Related papers: Global Observations from PHOBOS

Identified particle measurements at large transverse momenta in Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC

Differential measurements of various particle species over an extended momentum range provide a sensitive experimental tool for investigation of energy loss mechanisms in the medium created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC. In these…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-07-03 R. S. Hollis

Energy Dependence of Short and Long-Range Multiplicity Correlations in Au+Au Collisions from STAR

A general overview of the measurement of long-range multiplicity correlations measured by the STAR experiment in Au+Au collisions at RHIC is presented. The presence of long-range correlations can provide insight into the early stages, and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Terence Tarnowsky

Scaling of particle production with number of participants in high-energy A+A collisions in the parton-cascade model

In view of the recent WA98 data of pi0 spectra from central Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS, we analyze the production of neutral pions for A+$ collisions across the periodic table at sqrt(s)=17 AGeV and 200 AGeV within the framework of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dinesh K. Srivastava , Klaus Geiger

Non-Monotonicity of Transverse Momentum Correlations in Au + Au Collisions at RHIC

Event-by-event transverse momentum correlations are sensitive to the equation of state of strongly interacting matter and are expected to exhibit anomalous fluctuations in the vicinity of the QCD critical point. We report the first…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-09 STAR Collaboration

Charged particle flow measurement for $|\eta|<5.3$ with the PHOBOS detector

The measurement of elliptic flow for charged particles in Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 130$ GeV using the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is presented. Charge particle distributions over a wide…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-05-28 Inkyu Park , The PHOBOS Collaboration

Beam energy dependence of $d$ and $\bar{d}$ productions in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Light nuclei have much smaller binding energy compared to the temperature of the system created in heavy-ion collisions. Consequently, the distributions of light nuclei can be used to probe the freeze-out properties, such as correlation…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-14 Ning Yu

Energy dependence of directed flow over a wide range of pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

We report on measurements of directed flow as a function of pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at energies of $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} =$ 19.6, 62.4, 130 and 200 GeV as measured by the PHOBOS detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 B. B. Back

System size and energy dependence of high pT hadron production measured with PHENIX experiment at RHIC

PHENIX has measured high transverse momentum (pT) identified hadrons in different collision species and energies in the last five RHIC runs. The systematic study of the high pT hadron production provides an idea on interaction of hard…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Takao Sakaguchi

Elliptic Flow, Initial Eccentricity and Elliptic Flow fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC

We present measurements of elliptic flow and event-by-event fluctuations established by the PHOBOS experiment. Elliptic flow scaled by participant eccentricity is found to be similar for both systems when collisions with the same number of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rachid Nouicer

Production of phi Mesons in Au+Au Collisions at 11.7 A GeV/c

We report on a measurement of phi-meson production in Au+Au collisions at a beam momentum of 11.7 A GeV/c by Experiment E917 at the AGS. The measurement covers the midrapidity region 1.2 < y < 1.6. Transverse-mass spectra and the rapidity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-01-11 E917 Collaboration , B. B. Back , R. R. Betts , J. Chang , W. C. Chang , C. Y. Chi , Y. Y. Chu , J. B. Cumming , J. C. Dunlop , W. Eldredge , S. Y. Fung , R. Ganz , E. Garcia-Solis , A. Gillitzer , G. Heinzelman , W. F. Henning , D. J. Hofman , B. Holzman , J. H. Kang , E. J. Kim , S. Y. Kim , Y. Kwon , D. McLeod , A. C. Mignerey , M. Moulson , V. Nanal , C. A. Ogilvie , R. Pak , A. Ruangma , D. E. Russ , R. K. Seto , P. J. Stanskas , G. S. F. Stephans , H. Wang , F. L. H. Wolfs , A. H. Wuosmaa , H. Xiang , G. H. Xu , H. B. Yao , C. M. Zou

Wounded nucleon model and Deuteron-Gold collisions at RHIC

It is shown that the wounded nucleon model describes very well the recent PHOBOS data on particle production in D-Au collisions at 200 GeV. Contribution to particle production from a single wounded nucleon is determined. A two-component…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bialas , W. Czyz

Measurements of Dielectron Production in Au$+$Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV from the STAR Experiment

