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Central Exclusive Production in the STAR Experiment at RHIC

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) performs studies of diffractive processes with the focus on the exclusive production of particles in central range of rapidity. In 2015 STAR collected 18 pb$^{-1}$ of data in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rafal Sikora

Exploring the higher-order QED effects on the differential distributions of Breit-Wheeler process in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Extensive studies have been conducted in the past few decades to investigate potential signatures of higher-order QED effects in high-energy electromagnetic scattering processes. In our previous work, we have identified evidence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Xinbai. Li , Jiaxuan. Luo , Zebo. Tang , Xin. Wu , Wangmei. Zha

Proton cumulants from hydrodynamics in light of new STAR data

New measurements of proton number cumulants from the Beam Energy Scan Phase II (BES-II) program at RHIC by the STAR Collaboration provide unprecedented precision and insights into the properties of strongly interacting matter. This report…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-03 Volodymyr Vovchenko , Volker Koch

Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to $\chi_{cJ} W^+ b$ associated production from top-quark decay

We calculate the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the excited charmonium $\chi_{cJ}$ associated with $ W^+ b $ production from top-quark decay. Our results show that detecting the $\chi_{c0}$ production from top-quark decay is very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Zhou Chao , Li Gang , Song Mao , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You

Some Striking New STAR Results

Recent high-statistics Au+Au and Cu+Cu runs at RHIC have provided a wealth of new data that allow STAR to answer several outstanding questions regarding the nature of the hot, dense medium that is created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 C. A. Gagliardi

Strongly interacting matter at RHIC: experimental highlights

Recent experimental results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) will be discussed. Investigations of different nucleus-nucleus collisions in recent years focus on two main tasks, namely, the detailed study of sQGP…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-08-05 V. A. Okorokov

Recent results on Central Exclusive Production with the STAR detector

We present results on the Central Exclusive Production of charged particle pairs $h^{+}h^{-}$ ($h = \pi, K, p$), $pp\to p^\prime+h^{+}h^{-}+p^\prime$, obtained with the STAR experiment at RHIC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-08-03 Rafal Sikora

Light-nuclei production and search for the QCD critical point

We discuss the potential of light-nuclei measurement in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies for the search of the hypothetical QCD critical end-point. A previous proposal based on neutron density fluctuations has brought appealing…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Edward Shuryak , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

Recent results from HADES on electron pair production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Systematic investigations of dilepton production are performed at the SIS accelerator of GSI with the HADES spectrometer. The goal of this program is a detailed understanding of di-electron emission from hadronic systems at moderate…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 The HADES Collaboration , T. Galatyuk , G. Agakishiev , A. Balanda , D. Belver , A. V. Belyaev , A. Blanco , M. Böhmer , J. L. Boyard , P. Braun-Munzinger , P. Cabanelas , E. Castro , S. Chernenko , T. Christ , M. Destefanis , J. Díaz , F. Dohrmann , A. Dybczak , L. Fabbietti , O. V. Fateev , P. Finocchiaro , P. Fonte , J. Friese , I. Fröhlich , J. A. Garzón , R. Gernhäuser , A. Gil , C. Gilardi , M. Golubeva , D. González-Díaz , F. Guber , T. Hennino , R. Holzmann , I. Iori , A. Ivashkin , M. Jurkovic , B. Kämpfer , T. Karavicheva , D. Kirschner , I. Koenig , W. Koenig , B. W. Kolb , R. Kotte , F. Krizek , R. Krücken , W. Kühn , A. Kugler , A. Kurepin , S. Lang , J. S. Lange , K. Lapidus , T. Liu , L. Lopes , M. Lorenz , L. Maier , A. Mangiarotti , J. Markert , V. Metag , B. Michalska , J. Michel , E. Morinière , J. Mousa , C. Müntz , L. Naumann , J. Otwinowski , Y. C. Pachmayer , M. Palka , Y. Parpottas , V. Pechenov , O. Pechenova , J. Pietraszko , W. Przygoda , B. Ramstein , A. Reshetin , A. Rustamov , A. Sadovsky , P. Salabura , A. Schmah , E. Schwab , Yu. G. Sobolev , S. Spataro , B. Spruck , H. Ströbele , J. Stroth , C. Sturm , M. Sudol , A. Tarantola , K. Teilab , P. Tlusty , M. Traxler , R. Trebacz , H. Tsertos , V. Wagner , M. Weber , M. Wisniowski , T. Wojcik , J. Wüstenfeld , S. Yurevich , Y. V. Zanevsky , P. Zhou

