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According to perturbative quantum chromodynamic calculations, in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $~200 and 510 GeV studied at RHIC, jet production in mid-pseudorapidity, $|\eta| <$ 1, is dominated by quark-gluon and gluon-gluon scattering…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-14 Zilong Chang

The production of jets from polarized proton+proton collisions at STAR is dominated by quark-gluon and gluon-gluon scattering. The dijet double spin asymmetry (A\tsub{LL}) is sensitive to the polarized gluon distribution ($\Delta g(x)$).…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-30 Daniel L. Olvitt

The recent results on net-proton and net-charge multiplicity fluctuations from the beam energy scan program at RHIC have drawn much attention to explore the critical point in the QCD phase diagram. Experimentally measured protons contain…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-14 D. K. Mishra , P. Garg

Recent experimental results obtained in STAR experiment at the Relativistic heavy-ion collider (RHIC) with ion beams will be discussed. Investigations of different nuclear collisions in some recent years focus on two main tasks, namely,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-10-30 V. A. Okorokov

We present measurements of cumulants of event-by-event net-proton distribution at mid-rapidity and their ratios up to the sixth order as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in Zr+Zr and Ru+Ru(isobars) collisions at a nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-10 The STAR Collaboration

How quarks and gluons conspire to provide the total spin of proton is a long-standing puzzle in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The unique capability of RHIC, that can provide longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions at both $\sqrt{s} = 200$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-26 Ting Lin

The fluctuations of proton multiplicity in heavy-ion collisions are the key observables in the search for the QCD critical point. In this work we present an approach to constraining the cumulants of proton number based on the analytical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-26 Gokce Basar , Maneesha Pradeep , Mikhail Stephanov

Measured multiplicity distributions of primary charged particles produced in the forward rapidity region of the $proton-proton$ ($pp$) collisions at the centre-of-mass energy, $\sqrt {s}$ = 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-28 Premomoy Ghosh , Sanjib Muhuri

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

High moments of conserved quantities such as net-baryon, net-electric charge, and net-strangeness in heavy-ion collisions are sensitive to fluctuations caused by the QCD critical point (CP). The event-by-event analysis of high moments of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-06 Xin Zhang , Yu Zhang , Xiaofeng Luo , Nu Xu

We studied the acceptance dependence of proton cumulants (up to fourth order) and correlation functions in 0--5\% most central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\text{NN}}$=7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV from UrQMD model. We found…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-11-21 Shu He , Xiaofeng Luo

We reexamine a recent result within a nonrelativistic constituent quark model (NRCQM) which maintains that the uuds\bar s component in the proton has its uuds subsystem in P state, with its \bar s in S state (configuration I). When the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-02-05 Alvin Kiswandhi , Hao-Chun Lee , Shin Nan Yang

Results from inclusive and differential measurements of the production cross sections for top quarks in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV are compared to predictions at next-to-leading and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Sebastian Naumann-Emme

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

The search for remnants of the QCD chiral critical point is a central objective of current and future high-energy ion collision experiments. Previous studies suggest that a scaling law relating higher-order factorial moments of hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Athanasios Brofas , Manolis Zampetakis , Fotios Diakonos

The RHIC facility at BNL will be operating soon, part of the year, as a polarized proton-proton collider. This will allow the undertaking of a vast spin physics programme, mainly by the two large detectors PHENIX and STAR. We review some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Soffer

With large volumes of data available at LHC, it has possible to study the multiplicity distributions. It is interesting as well to check how well event generators can describes the properties and the behavior of multi-particle production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-28 Valeria Zelina Reyna Ortiz , Maciej Rybczynski , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

Identified hadron spectra and ratios provide a unique tool to study the bulk particle production in heavy-ion collisions and explore the QCD phase diagram. In these proceedings we present the analysis of charged pion, kaon and (anti)proton…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Aneta Iordanova

The Tsallis distribution has been used recently to fit the transverse momentum distributions of identified particles by the STAR and PHENIX collaborations at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and by the ALICE and CMS collaborations at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Cleymans , D. Worku

Fluctuations of conserved quantities such as baryon number (B), electric charge number (Q), and strangeness number (S), are sensitive to the correlation length and can be used to probe non-gaussian fluctuations near the critical point.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-08 Ji Xu