Related papers: Highlights from the STAR experiment

B physics at STAR

Review of search for heavy flavor (c,b quarks) production in leptonic decay channels in Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_NN}=200 GeV at the STAR Experiment at RHIC.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Jens Soeren Lange

Measurements of $W$ and $Z/\gamma^*$ cross sections and their ratios in $pp$ collisions at STAR

While the unpolarized parton distribution functions of the valence quarks ($d$ and $u$) are well determined from DIS experiments, the sea quark counterparts, $\bar{d}$ and $\bar{u}$, are much less constrained, in particular, near the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-15 Jae Nam

Jet studies in 200 GeV p+p and d+Au collisions from the STAR experiment at RHIC

Recent progress in full jet reconstruction in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC makes it a promising tool for the quantitative study of the QCD at high energy density. Measurements in d+Au collisions are important to disentangle initial state…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jan Kapitan

Neutron stars and Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense Matter

Neutron stars provide a natural laboratory for studying the properties of dense nuclear matter under extreme conditions. In this proceeding, we review our current understanding of dense isospin symmetric and asymmetric matter and neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Rajesh Kumar , Veronica Dexheimer , Johannes Jahan

Estimation of Stopped Protons at Energies Relevant for a Beam Energy Scan at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

The recent net-proton fluctuation results of the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC) experiment from beam energy scan (BES) program at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have drawn much attention to exploring the QCD critical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-04-18 Dhananjaya Thakur , Sunil Jakhar , Prakhar Garg , Raghunath Sahoo

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

The Forward GEM Tracker of STAR at RHIC

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is in the process of designing and constructing a forward tracking system based on triple GEM technology. This upgrade is necessary to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 F. Simon , J. Balewski , R. Fatemi , D. Hasell , J. Kelsey , R. Majka , B. Page , M. Plesko , D. Underwood , N. Smirnov , J. Sowinski , H. Spinka , B. Surrow , G. Visser

Heavy-Ion Collisions - Examining the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC

The main goals of relativistic heavy-ion experiments is to study the properties of QCD matter under extreme temperatures and densities. The focus of this talk is the studies that are underway at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC),…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 Helen Caines

Recent Highlights from the STAR Experiment

We summarize the latest correlation and fluctuation measurements derived from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan-II (BES-II) data, collected by the STAR experiment. We will focus on the recent results of higher-order net-proton cumulants…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-13 Rutik Manikandhan

Probing Parton Dynamics of QCD Matter with $\Omega$ and $\phi$ Production

We present measurements of $\Omega$ and $\phi$ production at mid-rapidity from Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-03-02 STAR Collaboration , L. Adamczyk , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , J. Alford , A. Aparin , D. Arkhipkin , E. C. Aschenauer , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , A. Banerjee , R. Bellwied , A. Bhasin , A. K. Bhati , P. Bhattarai , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , L. C. Bland , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. Bouchet , A. V. Brandin , I. Bunzarov , J. Butterworth , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , J. M. Campbell , D. Cebra , M. C. Cervantes , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , Z. Chang , S. Chattopadhyay , 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 , B. di Ruzza , L. Didenko , C. Dilks , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , J. E. Draper , C. M. Du , L. E. Dunkelberger , J. C. Dunlop , L. G. Efimov , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , R. Esha , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , Z. Feng , P. Filip , Y. Fisyak , C. E. Flores , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , D. Garand , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , M. Girard , L. Greiner , D. Grosnick , D. S. Gunarathne , Y. Guo , A. Gupta , S. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. Hamad , A. Hamed , R. Haque , J. W. Harris , L. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , A. Hirsch , G. W. Hoffmann , D. J. Hofman , S. Horvat , B. Huang , H. Z. Huang , X. Huang , P. Huck , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , W. W. Jacobs , H. Jang , K. Jiang , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , Z. H. Khan , D. P. Kikoła , I. Kisel , A. Kisiel , L. Kochenda , D. D. Koetke , T. Kollegger , L. K. Kosarzewski , A. F. Kraishan , 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 , X. Li , Z. M. Li , Y. Li , W. Li , X. Li , C. Li , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , G. L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , L. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Majka , A. Manion , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. Masui , H. S. Matis , D. McDonald , K. Meehan , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , D. Mishra , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. A. Morozov , M. K. Mustafa , B. K. Nandi , Md. Nasim , T. K. Nayak , G. Nigmatkulov , L. V. Nogach , S. Y. Noh , J. Novak , S. B. Nurushev , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , K. Oh , V. Okorokov , D. Olvitt , B. S. Page , R. Pak , Y. X. Pan , Y. Pandit , Y. Panebratsev , B. Pawlik , H. Pei , C. Perkins , A. Peterson , P. Pile , M. Planinic , J. Pluta , N. Poljak , K. Poniatowska , J. Porter , M. Posik , A. M. Poskanzer , J. Putschke , H. Qiu , A. Quintero , S. Ramachandran , R. Raniwala , S. Raniwala , R. L. Ray , H. G. Ritter , J. B. Roberts , O. V. Rogachevskiy , J. L. Romero , A. Roy , L. Ruan , J. Rusnak , O. Rusnakova , N. R. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , I. Sakrejda , S. Salur , J. Sandweiss , 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 , M. K. Sharma , B. Sharma , W. Q. Shen , S. S. Shi , Q. Y. Shou , E. P. Sichtermann , R. Sikora , M. Simko , M. J. Skoby , N. Smirnov , D. Smirnov , L. Song , P. Sorensen , H. M. Spinka , B. Srivastava , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Stepanov , R. Stock , M. Strikhanov , B. Stringfellow , M. Sumbera , B. Summa , Z. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , X. Sun , B. Surrow , N. Svirida , M. A. Szelezniak , Z. Tang , A. H. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , A. Tawfik , J. H. Thomas , A. R. Timmins , D. Tlusty , 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 , M. Vandenbroucke , R. Varma , A. N. Vasiliev , R. Vertesi , F. Videbæk , Y. P. Viyogi , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , A. Vossen , G. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , F. Wang , J. C. Webb , G. Webb , L. Wen , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , S. W. Wissink , R. Witt , Y. F. Wu , Z. G. Xiao , W. Xie , K. Xin , Y. F. Xu , Q. H. Xu , H. Xu , N. Xu , Z. Xu , Y. Yang , C. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , Q. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , J. B. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , X. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