We report on measurements of dielectron ($e^+e^-$) production in Au$+$Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV per nucleon-nucleon pair using the STAR detector at RHIC. Systematic measurements of the dielectron yield as a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-02 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 , 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 , T. P. Burton , 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 , S. Gupta , A. 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 , X. Huang , H. Z. 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. Kikola , 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 , C. Li , W. Li , Z. M. Li , Y. Li , X. Li , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , M. Lomnitz , R. S. Longacre , X. Luo , Y. G. Ma , G. L. Ma , L. Ma , R. 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 , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , D. 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 , N. K. Pruthi , 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 , D. Smirnov , N. 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 , X. Sun , Z. Sun , X. M. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , N. Svirida , M. A. Szelezniak , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , T. Tarnowsky , A. N. 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 , Y. Wang , F. Wang , Y. Wang , H. Wang , J. S. 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 , Q. H. Xu , Z. Xu , H. Xu , N. Xu , Y. F. Xu , Q. Yang , Y. Yang , S. Yang , Y. Yang , C. Yang , Z. Ye , P. Yepes , L. Yi , K. Yip , I. -K. Yoo , N. Yu , H. Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , X. P. Zhang , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhang , J. B. Zhang , S. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhong , L. Zhou , X. Zhu , Y. Zoulkarneeva , M. Zyzak

Identified charged hadron production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 54.4 GeV with the STAR detector

We present results on the production of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p$, and $\bar{p}$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 54.4~GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC, at midrapidity ($|y| <$ 0.1). Invariant yields of these particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-05-22 STAR Collaboration , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , G. Agakishiev , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , A. Aitbayev , I. Alekseev , E. Alpatov , A. K. Alshammri , A. Aparin , S. Aslam , J. Atchison , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , X. Bao , P. Barik , K. Barish , S. Behera , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , S. Bhatta , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , C. Broodo , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , J. Ceska , I. Chakaberia , Y. S. Chang , Z. Chang , A. Chatterjee , D. Chen , J. H. Chen , L. Chen , Q. Chen , W. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , Y. Cheng , W. Christie , X. Chu , S. Corey , H. J. Crawford , G. Dale-Gau , A. Das , D. De Souza Lemos , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , A. Deshpande , A. Dhamija , A. Dimri , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , Y. S. El-Feky , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , O. Eyser , B. Fan , Y. Fang , R. Fatemi , S. Fazio , H. Feng , Y. Feng , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , F. A. Flor , B. Fu , C. Fu , T. Fu , T. Gao , Y. Gao , G. Garcia , F. Geurts , A. Gibson , A. Giri , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gu , J. Gu , A. Gupta , A. Hamed , R. J. Hamilton , J. Han , X. Han , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison-Smith , L. B. Havener , X. H. He , Y. He , C. Hu , Q. Hu , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , Y. Huang , M. Isshiki , W. W. Jacobs , A. Jalotra , C. Jena , Y. Ji , J. Jia , X. Jiang , C. Jin , Y. Jin , N. Jindal , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , D. Kalinkin , J. Kang , K. Kang , A. R. Kanuganti , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , M. Kesler , A. Khanal , A. Khanal , J. Kim , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , L. Kochenda , Y. Kong , A. A. Korobitsin , B. Korodi , A. Yu. Kraeva , P. Kravtsov , L. Kumar , M. C. Labonte , R. Lacey , J. M. Landgraf , C. Larson , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , C. Li , D. Li , H-S. Li , H. Li , H. Li , H. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , Z. Li , Z. Li , X. Liang , T. Lin , Y. Lin , C. Liu , G. Liu , H. Liu , L. Liu , L. Liu , Z. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , O. Lomicky , E. M. Loyd , T. Lu , J. Luo , X. F. Luo , V. B. Luong , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , R. Manikandhan , O. Matonoha , K. Menduli , K. Mi , N. G. Minaev , B. Mohanty , B. Mondal , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , M. I. Nagy , C. J. Naim , A. S. Nain , J. D. Nam , M. Nasim , H. Nasrulloh , E. Nedorezov , J. M. Nelson , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , G. Odyniec , A. Ogawa , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , K. Okubo , B. S. Page , M. Pal , S. Pal , A. Pandav , A. Panday , A. K. Pandey , Y. Panebratsev , T. Pani , P. Parfenov , A. Paul , S. Paul , C. Perkins , S. Ping , I. D. Ponce Pinto , M. Posik , E. Pottebaum , A. Povarov , S. Prodhan , T. L. Protzman , N. K. Pruthi , J. Putschke , Y. Qi , Z. Qin , H. Qiu , C. Racz , S. K. Radhakrishnan , A. Rana , R. L. Ray , C. W. Robertson , O. V. Rogachevsky , M. A. Rosales Aguilar , D. Roy , L. Ruan , A. K. Sahoo , N. R. Sahoo , H. Sako , S. Salur , S. S. Sambyal , E. Samigullin , D. T. Samuel , J. K. Sandhu , S. Sato , B. C. Schaefer , N. Schmitz , J. Seger , R. Seto , P. Seyboth , N. Shah , E. Shahaliev , 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. Shi , Y. Shi , Shilpa , E. Shulga , F. Si , J. Singh , S. Singha , P. Sinha , M. J. Skoby , Y. Söhngen , Y. Song , T. D. S. Stanislaus , M. Strikhanov , Y. Su , X. Sun , Y. Sun , B. Surrow , D. N. Svirida , Z. W. Sweger , A. C. Tamis , A. H. Tang , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , T. Tarnowsky , J. H. Thomas , A. Timofeev , D. Tlusty , M. V. Tokarev , D. Torres-Valladares , S. Trentalange , O. D. Tsai , C. Y. Tsang , Z. Tu , J. E. Tyler , T. Ullrich , D. G. Underwood , G. Van Buren , A. N. Vasiliev , F. Videbæk , S. Vokal , S. A. Voloshin , F. Wang , G. Wang , G. Wang , J. S. Wang , J. Wang , K. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , J. C. Webb , P. C. Weidenkaff , G. D. Westfall , H. Wieman , G. Wilks , S. W. Wissink , C. P. Wong , J. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , X. Wu , B. Xi , Y. Xiao , Z. G. Xiao , G. Xie , W. Xie , H. Xu , N. Xu , Q. H. Xu , X. Xu , Y. Xu , Y. 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 , Y. Yu , W. Yuan , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , K. Zhang , L. Zhang , S. Zhang , W. Zhang , X. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , F. Zhao , J. Zhao , S. Zhou , Y. Zhou , C. Zhu , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

