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Understanding the Particle Production Mechanism with Correlation Studies Using Long and Short Range Correlations

Long range forward-backward multiplicity correlations have been measured with the STAR detector for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV . Strong long range correlations are observed in central Au+Au collisions. Based on the Dual…

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Centrality dependence of charged hadron transverse momentum spectra in Au+Au collisions from sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 to 200 GeV

We have measured transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 GeV. The spectra are presented for transverse momenta 0.25 < p_T< 4.5 GeV/c, in a pseudo-rapidity range of 0.2 < eta <…

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Thermal Equilibrium and Non-uniform Longitudinal Flow in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

A model with non-uniform flow in the longitudinal direction is proposed for the relativistic heavy-ion collisions and compared with the 14.6 A GeV/c Si-Al and 10.8 A GeV/c Au-Au collision data. The stronger influence of transparency on the…

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Azimuthal di-hadron correlations in d+Au and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV from STAR

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…

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Didenko , P. Djawotho , S. M. Dogra , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , J. C. Dunlop , M. R. Dutta Mazumdar , L. G. Efimov , E. Elhalhuli , M. Elnimr , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , B. Erazmus , M. Estienne , L. Eun , O. Evdokimov , P. Fachini , R. Fatemi , J. Fedorisin , R. G. Fersch , P. Filip , E. Finch , V. Fine , Y. Fisyak , C. A. Gagliardi , D. R. Gangadharan , M. S. Ganti , E. J. Garcia-Solis , A. Geromitsos , F. Geurts , V. Ghazikhanian , P. Ghosh , Y. N. Gorbunov , A. Gordon , O. Grebenyuk , D. Grosnick , S. M. Guertin , A. Gupta , N. Gupta , W. Guryn , B. Haag , A. Hamed , L-X. Han , J. W. Harris , J. P. Hays-Wehle , M. Heinz , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , E. Hjort , A. M. Hoffman , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , B. Huang , H. Z. Huang , T. J. Humanic , L. Huo , G. Igo , P. Jacobs , W. W. Jacobs , C. Jena , F. Jin , C. L. Jones , P. G. Jones , J. Joseph , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , K. Kajimoto , K. Kang , J. Kapitan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , D. 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Witt , Y. F. Wu , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , W. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , L. Xue , Y. Yang , P. Yepes , K. Yip , I-K. Yoo , Q. Yue , M. Zawisza , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zhan , J. B. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. M. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. P. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , J. Zhou , W. Zhou , X. Zhu , Y. H. Zhu , R. Zoulkarneev , Y. Zoulkarneeva

Probing QCD critical fluctuations from intermittency analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

It is shown that intermittency, a self-similar correlation with respect to the size of the phase space volume, is sensitive to critical density fluctuations of baryon numbers in a system belonging to the three-dimensional (3D) Ising…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-06 Jin Wu , Yufu Lin , Yuanfang Wu , Zhiming Li