First results from RHIC: What are they telling us?

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory is the first accelerator specifically constructed for the study of very hot and dense nuclear matter. At sufficiently high temperature, nuclear matter is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-12-23 J. L. Nagle

Recent results on event-by-event fluctuations from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program in the STAR experiment

Event-by-event fluctuations of global observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are studied as probes for the QCD phase transition and as tools to search for critical phenomena near the phase boundary. Dynamical fluctuations in mean…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Nihar Ranjan Sahoo

Exotic particle searches with STAR at RHIC

We present preliminary results of the STAR experiment at RHIC on exotic particle searches in minimum bias Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. We observe a narrow peak at 1734 $\pm$ 0.5 $\pm$ 5 MeV in the $\Lambda K^0_s$ invariant…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Sonia Kabana

$J/\psi$ and $\Upsilon$ measurements in STAR

Heavy-quarkonium states are expected to evidenciate the deconfinement of the nuclear matter into a Quark-Gluon Plasma in heavy-ion collisions. To strive conclusive information from quarkonium production modification in A+A collisions,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Mauro R. Cosentino

Two-Photon Physics in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at RHIC

Ultra-relativistic heavy-ions carry strong electromagnetic and nuclear fields. Interactions between these fields in peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions can probe many interesting physics topics. This presentation will focus on coherent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Joakim Nystrand , Spencer Klein , the STAR Collaboration

Constraints on neutron skin thickness and nuclear deformations using relativistic heavy-ion collisions from STAR

In these proceedings, we present the measurements of neutron skin thickness and nuclear deformation using isobar $^{96}_{44}$Ru+$^{96}_{44}$Ru and $^{96}_{40}$Zr+$^{96}_{40}$Zr collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}=200$ GeV by the STAR…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-15 Haojie Xu

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

Neutral meson production in d+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV in STAR

The high centre-of-mass energy of 200 GeV available at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven opens up the hard scattering regime in heavy-ion collisions. Particles at large transverse momentum originate from the early…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-17 Oleksandr Grebenyuk

Strangeness Production in Star at Rhic

Strangeness study is one of the major goal of the STAR experiment at RHIC. Results presented here have been obtained from analyses restricted to the mid-rapidity region of Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 130 GeV. An onset of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Christelle roy , STAR Collaboration

Nuclear system size scan for freeze-out properties in relativistic heavy-ion collisions by using a multiphase transport model

A system size scan program was recently proposed for the STAR experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider(RHIC). In this study, we employ a multiphase transport (AMPT) model for considering the bulk properties at the freeze-out stage…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Dong-Fang Wang , Song Zhang , Yu-Gang Ma