scholarly journals Overview of results from phase I of the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 01009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Phase I ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1860079
Author(s):  
Shuai Wang

The STAR experiment at RHIC is upgrading the inner sectors of the Time Projection Chamber (iTPC) to increase the segmentation on the inner padplane from 13 to 40 rows and to replace the inner sector multiwire proportional chamber (MWPC). The upgrade will provide better momentum resolution, better dE/dx resolution, and most importantly it will provide improved acceptance at high rapidity to [Formula: see text]1.5 compared to the current TPC coverage of [Formula: see text]1.0. The enhanced TPC capabilities based on this upgrade are critical to the physics program of the Beam Energy Scan Phase II at RHIC during 2019-2020, in particular the QCD phase transition study. In this proceedings, the iTPC MWPC module fabrication and prototype testing results are discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 853 ◽  
pp. 1-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Bzdak ◽  
ShinIchi Esumi ◽  
Volker Koch ◽  
Jinfeng Liao ◽  
Mikhail Stephanov ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 01018
Author(s):  
Alexey Aparin

We present an overview of the recent results obtained by the STAR Collaboration at RHIC.We report the beam energy dependence of directed flow of strange particles. These results support the assumption, that directed flow is formed before hadronization and observed particles are formed via coalescence of constituent quarks. First evidence of a non-zero directed flow of D0 meson is reported. We present the precision measurement of elliptic flow of D0 meson and the first measurement of Λc baryon in Au+Au collisions at $\rad{}{s_{NN} } = 200\,{\rm{GeV}}$, which suggests thermalization of charm quarks. We report results of global Λ polarization measurements in Au+Au collisions, together with the investigation of polarization dependence of centrality and transverse momentum pT. Results from the STAR fixed-target program show good agreement with previously obtained results. A precise measurement of the $_{{\rm{\Lambda }}}^{3} H$ lifetime is presented. Mesonic decay modes are used to reconstruct the $_{{\rm{\Lambda }}}^{3} H$ from Au+Au collisions. The measured lifetime is about 50% shorter than the one of a free Λ, indicating a strong hyperon-nucleon interaction in the hypernucleus system. Finally, we give an outlook to detector upgrades for the Beam Energy Scan phase II.


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