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Production of Protons and Light Nuclei in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 3 GeV with the STAR Detector

We report the systematic measurement of protons and light nuclei production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 3 GeV by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The transverse momentum ($p_{T}$)…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-11-26 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 , Q. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , M. Csanád , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , I. M. Deppner , A. Deshpande , 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 , 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 , J. Kołaś , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. 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 , C. Markert , O. Matonoha , G. McNamara , O. Mezhanska , K. Mi , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , B. Mondal , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , J. Mrazkova , M. I. Nagy , C. J. Naim , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , S. Pal , A. Pandav , A. Panday , A. K. Pandey , T. Pani , A. Paul , B. Pawlik , D. Pawlowska , C. Perkins , J. Pluta , B. R. Pokhrel , M. Posik , T. L. 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 , 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 , Y. Su , M. Sumbera , C. Sun , X. Sun , Y. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , M. Svoboda , 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 , 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 , N. Yu , 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 , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Probing the Quark-Gluon Phase Transition with Correlations and Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment

The measurement of particle correlations and fluctuations has been suggested as a method to search for the existence of a phase transition in relativistic heavy ion collisions. If quark-gluon matter is formed in the collision of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Terence J. Tarnowsky

Recent results of gluon and sea quark polarization measurements in polarized proton-proton collisions at STAR

The STAR experiment at RHIC is carrying out a comprehensive high-energy spin physics program to understand the internal structure and dynamics of the proton in polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV and $\sqrt{s} =…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-09-12 Xuan Li

STAR Results from Au + Au Fixed-Target Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 4.5 GeV

We present results from STAR's first dedicated fixed-target run conducted in 2015 with Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 4.5 GeV. Directed flow of protons and lambdas, elliptic flow of identified hadrons, HBT radii, as well as pion, K^0_s,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Kathryn Meehan

Recent STAR Measurements to Constrain the Polarized Gluon Distribution Function of the Proton

The STAR experiment has been studying the spin structure of the proton, using the unique high-energy polarized proton collider, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The kinematic coverage at STAR allows accessing gluons because…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-09-05 Amilkar Quintero

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

Some Striking New STAR Results

Recent high-statistics Au+Au and Cu+Cu runs at RHIC have provided a wealth of new data that allow STAR to answer several outstanding questions regarding the nature of the hot, dense medium that is created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 C. A. Gagliardi

High-pT Spectra of Charged Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt s_(NN)=9.2 GeV in STAR

The production of hadrons in heavy ions collisions at high $p_T$ provides an important information on mechanism of particle formation and constituent energy loss in medium. Such information is needed for search of a Critical Point and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 M. V. Tokarev

Highlights from the STAR experiment at RHIC

Experiments using heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies aim to explore the QCD phase transition and map out the QCD phase diagram. A wealth of remarkable results in this field have been reported recently, for example the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-03-09 Sonia Kabana

Measurements of jet structure and fragmentation from full jet reconstruction in heavy ion collisions at RHIC

Measurements of inclusive hadron suppression and di-hadron azimuthal correlations have provided important insights into jet quenching in hot QCD matter. However, they do not provide access to the energy of the hard scattering and are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 Elena Bruna

Production and energy loss of strange and heavy quarks

Data taken over the last several years have demonstrated that RHIC has created a hot, dense medium with partonic degrees of freedom. Identified particle spectra at high transverse momentum ($p_T$) and heavy flavor are thought to be well…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 Lijuan Ruan

$J/\psi$ production at low $p_T$ in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV at STAR

