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Azimuthal Anisotropy of Identified Hadrons in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions

The azimuthal anisotropy parameter v2 has been measured with high statistics for identified hadrons in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions with the STAR experiment. At high transverse momentum (pT) a strong v2 for pi+ + pi- and p + pbar…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Oldenburg

An experimental review on heavy flavor $v_{2}$ in heavy-ion collision

For over a decade now, the primary purpose of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been to study the properties of QCD matter under extreme conditions -high…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-07-19 Md. Nasim , Roli Esha , Huan Zhong Huang

Jet-like correlations of heavy-flavor particles - from RHIC to LHC

Measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed strong modification of the jet structure in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, which can be attributed to the interaction of hard…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Andre Mischke

Recent Heavy Flavor Results Utilizing the FVTX in PHENIX at RHIC

Heavy flavor and quarkona production are important hard probes to test the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and measure the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in high energy heavy ion collisions. The new PHENIX mid- and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Xuan Li

Open heavy flavour reconstruction in the ALICE central barrel

The ALICE experiment will be able to detect open charm and beauty hadrons in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions in the new energy regime of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Heavy flavours are a powerful tool to investigate the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-10-20 Francesco Prino

Probing Properties of Hot and Dense QCD Matter with Heavy Flavor in the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

Hadrons carrying heavy quarks, i.e. charm or bottom, are important probes of the hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Heavy quark-antiquark pairs are mainly produced in initial hard scattering processes of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-12-30 Rachid Nouicer

Measurements of the nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow of $\phi$ mesons at RHIC

The observation of meson and baryon grouping in the $R_{CP}$ and $v_2$ measurements at intermediate $p_T$ has been interpreted as a manifestation of bulk partonic matter hadronization through multi-parton dynamics such as recombination of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiangzhou Cai

Improved constraints on parton distributions using LHCb, ALICE and HERA heavy-flavour measurements and implications for the predictions for prompt atmospheric-neutrino fluxes

The impact of measurements of heavy-flavour production in deep inelastic $ep$ scattering and in $pp$ collisions on parton distribution functions is studied in a QCD analysis at next-to-leading order. Recent combined results of inclusive and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-04 O. Zenaiev , M. V. Garzelli , K. Lipka , S. -O. Moch , A. Cooper-Sarkar , F. Olness , A. Geiser , G. Sigl

Overview of recent results from the STAR experiment

The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) experiment utilizes its excellent mid-rapidity tracking and particle identification capabilities to study the emergent properties of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The STAR heavy-ion program at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Mustafa Mustafa

Two Particle Correlations at Forward Rapidity in STAR

During the 2008 run RHIC provided high luminosity in both p+p and d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 200$ GeV. Electromagnetic calorimeter acceptance in STAR was enhanced by the new Forward Meson Spectrometer (FMS), and is now almost…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Ermes Braidot

Heavy quarks at RHIC from parton transport theory

There are several indications that an opaque partonic medium is created in energetic Au+Au collisions \sqrt{s} ~ 100 GeV/nucleon at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). At the extreme densities of ~ 10-100 times normal nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Denes Molnar

Identical Meson Interferometry in STAR Experiment

The influence of Bose-Einstein statistics on multi-particle production characterized for various systems and energies by the STAR collaboration provides interesting information about the space-time dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Debasish Das

Nuclear Modification Factor of $D^0$ Meson in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV

Heavy-flavor quarks are dominantly produced in initial hard scattering processes and experience the whole evolution of the system in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies. Thus they are suggested to be an excellent probe to the medium…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Guannan Xie

Open and hidden heavy flavor measurements at RHIC

Quarks of heavy flavors are useful tool to study quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. Due to their high mass and early production time, heavy quarks experience the entire evolution of the system created in these collisions.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-11 Leszek Kosarzewski

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

We report a new measurement of the production cross section for inclusive electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays as a function of transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) at mid-rapidity ($|y|<$ 0.7) in $p$+$p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} =…

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The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has a rich spin physics program aimed at exploring the spin structure of the proton with polarized proton beams. In addition to the currently accessible channels, heavy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Frank Simon

Recent Findings from Heavy-Flavor Angular Correlation Measurements in Hadronic Collisions

The study of angular correlations of heavy-flavor particles in hadronic collisions can provide crucial insight into the heavy quark production, showering, and hadronization processes. The comparison with model predictions allows us to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-05 Deepa Thomas , Fabio Colamaria

Bulk Properties in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 9.2 GeV in STAR Experiment at RHIC

One of the primary goals of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is to establish the QCD phase diagram and search for possible phase boundaries. The planned RHIC energy scan program will explore this exciting physics topic using heavy-ion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Lokesh Kumar

Intermediate Silicon Tracker in sPHENIX at RHIC

The sPHENIX collaboration has been taking data since 2023 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in BNL to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma and cold Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The tracking system of sPHENIX consists of a time projection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-12 Cheng-Wei Shih

Observation of partonic collectivity via $p_{\rm T}$-differential radial flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 200$ GeV

We report the observation of partonic radial collectivity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 200$~GeV via the $p_{\rm T}$-differential flow observable $v_{0}(p_{\rm T})$ using the \texttt{AMPT} String Melting model. For inclusive…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-02-25 Rohit Agarwala , Dipankar Basak , Kalyan Dey