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We report multi-differential measurements of strange hadron production ranging from mid- to target-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at a center-of-momentum energy per nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=3$ GeV with the STAR experiment at RHIC.…
We present a measurement of the pseudorapidity density of primary charged particles near mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV as a function of the number of participating nucleons. These results are compared to models in…
We present the scaling properties of mass number of light (anti)nuclei production in midrapidity Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt {s_{NN}}=200$ GeV based on the PACIAE + DCPC model. It is found that the integrated yield of light (anti)nuclei…
Mid-rapidity transverse mass spectra and multiplicity densities of charged and neutral kaons are reported for Au+Au collisions at $\snn$=130 GeV at RHIC. The spectra are exponential in transverse mass, with an inverse slope of about 280 MeV…
A natural framework to understand the energy dependence of bulk observables from lower energy experiments to the LHC is provided by the Color Glass Condensate, which leads to a "geometrical scaling" in terms of an energy dependent…
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We present preliminary STAR results on measurements of multi-strange particles $\Xi$, $\Omega$ and their anti-particles from Au+Au and Cu+Cu at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=62.4$ GeV collisions. In order to better understand the role of strangeness…
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