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We present results on spectra of pions, kaons and (anti)protons from a study of heavy ion collisions using the perturbative QCD + saturation model to calculate the production of initial (transverse) energy and baryon number followed by a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 K. J. Eskola , H. Niemi , P. V. Ruuskanen , S. S. Rasanen

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An abundance of the strangeness that can be induced in a thermalized quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is considered as a signal of the QGP phase appearing in the intermediate state of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. As a quantitative…

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Measurements of identified particles from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$ GeV are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on nuclear modification, baryon-to-meson ratios, and elliptic flow at intermediate transverse momentum ($1.5 < p_T <…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul R. Sorensen

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Diagonal and off-diagonal susceptibilities of conserved quantities in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

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Intensity interferometry of thermal photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions

Intensity interferometry of thermal photons, having transverse momenta $k_T \approx $ 0.1 -- 2.0 GeV, produced in relativistic collision of heavy nuclei is studied. It is seen to provide an accurate information about the temporal and…

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Systematic Study of the Kaon to Pion Multiplicity Ratios in Heavy-Ion Collisions

We present a systematic study of the kaon to pion multiplicity ratios (K+/pi+ and K-/pi-) in heavy-ion collisions from AGS to RHIC energy using the Relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (RQMD) model. The model satisfactorily describes the…

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Observation of the electromagnetic field effect via charge-dependent directed flow in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

The deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions enables the exploration of the fundamental properties of matter under extreme conditions. Non-central collisions can produce strong magnetic fields on the…

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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…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 STAR Collaboration , J. Adams

Heavy-Quark Kinetics at RHIC and LHC

In ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions heavy quarks are produced out of thermal equilibrium in the very early stage of the reaction and their thermalization time was expected to be considerably larger than that of light quarks. On the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-28 V. Greco , H. van Hees , R. Rapp

Recent Results on Heavy Quark Production in High Energy Nucleus Collisions

The goal of the ultra-relativistic heavy ion program is to study Quantum Chromodynamics under finite temperature and density conditions. After a couple of decades of experiment, the focus at the top RHIC and the LHC energy has evolved to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-03 Xin Dong

Measurements of jets in heavy ion collisions

The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created in high energy heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This medium is transparent to electromagnetic probes but nearly opaque to colored…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-17 Christine Nattrass

Latest Results on the Hot-Dense Partonic Matter at RHIC

At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) collisions of heavy ions at nucleon-nucleon energies of 200 GeV appear to have created a new form of matter thought to be a deconfined state of the partons that ordinarily are bound in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 M. J. Leitch

Transition to meson-dominated matter at RHIC. Consequences for kaon flow

Anisotropic flow of kaons and antikaons is studied in heavy-ion collisions at CERN SPS and BNL RHIC energies within the microscopic quark-gluon string model. In the midrapidity range the directed flow of kaons v_1 differs considerably from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 L. Bravina , L. Csernai , Amand Faessler , C. Fuchs , E. Zabrodin

Hadron Production at Intermediate $p_T$ at RHIC

Large proton and antiproton enhancement with respect to pions has been observed at intermediate transverse momentum $p_T \approx$ 2-5 GeV/$c$ in Au+Au collisions at RHIC. To investigate the possible source of this anomaly, the production of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Tatsuya Chujo

Heavy quark transport in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC within the UrQMD transport model

We have implemented a Langevin approach for the transport of heavy quarks in the UrQMD hybrid model. The UrQMD hybrid approach provides a realistic description of the background medium for the evolution of relativistic heavy ion collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-13 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Marcus Bleicher

Freeze-out of strange hadrons at RHIC

The production and freeze-out conditions of strange particles, produced in Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies, are studied within microscopic transport model. The system of final particles can be represented as a core, containing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Bravina , K. Tywoniuk , E. Zabrodin

Pion, kaon, and (anti-)proton production in U+U Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 193 GeV measured with the STAR detector

We present the first measurements of transverse momentum spectra of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, $p(\bar{p})$ at midrapidity ($|y| < 0.1$) in U+U collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 193 GeV with the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion…

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Photon-Photon and Photon-Hadron Interactions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Colliders

In central collisions at relativistic heavy ion colliders like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC/Brookhaven and the Large Hadron Collider LHC (in its heavy ion mode) at CERN/Geneva, one aims at detecting a new form of hadronic matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerhard Baur , Kai Hencken , Dirk Trautmann

Transport Theories for Heavy Ion Collisions in the 1 AGeV Regime

We compare multiplicities as well as rapidity and transverse momentum distributions of protons, pions and kaons calculated within presently available transport approaches for heavy ion collisions around 1 AGeV. For this purpose, three…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-25 E. E. Kolomeitsev , C. Hartnack , H. W. Barz , M. Bleicher , E. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing , L. W. Chen , P. Danielewicz , C. Fuchs , T. Gaitanos , C. M. Ko , A. Larionov , M. Reiter , Gy. Wolf , J. Aichelin