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The search for a possible critical point in the QCD phase diagram is ongoing in heavy ion collision experiments at RHIC which scan the phase diagram by scanning the beam energy; a coming upgrade will increase the luminosity and extend the…

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Constraining Sea Quark Distributions Through $W^{\pm}$ Cross Section Ratios Measured at STAR

Over the past several years the STAR experiment at RHIC has been contributing to our understanding of the proton structure. Through its instrumentation, STAR is well equipped to measure $W \rightarrow \nu + e$ in $\sqrt{s}$ = 500/510 GeV…

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Physics Program for the STAR/CBM eTOF Upgrade

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STAR's Measurement of Energy and System Size Dependence of K/$\pi$ Fluctuations at RHIC

Strangeness enhancement has been predicted to be one of the signatures of the formation of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) and event-by-event fluctuations of strangeness may reveal the nature of such a phase transition. We report results for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Zubayer Ahammed

Jet quenching: RHIC results and phenomenology

I review the main experimental results on jet physics in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions as studied via inclusive leading hadron spectra and di-hadron correlations at high transverse momentum. In central Au+Au at RHIC (sqrt(s_NN) =…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 David d'Enterria

Recent STAR results and future prospects of $W^{\pm}$ boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory is providing fundamental measurements in high-energy polarized $\vec{p}+\vec{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200-500\,$GeV to deepen our understanding…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-12-24 Bernd Surrow

The PHENIX Potential in the Search for the QCD Critical Point

With the measurement of several observables at SPS energies that demonstrate non-monotonic behavior as a function of centrality and $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$, there is growing interest in pursuing a scan of relativistic heavy ion collisions at low…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 J. T. Mitchell

Quarkonia Measurements with STAR

We report results on quarkonium production from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). J/psi spectra in p+p and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV with transverse momenta in the range of 0.5-14 GeV/c and 5-8…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-22 Zhangbu Xu , Thomas Ullrich

Harmonic decomposition of three-particle azimuthal correlations at RHIC

We present measurements of three-particle correlations for various harmonics in Au+Au collisions at energies ranging from $\sqrt{s_{{\rm NN}}}=7.7$ to 200 GeV using the STAR detector. The quantity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-03 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , 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 , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , X. Bai , V. Bairathi , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , D. Brown , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , X. Chen , 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 , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , L. E. Dunkelberger , 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 , Z. Feng , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , A. Harlenderova , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , S. Horvat , T. Huang , B. Huang , X. Huang , H. Z. 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 , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. Khan , D. P. Kikoła , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , M. Kocmanek , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga , L. Kumar , J. Kvapil , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , X. Li , C. Li , W. Li , Y. Li , J. Lidrych , T. Lin , M. A. Lisa , H. Liu , P. Liu , Y. Liu , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , S. Luo , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , R. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , K. Meehan , J. C. Mei , Z. W. Miller , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , S. Mizuno , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , J. M. Nelson , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , P. Pile , J. Pluta , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , A. M. Poskanzer , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. L. Ray , R. Reed , M. J. Rehbein , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , J. D. Roth , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , M. Saur , J. Schambach , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , B. R. Schweid , J. Seger , M. Sergeeva , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , A. Sharma , M. K. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , Z. Shi , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , S. Singha , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , W. Solyst , L. Song , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , T. Sugiura , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Y. Sun , X. M. Sun , X. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , A. Tawfik , J. Thäder , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , T. Todoroki , 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 , A. N. Vasiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , J. C. Webb , G. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , W. Xie , G. Xie , J. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. F. Xu , Z. Xu , Y. Yang , Q. Yang , C. Yang , S. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , Z. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. B. Zhang , S. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , C. Zhou , X. Zhu , Z. Zhu , M. Zyzak

Recent high-pt results from STAR

We present selected recent results of multi-hadron correlation measurements in azimuth and pseudorapidity at intermediate and high \pt{} in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV, from the STAR experiment at RHIC. At intermediate \pt,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-22 M. van Leeuwen

Studies of three-particle correlations and reaction-plane correlators from STAR

We present STAR measurements of various harmonics of three-particle correlations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. The quantity $\langle\cos(m\phi_1+n\phi_2-(m+n)\phi_3)\rangle$ is measured for inclusive charged particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Prithwish Tribedy

Recent Results from the BRAHMS Experiment

We present recent results obtained by the BRAHMS experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) for the systems of Au + Au and Cu + Cu at \rootsnn{200} and at 62.4 GeV, and p + p at \rootsnn{200}. Nuclear modification factors for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Staszel

Estimating $\eta/s$ of QCD matter at high baryon densities

We report on the application of a cascade + viscous hydro + cascade model for heavy ion collisions in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan range, $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=6.3\dots200$ GeV. By constraining model parameters to reproduce the data we find that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Iu. Karpenko , M. Bleicher , P. Huovinen , H. Petersen