnak, J., Sahoo, N. R., Sakrejda, I., Salur, S., Sandweiss, J., Sangaline, E., Sarkar, A., Schambach, J., Scharenberg, R. P., Schaub, J., Schmah, A. M., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T. R., Seele, J., Seger, J., Selyuzhenkov, I., Seyboth, P., Shah, N., Shahaliev, E., Shao, M., Sharma, M., Shi, S. S., Shou, Q. Y., Sichtermann, E. P., Simon, F., Singaraju, R. N., Skoby, M. J., Smirnov, N., Solanki, D., Sorensen, P., de Souza, U. G., Spinka, H. M., Srivastava, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Steadman, S. G., Stevens, J. R., Stock, R., Strikhanov, M., Stringfellow, B., Suaide, A. A. P., Suarez, M. C., Sumbera, M., Sun, X. M., Sun, Y., Sun, Z., Surrow, B., Svirida, D. N., Symons, T. J. M., de Toledo, A. Szanto, Takahashi, J., Tang, A. H., Tang, Z., Tarini, L. H., Tarnowsky, T., Thein, D., Thomas, J. H., Tian, J., Timmins, A. R., Tlusty, D., Tokarev, M., Trainor, T. A., Trentalange, S., Tribble, R. E., Tribedy, P., Trzeciak, B. A., Tsai, O. D., Ullrich, T., Underwood, D. G., Van Buren, G., van Nieuwenhuizen, G., Vanfossen, Jr., J. A., Varma, R., Vasconcelos, G. M. S., Vasiliev, A. N., Videbaek, F., Viyogi, Y. P., Vokal, S., Wada, M., Walker, M., Wang, F., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, J. S., Wang, Q., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y., Webb, G., Webb, J. C., Westfall, G. D., Whitten Jr., C., Wieman, H., Wissink, S. W., Witt, R., Witzke, W., Wu, Y. F., Xiao, Z., Xie, W., Xu, H., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, W., Xu, Y., Xu, Z., Xue, L., Yang, Y., Yepes, P., Yip, K., Yoo, I-K., Zawisza, M., Zbroszczyk, H., Zhan, W., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, S., Zhang, W. M., Zhang, X. P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, F., Zhao, J., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y. H., and Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present two-dimensional (2D) two-particle angular correlations on relative pseudorapidity $\eta$ and azimuth $\phi$ for charged particles from Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 62$ and 200 GeV with transverse momentum $p_t \geq 0.15$ GeV/$c$, $|\eta| \leq 1$ and $2\pi$ azimuth. Observed correlations include a {same-side} (relative azimuth $< \pi/2$) 2D peak, a closely-related away-side azimuth dipole, and an azimuth quadrupole conventionally associated with elliptic flow. The same-side 2D peak and away-side dipole are explained by semihard parton scattering and fragmentation (minijets) in proton-proton and peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions. Those structures follow N-N binary-collision scaling in Au-Au collisions until mid-centrality where a transition to a qualitatively different centrality trend occurs within a small centrality interval. Above the transition point the number of same-side and away-side correlated pairs increases rapidly {relative to} binary-collision scaling, the $\eta$ width of the same-side 2D peak also increases rapidly ($\eta$ elongation) and the $\phi$ width actually decreases significantly. Those centrality trends are more remarkable when contrasted with expectations of jet quenching in a dense medium. Observed centrality trends are compared to {\sc hijing} predictions and to the expected trends for semihard parton scattering and fragmentation in a thermalized opaque medium. We are unable to reconcile a semihard parton scattering and fragmentation origin for the observed correlation structure and centrality trends with heavy ion collision scenarios which invoke rapid parton thermalization. On the other hand, if the collision system is effectively opaque to few-GeV partons the observations reported here would be inconsistent with a minijet picture., Comment: 26 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2011
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40. 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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41. Proton -- Lambda Correlations in Central Pb+Pb Collisions at sqrt(s_{NN}) = 17.3 GeV

