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Overview of results from the STAR experiment at RHIC

The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) provides Au+Au collisions at energies up to \sqrtsNN=200 GeV. STAR experiment was designed and constructed to investigate the behavior of strongly interacting matter at high energy density. An…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 K. Filimonov , STAR Collaboration

Highlights from BNL and RHIC 2016

Highlights of news from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the period July 2015-2016 are presented. Transverse single spin asymmetries from polarized p+p collisions are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-05-31 M. J. Tannenbaum

Beam Test Results for New Full-scale GEM Prototypes for a Future Upgrade of the CMS High-eta Muon System

The CMS GEM collaboration is considering Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) for upgrading the CMS forward muon system in the 1.5<|eta|<2.4 endcap region. GEM detectors can provide precision tracking and fast trigger information. They would…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-19 D. Abbaneo , M. Abbrescia , C. Armagnaud , P. Aspell , Y. Assran , Y. Ban , S. Bally , L. Benussi , U. Berzano , S. Bianco , J. Bos , K. Bunkowski , J. Cai , J. P. Chatelain , J. Christiansen , S. Colafranceschi , A. Colaleo , A. Conde Garcia , E. David , G. de Robertis , R. De Oliveira , S. Duarte Pinto , S. Ferry , F. Formenti , L. Franconi , T. Fruboes , A. Gutierrez , M. Hohlmann , A. E. Kamel , P. E. Karchin , F. Loddo , G. Magazzu , M. Maggi , A. Marchioro , A. Marinov , K. Mehta , J. Merlin , A. Mohapatra , T. Moulik , M. V. Nemallapudi , S. Nuzzo , E. Oliveri , D. Piccolo , H. Postema , A. Radi , G. Raffone , A. Rodrigues , L. Ropelewski , G. Saviano , A. Sharma , M. J. Staib , H. Teng , M. Tytgat , S. A. Tupputi , N. Turini , N. Smilkjovic , M. Villa , N. Zaganidis , M. Zientek

Construction and Performance of Large-Area Triple-GEM Prototypes for Future Upgrades of the CMS Forward Muon System

At present, part of the forward RPC muon system of the CMS detector at the CERN LHC remains uninstrumented in the high-\eta region. An international collaboration is investigating the possibility of covering the 1.6 < |\eta| < 2.4 region of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-18 M. Tytgat , A. Marinov , N. Zaganidis , Y. Ban , J. Cai , H. Teng , A. Mohapatra , T. Moulik , M. Abbrescia , A. Colaleo , G. de Robertis , F. Loddo , M. Maggi , S. Nuzzo , S. A. Tupputi , L. Benussi , S. Bianco , S. Colafranceschi , D. Piccolo , G. Raffone , G. Saviano , M. G. Bagliesi , R. Cecchi , G. Magazzu , E. Oliveri , N. Turini , T. Fruboes , D. Abbaneo , C. Armagnaud , P. Aspell , S. Bally , U. Berzano , J. Bos , K. Bunkowski , J. P. Chatelain , J. Christiansen , A. Conde Garcia , E. David , R. De Oliveira , S. Duarte Pinto , S. Ferry , F. Formenti , L. Franconi , A. Marchioro , K. Mehta , J. Merlin , M. V. Nemallapudi , H. Postema , A. Rodrigues , L. Ropelewski , A. Sharma , N. Smilkjovic , M. Villa , M. Zientek , A. Gutierrez , P. E. Karchin , K. Gnanvo , M. Hohlmann , M. J. Staib

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

Results on Elastic Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 510$ GeV with the STAR Detector at RHIC

We report results on an elastic cross section measurement in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=510$ GeV, obtained with the Roman Pot setup of the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-08 STAR Collaboration , M. I. Abdulhamid , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , E. C. Aschenauer , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , V. Bairathi , J. G. Ball Cap , K. Barish , R. Bellwied , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , S. R. Bhosale , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , J. D. Brandenburg , C. Broodo , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , B. K. Chan , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. Chen , J. H. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , S. Choudhury , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , M. Csanád , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , I. M. Deppner , A. Dhamija , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , C. Fu , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , T. Gao , F. Geurts , N. Ghimire , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamed , Y. Han , S. Harabasz , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , W. He , X. H. He , Y. He , N. Herrmann , L. Holub , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , T. J. Humanic , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , A. Jentsch , Y. Ji , J. Jia , C. Jin , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Khanal , Y. V. Khyzhniak , D. P. Kikoła , D. Kincses , I. Kisel , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , H. S. Ko , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , N. Lewis , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , Y. Liang , R. Licenik , T. Lin , Y. Lin , M. A. Lisa , C. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , O. Lomicky , R. S. Longacre , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , J. Luo , X. F. Luo , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , D. Mallick , R. Manikandhan , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , G. McNamara , O. Mezhanska , K. Mi , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , M. I. Nagy , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , R. Pak , S. Pal , A. Pandav , T. Pani , A. Paul , B. Pawlik , D. Pawlowska , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , B. R. Pokhrel , M. Posik , T. Protzman , V. Prozorova , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , A. Rana , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , H. G. Ritter , C. W. Robertson , M. Robotkova , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , P. Roy Chowdhury , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , S. Sato , B. C. Schaefer , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , F-J. Seck , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , P. V. Shanmuganathan , T. Shao , M. Sharma , N. Sharma , R. Sharma , S. R. Sharma , A. I. Sheikh , D. Shen , D. Y. Shen , K. Shen , S. S. Shi , Y. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stefaniak , D. J. Stewart , B. Stringfellow , Y. Su , A. A. P. Suaide , M. Sumbera , C. Sun , X. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , Z. W. Sweger , A. C. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , S. Trentalange , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , T. Truhlar , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , I. Upsal , G. Van Buren , J. Vanek , I. Vassiliev , V. Verkest , F. Videbæk , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , K. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , D. Wielanek , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , J. Wu , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , B. Xi , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , G. Yan , Z. Yan , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , Y. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , M. Zhao , J. Zhou , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Recent Spin Results from STAR