Low-$p_T$ $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair production in Au$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV and U$+$U collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 193 GeV at STAR

We report first measurements of $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair production in the mass region 0.4 $<M_{ee}<$ 2.6 GeV/$c^{2}$ at low transverse momentum ($p_T<$ 0.15 GeV/$c$) in non-central Au$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV and U$+$U…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-09-28 J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , N. N. Ajitanand , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , R. Aoyama , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , F. Atetalla , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , X. Bai , V. Bairathi , K. Barish , A. J. Bassill , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , D. Brown , J. Bryslawskyj , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , F-H. Chang , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , X. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , J. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , P. Federicova , J. Fedorisin , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , A. Harlenderova , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , A. Hirsch , L. Holub , S. Horvat , X. Huang , B. Huang , S. L. Huang , H. Z. Huang , T. Huang , T. J. Humanic , P. Huo , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jentsch , J. Jia , K. Jiang , S. Jowzaee , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , T. A. Kinghorn , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , S. R. Klein , L. Kochenda , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , L. Kramarik , L. Krauth , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga , S. Kumar , L. Kumar , J. Kvapil , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , C. Li , W. Li , Y. Li , Y. Liang , J. Lidrych , T. Lin , A. Lipiec , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , P. Liu , H. Liu , Y. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , S. Luo , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Ma , R. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , O. Matonoha , D. Mayes , J. A. Mazer , K. Meehan , J. C. Mei , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , Md. Nasim , J. D. Negrete , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , J. Porter , M. Posik , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , A. Quintero , S. K. Radhakrishnan , S. Ramachandran , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , J. Schambach , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , B. R. Schweid , F. Seck , J. Seger , M. Sergeeva , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , W. Q. Shen , F. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , S. Siejka , R. Sikora , M. Simko , S. Singha , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , W. Solyst , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , T. Sugiura , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Y. Sun , X. Sun , X. M. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , P. Szymanski , Z. Tang , A. H. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , M. Tokarev , C. A. Tomkiel , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , O. D. Tsai , B. Tu , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , J. Vanek , A. N. Vasiliev , I. Vassiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , J. C. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , Q. H. Xu , Z. Xu , J. Xu , Y. F. Xu , N. Xu , S. Yang , C. Yang , Q. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , Z. Zhang , L. Zhang , Y. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , J. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , C. Zhou , L. Zhou , Z. Zhu , X. Zhu , M. Zyzak

RHIC Critical Point Search: Assessing STAR's Capabilities

In this report we discuss the capabilities and limitations of the STAR detector to search for signatures of the QCD critical point in a low energy scan at RHIC. We find that a RHIC low energy scan will cover a broad region of interest in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-04-14 Paul Sorensen

High PT Physics with the STAR Experiment at RHIC

The STAR experiment at RHIC is a TPC-based, general purpose detector designed to obtain charged particle spectra, with an emphasis on hadrons over a large phase space. An electromagnetic calorimeter provides measurement of electrons,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Turner , the STAR Collaboration

Hard Probes with the STAR Experiment

Recent results on the use of hard probes in heavy ion collisions by the STAR experiment at RHIC are reviewed. The increased statistical reach from RHIC run 4 and utilization of the full capabilities of the STAR experiment have led to a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Dunlop , STAR Collaboration

Higher-order Coulomb Corrections to the Threshold e+ e- --> W+ W- Cross Section

The QED Coulomb correction is one of the most important corrections to the e+ e- --> W+ W- total cross section near threshold. We calculate these corrections through second order, and discuss the implications for extracting M_W from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 V. S. Fadin , V. A. Khoze , A. D. Martin , W. J. Stirling

