Related papers: Highlights from BNL and RHIC 2014

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

RHIC physics: short overview

This talk gives a very short overview of some of the important physical phenomena observed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The emphasis is put on the multiplicities, hard probes and the properties of the initial state.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-13 Anna M. Stasto

From the ISR to RHIC--measurements of hard-scattering and jets using inclusive single particle production and 2-particle correlations

Hard scattering in p-p collisions, discovered at the CERN ISR in 1972 by the method of leading particles, proved that the partons of Deeply Inelastic Scattering strongly interacted with each other. Further ISR measurements utilizing…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 M. J. Tannenbaum

Results on High p_T Particle Production from the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

Transverse momentum (p_T) spectra of neutral pions and charged hadrons measured in Au+Au and d+Au collisions at sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC are compared to p+p reference spectra at the same sqrt{s_NN}. In central…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Klaus Reygers

Flow and interferometry results from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{\textit{s}_{NN}}$ = 4.5 GeV

The Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was extended to energies below $\sqrt{\textit{s}_{NN}}$ = 7.7 GeV in 2015 by successful implementation of the fixed-target mode of operation in the STAR…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-03-31 STAR Collaboration , J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , A. Aparin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , F. G. Atetalla , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , K. Barish , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , B. K. Chan , F-H. Chang , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , M. Chevalier , S. Choudhury , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , M. Csanád , M. Daugherity , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , L. Didenko , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. C. Dunlop , T. Edmonds , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , A. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , A. Francisco , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , D. Grosnick , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , S. Harabasz , J. W. Harris , S. He , W. He , X. H. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , E. Hoffman , L. Holub , Y. Hong , S. Horvat , Y. Hu , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , T. J. Humanic , P. Huo , G. Igo , D. Isenhower , W. W. Jacobs , C. Jena , A. Jentsch , Y. JI , J. Jia , K. Jiang , S. Jowzaee , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , M. L. Kabir , S. Kagamaster , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , M. Kelsey , Y. V. Khyzhniak , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , B. Kimelman , D. Kincses , T. A. Kinghorn , I. Kisel , A. Kiselev , M. Kocan , L. Kochenda , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kozyra , L. Kramarik , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , N. Kulathunga Mudiyanselage , L. Kumar , R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , S. Lan , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , C. Li , W. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Y. Liang , R. Licenik , T. Lin , Y. Lin , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , H. Liu , P. Liu , P. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , R. S. Longacre , N. S. Lukow , S. Luo , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , J. A. Mazer , K. Meehan , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , Z. Moravcova , D. A. Morozov , M. Nagy , J. D. Nam , Md. Nasim , K. Nayak , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , A. S. Nunes , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , B. S. Page , R. Pak , A. Pandav , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , D. Pawlowska , H. Pei , C. Perkins , L. Pinsky , R. L. Pintér , J. Pluta , J. Porter , M. Posik , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , 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 , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , S. Sato , 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 , F. Shen , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , J. Singh , S. Singha , N. Smirnov , W. Solyst , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stefaniak , D. J. Stewart , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , X. M. Sun , X. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , P. Szymanski , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , C. A. Tomkiel , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , S. K. Tripathy , O. D. Tsai , Z. 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 , F. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , P. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. F. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , Z. Xu , C. Yang , Q. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Yang , Z. Ye , Z. Ye , L. Yi , K. Yip , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , C. Zhou , X. Zhu , Z. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Recent STAR results in high-energy polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory is carrying out a spin physics program in high-energy polarized $\vec{p}+\vec{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200-500\,$GeV to gain a deeper insight…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Bernd Surrow

QCD hard scattering results from PHENIX at RHIC

Data on hadron production at high transverse momentum ($p_T>$ 2 GeV/$c$) in p+p, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}$ = 200 GeV from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC are reviewed. The single inclusive spectrum of light hadrons produced…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 David d'Enterria

Gluons and the quark sea at high energies: distributions, polarization, tomography