Energy and System Size Dependence of Strangeness Production from SPS to RHIC

Strange particle production is an important experimental observable that allows the study of the strongly interacting matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The STAR experiment at RHIC has a unique capability of measuring…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jun Takahashi

Particle production from gluon-nucleon interactions in relativistic heavy ion collisions

We propose a particle production mechanism analogous to the particle photoproduction processes, arising from the gluon-nucleon interactions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The comparison is made on the effect of the gluon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 Yong-Ping Fu , Fei-Jie Huang , Qi-Hui Chen

$\pi/K/p$ production and Cronin effect from p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 200$ GeV from the PHENIX experiment

We present results on identified particle production in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV at mid-rapidity measured by the PHENIX experiment. The centrality and flavor dependence of the Cronin effect in d+Au…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Felix Matathias

Energy and system size dependence of \phi meson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions

We study the beam-energy and system-size dependence of \phi meson production (using the hadronic decay mode \phi -- K+K-) by comparing the new results from Cu+Cu collisions and previously reported Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_NN} = 62.4 and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 STAR Collaboration

Beam energy dependence of pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles produced in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies

Heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN probe matter at extreme conditions of temperature and energy density. Most of the global properties of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-06-22 Sumit Basu , Tapan K. Nayak , Kaustuv Datta

Beam Energy dependence of Light Nuclei Production in Au+Au Collisions

We study the collision energy dependence of (anti-)deuteron and (anti-)triton production in the most central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=$ 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV, using the nucleon coalescence model. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Wenbin Zhao , Chun Shen , Che Ming Ko , Quansheng Liu , Huichao Song

Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Multiplicity in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV

We present results for the charged-particle multiplicity distribution at mid-rapidity in Au - Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV measured with the PHENIX detector at RHIC. For the 5% most central collisions we find $dN_{ch}/d\eta_{|\eta=0}…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 PHENIX Collaboration , K. Adcox