Probing Parton Dynamics of QCD Matter with $\Omega$ and $\phi$ Production

We present measurements of $\Omega$ and $\phi$ production at mid-rapidity from Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-03-02 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , A. Banerjee , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , M. C. Cervantes , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , S. Chattopadhyay , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , W. Christie , G. Contin , H. J. Crawford , S. Das , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , A. A. Derevschikov , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , Z. Feng , P. Filip , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , L. Greiner , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamad , A. Hamed , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , B. Huang , H. Z. Huang , X. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , H. Jang , K. Jiang , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikoła , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , I. Kulakov , L. Kumar , R. A. Kycia , M. A. C. Lamont , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , Z. M. Li , Y. Li , W. Li , X. Li , C. Li , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , A. Manion , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , K. Meehan , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , G. Nigmatkulov , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , A. Peterson , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , N. Poljak , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , A. M. Poskanzer , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. Raniwala , S. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , A. Roy , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , A. Sarkar , J. Schambach , R. P. Scharenberg , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , M. K. Sharma , B. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , L. Song , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stepanov , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Z. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , X. Sun , B. Surrow , N. Svirida , M. A. Szelezniak , Z. Tang , A. H. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , A. Tawfik , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , M. Vandenbroucke , R. Varma , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , J. C. Webb , G. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. F. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , W. Xie , K. Xin , Y. F. Xu , Q. H. Xu , H. Xu , N. Xu , Z. Xu , Y. Yang , C. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Q. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , J. B. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , X. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Multiple exchanges in lepton pair production in high--energy heavy ion collisions

The recent analysis of nuclear distortions in DIS off nuclei revealed a breaking of the conventional hard factorization for multijet observable. The related pQCD analysis of distortion effects for jet production in nucleus-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 E. Bartos , S. R. Gevorkyan , E. A. Kuraev , N. N. Nikolaev

The First 3 Years at RHIC- an Overview

This is an overview of the results from the first 3 years of RHIC experiments. RHIC is a collider built to accelerate nuclei to center of mass energies of 200 GeV per nucleon for the study of QCD in bulk systems. The most important result…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-11-30 Richard Seto

"Pair production of scalar top quarks in e+e- collisions at ILC."

We study the pair production of scalar top quarks in e+e- collisions with the subsequent decay of the top squarks into b-quarks and charginos. We simulate this process using PYTHIA6.4 for beam energies 2E_beam = 350, 400, 500, 800, 1000…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Bartl , W. Majerotto , K. Moenig , A. N. Skachkova , N. B. Skachkov

Testing strong-field QED to second-order in the highly correlated atomic system berylliumlike Pb78+ by electron-ion recombination spectroscopy

A low-energy storage ring with an ultracold electron cooler has been coupled with a heavy-ion accelerator facilitating high-resolution electron-ion collision spectroscopy of the heaviest few-electron ions. In the present work resonant…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 S. Schippers , C. Brandau , S. Fuchs , M. Lestinsky , S. X. Wang , C. Y. Zhang , N. R. Badnell , A. Borovik , M. Fogle , V. Hannen , Z. Harman , P. -M. Hillenbrand , E. B. Menz , Y. Zhang , Z. Andelkovic , F. Herfurth , R. Heß , A. Kalinin , C. Kozhuharov , C. Krantz , S. Litvinov , B. Lorentz , U. Spillmann , M. Steck , G. Vorobyev , D. Banaś , S. Fritzsche , E. Lindroth , X. Ma , A. Müller , R. Schuch , A. Surzhykov , M. Trassinelli , K. Ueberholz , C. Weinheimer , Th. Stöhlker

Identified particle production, azimuthal anisotropy, and interferometry measurements in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 9.2 GeV

We present the first measurements of identified hadron production, azimuthal anisotropy, and pion interferometry from Au+Au collisions below the nominal injection energy at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) facility. The data were…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-03 STAR Collaboration , B. I. Abelev