This report is based on a ten-week program on "Gluons and the quark sea at high-energies", which took place at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle in Fall 2010. The principal aim of the program was to develop and sharpen the science…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 D. Boer , M. Diehl , R. Milner , R. Venugopalan , W. Vogelsang , A. Accardi , E. Aschenauer , M. Burkardt , R. Ent , V. Guzey , D. Hasch , K. Kumar , M. A. C. Lamont , Y. Li , W. J. Marciano , C. Marquet , F. Sabatie , M. Stratmann , F. Yuan , S. Abeyratne , S. Ahmed , C. Aidala , S. Alekhin , M. Anselmino , H. Avakian , A. Bacchetta , J. Bartels , H. BC , J. Beebe-Wang , S. Belomestnykh , I. Ben-Zvi , G. Beuf , J. Blumlein , M . Blaskiewicz , A. Bogacz , S. J. Brodsky , T. Burton , R. Calaga , X. Chang , I. O. Cherednikov , P. Chevtsov , G. A. Chirilli , C. Ciofi degli Atti , I. C. Cloet , A. Cooper-Sarkar , R. Debbe , Ya. Derbenev , A. Deshpande , F. Dominguez , A. Dumitru , R. Dupre , B. Erdelyi , C. Faroughy , S. Fazio , A. Fedotov , J. R. Forshaw , R. Geraud , K. Gallmeister , L. Gamberg , J. -H. Gao , D. Gassner , F. Gelis , G. P. Gilfoyle , G. Goldstein , K. Golec-Biernat , V. P. Goncalves , M. Gonderinger , M. Guzzi , P. Hagler , H. Hahn , L. Hammons , Y. Hao , P. He , T. Horn , W. A. Horowitz , M. Huang , A. Hutton , B. Jager , W. Jackson , A. Jain , E. C. Johnson , Z. -B. Kang , L. P. Kaptari , D. Kayran , J. Kewisch , Y. Koike , A. Kondratenko , B. Z. Kopeliovich , Y. V. Kovchegov , G. Krafft , P. Kroll , S. Kumano , K. Kumericki , T. Lappi , T. Lautenschlager , R. Li , Z. -T. Liang , V. N. Litvinenko , S. Liuti , Y. Luo , D. Muller , G. Mahler , A. Majumder , S. Manikonda , F. Marhauser , G. McIntyre , M. Meskauskas , W. Meng , A. Metz , C. B. Mezzetti , G. A. Miller , M. Minty , S. -O. Moch , V. Morozov , U. Mosel , L. Motyka , H. Moutarde , P. J. Mulders , B. Musch , P. Nadel-Turonski , P. Nadolsky , F. Olness , P. N. Ostrumov , B. Parker , B. Pasquini , K. Passek-Kumericki , A. Pikin , F. Pilat , B. Pire , H. Pirner , C. Pisano , E. Pozdeyev , A. Prokudin , V. Ptitsyn , X. Qian , J. -W. Qiu , M. Radici , A. Radyushkin , T. Rao , R. Rimmer , F. Ringer , S. Riordan , T. Rogers , J. Rojo , T. Roser , R. Sandapen , R. Sassot , T. Satogata , H. Sayed , A. Schafer , G. Schnell , P. Schweitzer , B. Sheehy , J. Skaritka , G. Soyez , M. Spata , H. Spiesberger , A. M. Stasto , N. G. Stefanis , M. Strikman , M. Sullivan , L. Szymanowski , K. Tanaka , S. Taneja , S. Tepikian , B. Terzic , Y. Than , T. Toll , D. Trbojevic , E. Tsentalovich , N. Tsoupas , K. Tuchin , J. Tuozzolo , T. Ullrich , A. Vossen , S. Wallon , G. Wang , H. Wang , X. -N. Wang , S. Webb , C. Weiss , Q. Wu , B. -W. Xiao , W. Xu , B. Yunn , A. Zelenski , Y. Zhang , J. Zhou , P. Zurita

Strangeness and bulk freeze-out properties at RHIC

Identified charged kaon, pion, and proton spectra and ratios from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 and 62.4 GeV Cu+Cu collisions are studied with a hydro-motivated blast-wave and a statistical model framework in order to explore the strangeness production…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Aneta Iordanova

Heavy Ions: Results from the Large Hadron Collider

On November 8, 2010 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN collided first stable beams of heavy ions (Pb on Pb) at center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV/nucleon. The LHC worked exceedingly well during its one month of operation with heavy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Tapan K. Nayak

Identified Particle Production from the BES at RHIC

The RHIC Beam Energy Scan focuses on the study of the QCD phase diagram --- temperature ($T$) vs. baryon chemical potential ($\mu_B$). The aim is to verify some predictions from QCD: that a cross-over occurs at $\mu_B$ = 0, that there…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-09-27 Lokesh Kumar

Breaking of the number-of-constituent-quark scaling for identified-particle elliptic flow as a signal of phase change in low-energy data taken at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

We argue that measurements of identified-particle elliptic flow in a wide energy range could shed light on the possible phase change in high-energy heavy ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). When the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 J. Tian , J. H. Chen , Y. G. Ma , X. Z. Cai , F. Jin , G. L. Ma , S. Zhang , C. Zhong

Bulk Observables in pp, dA and AA Collisions at RHIC

Results on charged particle production in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies (sqrt(s_NN) = 19.6 to 200 GeV) are presented. The data exhibit remarkable, and simple, scaling behaviors, the most prominent of which are discussed.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 David J. Hofman

RHIC $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV hadron yields and the isospin dependent equation of state

The statistical hadronization model has been successful in extracting information at chemical freeze-out in heavy-ion collisions. At RHIC, with a collision energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV, many different ion species have been used for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Feyisola Nana , Jordi Salinas San Martín , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

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

Ultra-peripheral Collisions at RHIC: An Experimental Overview

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) of ions allow us to study photonuclear and two-photon interactions at energies above those available at fixed target accelerators. For heavy ions, the couplings are large enough so that multi-photon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-02-25 Spencer R. Klein

Directed and elliptic flow of light nuclei and hypernuclei in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=3$ GeV: Coalescence vs. Statistical Fragmentation

The harmonic flow coefficients of light nuclei and hypernuclei in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=3$ GeV are investigated using the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics transport model. For the Equation-of-State we employ…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-25 Tom Reichert , Manjunath Omana Kuttan , Apiwit Kittiratpattana , Nihal Buyukcizmeci , Alexander Botvina , Jan Steinheimer , Marcus Bleicher

Implementation of ACTS into sPHENIX track reconstruction

sPHENIX is a high energy nuclear physics experiment under construction at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The primary physics goals of sPHENIX are to study the quark-gluon-plasma, as well as the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-13 Joseph D. Osborn , Anthony D. Frawley , Jin Huang , Sookhyun Lee , Hugo Pereira Da Costa , Michael Peters , Chris Pinkenburg , Christof Roland , Haiwang Yu

Evaluating Results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider with Perturbative QCD and Hydrodynamics

We review the basic concepts of perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and relativistic hydrodynamics, and their applications to hadron production in high energy nuclear collisions. We discuss results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Rainer J. Fries , Chiho Nonaka