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The results on directed and elliptic flow for Pb + Pb at the full energy of the SPS (158 GeV/A) and from the first year of Au + Au at RHIC (sqrt{s_{_{NN}}=130 GeV) are reviewed. The different experiments agree well and a consistent picture…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Arthur M. Poskanzer

Hard scattering at RHIC: Experimental review

The most significant results on hard scattering processes in Au+Au, p+p, and d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV obtained after 3 years of operation at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are summarized. Hadron production at…

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

Collision Dynamics at RHIC

Measurements of a variety of hadron species in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV by the STAR experiment are used to investigate properties of such collisions. We present a study of particle yields and transverse momentum spectra within the…

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The First 3 Years at RHIC- an Overview

This is an overview of the results from the first 3 years of RHIC experiments. RHIC is a collider built to accelerate nuclei to center of mass energies of 200 GeV per nucleon for the study of QCD in bulk systems. The most important result…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-11-30 Richard Seto

Initial state nuclear effects for jet production measured in $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 200 \mathrm{GeV}$ d+Au collisions by STAR

Full jet reconstruction in heavy-ion collisions is a promising tool for quantitative study of properties of the dense medium produced at RHIC. Measurements of d+Au collisions are important to disentangle initial state nuclear effects from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jan Kapitan

Collision Energy Dependence of $p_{\rm t}$ Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

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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…

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Five Years of Tracking Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC

Five years have passed since the first collisions of Au nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long Island. With nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies of up to sqrt(s_NN)=200GeV…

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First Results from the PHOBOS Experiment at RHIC

PHOBOS is one of four experiments studying Au-Au collisions at RHIC. During the first running period RHIC provided Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 56 GeV and 130 GeV. The data collected during this period allowed us to study the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-28 C. Roland

Jets and Parton Energy Loss at RHIC: Experimental Status

Experimental evidence from RHIC indicates that matter having an energy density far in excess of the value required for the creation of a deconfined phase is produced in ultrarelativistic Au+Au collisions at a center of mass energy of 200…

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Chemical freeze-out temperature in hydrodynamical description of Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

We study the effect of separate chemical and kinetic freeze-outs to the ideal hydrodynamical flow in Au+Au collisions at RHIC (sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV energy). Unlike in earlier studies we explore how these effects can be counteracted by…

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First indication on self-similarity of strangeness production in $Au+Au$ collisions at RHIC: Search for signature of phase transition in nuclear matter

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Hydrodynamical analysis of flow at RHIC

We use a hydrodynamical model to describe the evolution of the collision system at collision energies sqrt{s}=130 and 200 GeV. At lower sqrt{s}=130 GeV energy we compare the results obtained assuming fast or slow thermalization…

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Experimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

We review the most important experimental results from the first three years of nucleus-nucleus collision studies at RHIC, with emphasis on results from the STAR experiment, and we assess their interpretation and comparison to theory. The…

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Production of phi mesons at mid-rapidity in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC

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Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 PHENIX Collaboration , S. S. Adler

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