The $\jpsi$ $\pt$ spectrum and nuclear modification factor ($\raa$) are reported for $\pt < 5 \ \gevc$ and $|y|<1$ from 0\% to 60\% central Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\snn = 200 \ \gev$ at STAR. A significant suppression of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-09-15 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , C. D. Anson , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , G. S. Averichev , J. Balewski , A. Banerjee , Z. Barnovska , D. R. Beavis , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , H. Bichsel , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , W. Borowski , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , S. G. Brovko , S. Bültmann , I. Bunzarov , T. P. Burton , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , R. Cendejas , M. C. Cervantes , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , S. Chattopadhyay , H. F. Chen , J. H. Chen , L. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Cherney , A. Chikanian , W. Christie , J. Chwastowski , M. J. M. Codrington , R. Corliss , J. G. Cramer , H. J. Crawford , X. Cui , S. Das , A. Davila Leyva , L. C. De Silva , R. R. Debbe , T. G. Dedovich , J. Deng , A. A. Derevschikov , R. Derradi de Souza , S. Dhamija , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , F. Ding , P. Djawotho , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , K. S. Engle , G. Eppley , L. Eun , O. Evdokimov , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , J. Fedorisin , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , C. A. Gagliardi , D. R. Gangadharan , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , S. Gliske , D. Grosnick , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , B. Haag , O. Hajkova , A. Hamed , L-X. Han , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , J. P. Hays-Wehle , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , B. Huang , H. Z. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , H. Jang , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , A. Kesich , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikola , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , J. Konzer , I. Koralt , W. Korsch , L. Kotchenda , P. Kravtsov , K. Krueger , I. Kulakov , L. Kumar , R. A. Kycia , M. A. C. Lamont , J. M. Landgraf , K. D. Landry , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , W. Leight , M. J. LeVine , C. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Z. M. Li , L. M. Lima , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , Y. G. Ma , D. M. M. D. Madagodagettige Don , D. P. Mahapatra , R. Majka , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , T. S. McShane , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. G. Munhoz , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , J. M. Nelson , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , A. Ohlson , V. Okorokov , E. W. Oldag , R. A. N. Oliveira , M. Pachr , B. S. Page , S. K. Pal , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pawlak , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , W. Peryt , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , D. Plyku , N. Poljak , J. Porter , A. M. Poskanzer , N. K. Pruthi , M. Przybycien , P. R. Pujahari , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. Raniwala , S. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , C. K. Riley , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , J. F. Ross , A. Roy , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , A. Sandacz , J. Sandweiss , E. Sangaline , A. Sarkar , J. Schambach , R. P. Scharenberg , A. M. Schmah , W. B. Schmidke , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , P. V. Shanmuganathan , M. Shao , B. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. N. Singaraju , M. J. Skoby , D. Smirnov , N. Smirnov , D. Solanki , P. Sorensen , U. G. deSouza , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , J. R. Stevens , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , A. A. P. Suaide , M. Sumbera , X. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , Z. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , T. J. M. Symons , A. Szanto de Toledo , J. Takahashi , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , M. Tokarev , S. Trentalange , R. E. Tribble , P. Tribedy , B. A. Trzeciak , O. D. Tsai , J. Turnau , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , G. Van Buren , G. van Nieuwenhuizen , J. A. Vanfossen, , R. Varma , G. M. S. Vasconcelos , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , A. Vossen , M. Wada , M. Walker , F. Wang , G. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. Wang , X. L. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , G. Webb , J. C. Webb , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. F. Wu , Z. Xiao , W. Xie , K. Xin , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , Y. Xu , Z. Xu , W. Yan , C. Yang , Y. Yang , Y. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I-K. Yoo , Y. Zawisza , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , Zhang , J. B. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. P. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , X. Zhu , Y. H. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Photoproduction in Ultra-Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions at STAR

We present recent STAR results on photoproduction in ultra-peripheral relativistic heavy ion collisions. In these collisions the impact parameter of the beam particles is larger than the sum of their nuclear radii, so that they interact via…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Boris Grube

Diagnostics of quark-gluon plasma in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions by hard QCD-processes

We analyze the possibilities for studying properties of dense QCD-matter, created in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions, by hard QCD-production processes, so-called "hard" probes -- heavy quarkonia, hard jets, high mass dimuons. Special…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. P. Lokhtin

Spin Physics with the STAR detector

The STAR detector will bring unique capabilities to the study of $\vec{p}+\vec{p}$ collisions up to total center of mass energies of 500 GeV at RHIC. The large acceptance of the time projection chamber and the electromagnetic calorimeter…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Bland

First fragmentation function measurements from full jet reconstruction in heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=200$ GeV by STAR

Measurements of inclusive hadron suppression and di-hadron azimuthal correlations in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions at RHIC have provided important insights into jet quenching in hot QCD matter, but are limited in their sensitivity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Joern Putschke

Recent studies on heavy-flavor femtoscopy in heavy-ion collisions by STAR

At the initial stage of nuclear-nuclear collisions, heavy quarks are generated in hard partonic scatterings. This allows them to participate in the entire evolution of the heavy-ion collisions. During hadronization, different type of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-08 Priyanka Roy Chowdhury

Dielectron measurements in Au+Au collisions at BES-II energies with the STAR experiment

Dielectrons, emitted during the evolution of the hot and dense QCD medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, offer an effective probe of the hot medium properties, as they do not involve strong interactions. The dielectron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-05-13 Chenliang Jin

Jets and jet-like correlations studies from STAR

I present recent results from jets and jet-like correlation measurements from STAR. The pp data are compared to those from Au-Au collisions to attempt to infer information on the medium produced and how hard scattered partons interact with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Helen Caines

Bottomonium production in heavy-ion collisions at STAR

Bottomonium measurements provide unique insight into hot and cold nuclear matter effects present in the medium that is formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Recent STAR results show that in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV central Au+Au…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Robert Vertesi