Author: Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Beck, H., Betev, L., Bialkowska, H., Blume, C., Bogusz, M., Boimska, B., Book, J., Botje, M., Buncic, P., Cetner, T., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Chvala, O., Cramer, J., Eckardt, V., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Gazdzicki, M., Grebieszkow, K., Hohne, C., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kolesnikov, V., Kowalski, M., Kresan, D., Laszlo, A., Lacey, R., van Leeuwen, M., Mackowiak, M. K., Makariev, M., Malakhov, A., Mateev, M., Melkumov, G., Mitrovski, M., Mrowczynski, St., Nicolic, V., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A., Peryt, W., Pluta, J., Prindle, D., Puhlhofer, F., Renfordt, R., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rybczynski, M., Rybicki, A., Sandoval, A., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T., Seyboth, P., Sikler, F., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Stefanek, G., Stock, R., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Utvic, M., Varga, D., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G., Vesztergombi, G., Vranic, D., Wlodarczyk, Z., and Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The momentum correlation between protons and lambda particles emitted from central Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(s_{NN}) = 17.3 GeV was studied by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. A clear enhancement is observed for small relative momenta (q_{inv} < 0.2 GeV). By fitting a theoretical model, which uses the strong interaction between the proton and the lambda in a given pair, to the measured data a value for the effective source size is deduced. Assuming a static Gaussian source distribution we derive an effective radius parameter of R_G = 3.02 \pm 0.20$(stat.)^{+0.44}_{-0.16}(syst.) fm., Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2011
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42. 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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43. Measurements of Cross Sections and Charged Pion Spectra in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c

Author: Abgrall, N., Aduszkiewicz, A., Andrieu, B., Anticic, T., Antoniou, N., Argyriades, J., Asryan, A. G., Baatar, B., Blondel, A., Blumer, J., Bogusz, M., Boldizsar, L., Bravar, A., Brooks, W., Brzychczyk, J., Bubak, A., Bunyatov, S. A., Busygina, O., Cetner, T., Choi, K. -U., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Czopowicz, T., Davis, N., Diakonos, F., Di Luise, S., Dominik, W., Dumarchez, J., Engel, R., Ereditato, A., Esposito, L. S., Feofilov, G. A., Fodor, Z., Ferrero, A., Fulop, A., Garrido, X., Gazdzicki, M., Golubeva, M., Grebieszkow, K., Grzeszczuk, A., Guber, F., Hakobyan, H., Hasegawa, T., Igolkin, S., Ivanov, A. S., Ivanov, Y., Ivashkin, A., Kadija, K., Kapoyannis, A., Katrynska, N., Kielczewska, D., Kikola, D., Kim, J. -H., Kirejczyk, M., Kisiel, J., Kobayashi, T., Kochebina, O., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolev, D., Kondratiev, V. P., Korzenev, A., Kowalski, S., Kuleshov, S., Kurepin, A., Lacey, R., Lagoda, J., Laszlo, A., Lyubushkin, V. V., Mackowiak, M., Majka, Z., Malakhov, A. I., Marchionni, A., Marcinek, A., Maris, I., Marin, V., Matulewicz, T., Matveev, V., Melkumov, G. L., Meregaglia, A., Messina, M., Mrowczynski, St., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Naumenko, P. A., Nishikawa, K., Palczewski, T., Palla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Peryt, W., Petukhov, O., Planeta, R., Pluta, J., Popov, B. A., Posiadala, M., Pulawski, S., Rauch, W., Ravonel, M., Renfordt, R., Robert, A., Rohrich, D., Rondio, E., Rossi, B., Roth, M., Rubbia, A., Rybczynski, M., Sadovsky, A., Sakashita, K., Sekiguchi, T., Seyboth, P., Shibata, M., Sissakian, A. N., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Sorin, A. S., Staszel, P., Stefanek, G., Stepaniak, J., Strabel, C., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szaflik, P., Szuba, M., Tada, M., Taranenko, A., Tsenov, R., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Vassiliou, M., Vechernin, V. V., Vesztergombi, G., Wilczek, A., Wlodarczyk, Z., Wojtaszek, A., Yi, J. -G., Yoo, I. -K., and Zipper, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Interaction cross sections and charged pion spectra in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c were measured with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. These data are required to improve predictions of the neutrino flux for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. A set of data collected during the first NA61/SHINE run in 2007 with an isotropic graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length was used for the analysis. The measured p+C inelastic and production cross sections are 257.2 +- 1.9 +- 8.9 mb and 229.3 +- 1.9 +- 9.0 mb, respectively. Inclusive production cross sections for negatively and positively charged pions are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in 10 intervals of the laboratory polar angle covering the range from 0 up to 420 mrad. The spectra are compared with predictions of several hadron production models., Comment: updated version; as published by Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2011
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44. Energy dependence of kaon-to-proton ratio fluctuations in central Pb+Pb collisions from $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 6.3 to 17.3 GeV