In Run 8 at RHIC, STAR significantly enhanced its forward acceptance relative to previous years with the commissioning of a new detector, the Forward Meson Spectrometer (FMS). The large geometrical acceptance of the FMS allows us to extend…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Andrew Gordon

A Proposed Forward Silicon Tracker for the Future Electron-Ion Collider and Associated Physics Studies

The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will explore several fundamental questions in a broad Bjorken-x ($x_{BJ}$) and $Q^{2}$ phase space. Heavy flavor and jet products are ideal probes to precisely study the tomography of nucleon/nuclei…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-09-08 Cheuk-Ping Wong , Xuan Li , Melynda Brooks , Matthew J. Durham , Ming Xiong Liu , Astrid Morreale , Cesar da Silva , Walter E. Sondheim

Constraining the quark and gluon helicity at STAR

How quarks and gluons conspire to provide the total spin of proton is a long-standing puzzle in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The unique capability of RHIC, that can provide longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions at both $\sqrt{s} = 200$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-26 Ting Lin

Upsilon cross section in p+p collisions at STAR

The main focus of the heavy flavor program at RHIC is to investigate the properties of the dense matter produced in heavy-ion collisions by studying its effect on open heavy flavor and quarkonia production. This in turn requires a detailed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Pibero Djawotho

Performance evaluation of a GEM-based readout module for the ILC TPC with a large aperture GEM-like gating device by a beam test

A high momentum resolution is required for the precision measurement of Higgs boson at the International Linear Collider (ILC) using the recoil mass technique. The International Large Detector (ILD) is designed to meet this requirement by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-28 Yumi Aoki

Double-GEM based thermal neutron detector prototype

The Helium-3 shortage and the growing interest in neutron science constitute a driving factor in developing new neutron detection technologies. In this work, we report the development of a double-GEM detector prototype that uses a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-15 L. A. Serra Filho , R. Felix dos Santos , G. G. A. de Souza , M. M. M. Paulino , F. A. Souza , M. Moralles , H. Natal da Luz , M. Bregant , M. G. Munhoz , Chung-Chuan Lai , Carina Höglund , Per-Olof Svensson , Linda Robinson , Richard Hall-Wilton

Study on the novel neutron-to-proton concept for improving the detection efficiency of triple GEM based fast neutron detector

A high-efficiency fast neutron detector prototype based on a triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector, which coupled with a novel multi-layered High-Density PolyEthylene (HDPE) as a neutron-to-proton converter for improving the neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Xiao-Dong Wang , He-Run Yang , Zhong-Guo Ren , Jun-Wei Zhang , Lei Yang , Chun-Hui Zhang , Ri-Ba-La Ha , Lv-Xing An

The GMT detector alignment in the STAR experiment

The Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR) uses the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to perform tracking and particle identification. In order to improve the corrections (such as space charge) and monitor non-static distortions of the TPC,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-12 N Ermakov

GEM Foil Quality Assurance For The ALICE TPC Upgrade

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is dedicated to heavy ion physics to explore the structure of strongly interacting matter. The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of ALICE is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Erik Brücken , Timo Hildén

Identified particle production and freeze-out properties in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC Beam Energy Scan program

The first phase of Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) was started in the year 2010 with the aim to study the several aspects of the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram. The Solenoidal Tracker…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-04-07 Sabita Das

Letter of intent; Precise measurements of very forward particle production at RHIC

In this paper, we propose an experiment for the precise measurements of very forward particle production at RHIC. The proposal is to install a LHCf-like calorimeter in the ZDC installation slot at one of the RHIC interaction points. By…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-01-07 Y. Itow , H. Menjo , G. Mitsuka , T. Sako , K. Kasahara , T. Suzuki , S. Torii , O. Adriani , A. Tricomi , Y. Goto , K. Tanida

Local Polarimetry for Proton Beams with the STAR Beam Beam Counters

STAR collected data in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV with transverse and longitudinal beam polarizations during the 2003 running period at RHIC. We present preliminary results on single transverse spin asymmetries A_N in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Kiryluk

From Elastic Scattering to Central Exclusive Production: Physics with Forward Protons at RHIC

We describe a physics program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with tagged forward protons. The program started with the proton-proton elastic scattering experiment (PP2PP), for which a set of Roman Pot stations was build. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-05-05 Wlodek Guryn

Stability study of GEM chamber using radioactive source

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) is a cutting edge Micro Pattern Gaseous detector (MPGD) technology suitable as tracking device in high rate Heavy-Ion (HI) experiments for their good spatial resolution and most importantly high rate handling…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-07 S. Mandal , S. Gope , S. Das , S. Biswas