Search for the critical point of the nuclear matter phase diagram. first results from the beam energy SCAN program at RHIC

Odyniec, Grazyna

doi:10.5506/APhysPolB.43.627

Title: Search for the critical point of the nuclear matter phase diagram. first results from the beam energy SCAN program at RHIC

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In 2010, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) launched a multi-step experimental program to investigate the QCD Phase Diagram in general, and to search for the QCD Critical Point (CP) and/or 1st order phase transition in particular. The BES (Beam Energy Scan) program involves an “energy scan” of Au+Au collisions from the top RHIC energy (√s = 200 GeV) down to energies as low as 5 GeV in NN center of mass. During the first BES run (2010), data were collected at 7.7, 11.5 and 39 GeV. It was complemented in 2011 by two other data sets at 27 and 19.6 GeV. The preparations for the remaining data taking at √s = 5 GeV are in progress. The overview of the BES program and the first experimental results are presented and discussed.

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Odyniec, Grazyna ^[1]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2012

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1407149

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Acta Physica Polonica. Series B

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 43; Journal Issue: 4; Conference: Conference “Strangeness in Quark Matter 2011", Krakow (Poland), 18-24 Sep 2011; Journal ID: ISSN 0587-4254

Publisher:: Jagiellonian University

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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                    Odyniec, Grazyna. Search for the critical point of the nuclear matter phase diagram. first results from the beam energy SCAN program at RHIC.  United States: N. p., 2012. 
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        "Search for the critical point of the nuclear matter phase diagram. first results from the beam energy SCAN program at RHIC".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.5506/APhysPolB.43.627.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1407149.

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  title        = {Search for the critical point of the nuclear matter phase diagram. first results from the beam energy SCAN program at RHIC},

  author       = {Odyniec, Grazyna},

  abstractNote = {In 2010, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) launched a multi-step experimental program to investigate the QCD Phase Diagram in general, and to search for the QCD Critical Point (CP) and/or 1st order phase transition in particular. The BES (Beam Energy Scan) program involves an “energy scan” of Au+Au collisions from the top RHIC energy (√s = 200 GeV) down to energies as low as 5 GeV in NN center of mass. During the first BES run (2010), data were collected at 7.7, 11.5 and 39 GeV. It was complemented in 2011 by two other data sets at 27 and 19.6 GeV. The preparations for the remaining data taking at √s = 5 GeV are in progress. The overview of the BES program and the first experimental results are presented and discussed.},

  doi          = {10.5506/APhysPolB.43.627},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1407149},
  journal      = {Acta Physica Polonica. Series B},

  issn         = {0587-4254},

  number       = 4,

  volume       = 43,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2012},

  month        = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2012}

}

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