Author: Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Beck, H., Betev, L., Białkowska, H., Blume, C., Bogusz, M., Boimska, B., Book, J., Botje, M., Bunčić, P., Cetner, T., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Chvala, O., Cramer, J. G., Eckardt, V., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Gaździcki, M., Grebieszkow, K., Höhne, C., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kollegger, T., Kowalski, M., Kresan, D., Laszlo, A., Lacey, R., van Leeuwen, M., Mackowiak, M., Makariev, M., Malakhov, A. I., Mateev, M., Melkumov, G. L., Mitrovski, M., Mrówczyński, St., Nicolic, V., Pálla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Peryt, W., Pluta, J., Prindle, D., Pühlhofer, F., Renfordt, R., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rybczyński, M., Rybicki, A., Sandoval, A., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T., Seyboth, P., Siklér, F., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Stefanek, G., Stock, R., Ströbele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Utvić, M., Varga, D., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G. I., Vesztergombi, G., Vranić, D., Włodarczyk, Z., and Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Kaons and protons carry large parts of two conserved quantities, strangeness and baryon number. It is argued that their correlation and thus also fluctuations are sensitive to conditions prevailing at the anticipated parton-hadron phase boundary. Fluctuations of the $(\mathrm{K}^+ + \mathrm{K}^-)/(\mathrm{p}+\bar{\mathrm{p}})$ and $\mathrm{K}^+/\mathrm{p}$ ratios have been measured for the first time by NA49 in central Pb+Pb collisions at 5 SPS energies between $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$= 6.3 GeV and 17.3 GeV. Both ratios exhibit a change of sign in $\sigma_{\mathrm{dyn}}$, a measure of non-statistical fluctuations, around $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 8 GeV. Below this energy, $\sigma_{\mathrm{dyn}}$ is positive, indicating higher fluctuation compared to a mixed event background sample, while for higher energies, $\sigma_{\mathrm{dyn}}$ is negative, indicating correlated emission of kaons and protons. The results are compared to UrQMD calculations which which give a good description at the higher SPS energies, but fail to reproduce the transition to positive values., Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2011
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45. 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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46. Centrality dependence of proton and antiproton spectra in Pb+Pb collisions at 40A GeV and 158A GeV measured at the CERN SPS

Author: Anticic, T., Baatar, B., Barna, D., Bartke, J., Beck, H., Betev, L., Bialkowska, H., Blume, C., Bogusz, M., Boimska, B., Book, J., Botje, M., Buncic, P., Cetner, T., Christakoglou, P., Chung, P., Chvala, O., Cramer, J. G., Eckardt, V., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Gazdzicki, M., Grebieszkow, K., Höhne, C., Kadija, K., Karev, A., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kowalski, M., Kresan, D., Laszlo, A., Lacey, R., van Leeuwen, M., Mackowiak, M., Makariev, M., Malakhov, A. I., Mateev, M., Melkumov, G. L., Mitrovski, M., Mrowczynski, S., Nicolic, V., Pálla, G., Panagiotou, A. D., Peryt, W., Pluta, J., Prindle, D., Pühlhofer, F., Renfordt, R., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rybczyński, M., Rybicki, A., Sandoval, A., Schmitz, N., Schuster, T., Seyboth, P., Sikler, F., Skrzypczak, E., Slodkowski, M., Stefanek, G., Stock, R., Strobele, H., Susa, T., Szuba, M., Utvic, M., Varga, D., Veres, M. Vassiliou G. I., Vesztergombi, G., Vranic, D., Włodarczyk, Z., and Wojtaszek-Szwarc, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The yields of (anti-)protons were measured by the NA49 Collaboration in centrality selected Pb+Pb collisions at 40A GeV and 158A GeV. Particle identification was obtained in the laboratory momentum range from 5 to 63 GeV/c by the measurement of the energy loss dE/dx in the TPC detector gas. The corresponding rapidity coverage extends 1.6 units from mid-rapidity into the forward hemisphere. Transverse mass spectra, the rapidity dependences of the average transverse mass, and rapidity density distributions were studied as a function of collision centrality. The values of the average transverse mass as well as the midrapidity yields of protons when normalized to the number of wounded nucleons show only modest centrality dependences. In contrast, the shape of the rapidity distribution changes significantly with collision centrality, especially at 40A GeV. The experimental results are compared to calculations of the HSD and UrQMD transport models., Comment: 25 pages, 12 figures, submitted to PRC
Published: 2010
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47. 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

48. 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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49. 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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50. 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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