First observations of beam losses due to bound-free pair production in a heavy-ion collider (2008)
Bruce, R., Jowett, J.M., Gilardoni, S., Drees, A., Fischer, W., Tepikian, S., ...
We report the first observations of beam losses due to bound-free pair production at the interaction point of a heavy-ion collider. This process is expected to be a major luminosity limit for the...
Azimuthal dependence of pion source radii in Pb+Au collisions at 158 A GeV (2008)
Adamova, CERES Collaboration: D., Agakichiev, G., Andronic, A., Antonczyk, D., Appelshaeuser, H., Belaga, V., ...
We present results of a two-pion correlation analysis performed with the Au+Pb collision data collected by the upgraded CERES experiment in the fall of 2000. The analysis was done in bins of the...
RHIC Low-Energy Challenges and Plans (2007)
Satogata, T., Ahrens, L., Bai, M., Brennan, J. M., Bruno, D., Butler, J., ...
There is significant interest in RHIC heavy ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$5--50 GeV, motivated by a search for the QCD phase transition critical point. The lowest energies for this search are...
Highlights from the NA60 experiment (2007)
Ferretti, A., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS. It has measured the dimuon yield in Indium--Indium collisions with an In beam of 158 AGeV/c and in p-A collisions with a proton beam...
Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., ...
The PHENIX experiment presents results from the RHIC 2005 run with polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV, for inclusive \pi^0 production at mid-rapidity. Unpolarized cross section results...
Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV (2007)
Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., ...
The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured electrons from heavy flavor (charm and bottom) decays for 0.3 < p_T < 9 GeV/c at midrapidity (|y| < 0.35) in Au+Au...
Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Jamel, A., ...
The dependence of transverse momentum spectra of neutral pions and eta mesons with p_T
Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Alexander, J., ...
Longitudinal density correlations of produced matter in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV have been measured from the inclusive charged particle distributions as a function of pseudorapidity...
Enhancement of the dielectron continuum in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions (2007)
Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Alexander, J., Al-Jamel, A., ...
The PHENIX experiment has measured the dielectron continuum in sqrt{s_NN} = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions. In minimum bias collisions the dielectron yield in the mass range between 150 and 750 MeV/c^2 is...
First observations of beam losses due to bound-free pair production in a heavy-ion collider (2007)
Bruce, R., Drees, A., Fischer, W., Gilardoni, S., Jowett, J. M., Klein, S. R., ...
We report the first observations of beam losses due to bound-free pair production at the interaction point of a heavy-ion collider. This process is expected to be a major luminosity limit for the...
Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., ...
Detailed differential measurements of the elliptic flow for particles produced in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV are presented. Predictions from perfect fluid hydrodynamics for...
Correlated Production of p and $\bar{p}$ in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV (2007)
Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., ...
Correlations between p and pbar's at transverse momenta typical of enhanced baryon production in Au+Au collisions are reported. The PHENIX experiment measures same and opposite sign baryon pairs in...
Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., ...
Azimuthal angle \Delta\phi correlations are presented for charged hadrons from dijets for 0.4 < p_T < 10 GeV/c in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. With increasing p_T, the away-side...
Bultmann, S., Chiang, I. H., Chrien, R. E., Drees, A., Gill, R. L., Guryn, W., ...
We present the first measurements of the double spin asymmetries A_NN and A_SS at sqrt{s}=200 GeV, obtained by the pp2pp experiment using polarized proton beams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider...
NA60 results on $p_T$ spectra and the $\rho$ spectral function in In-In collisions (2007)
Seixas, J., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied low-mass muon pairs in 158 AGeV In-In collisions. A strong excess of pairs is observed above the yield expected from neutral meson decays. The...
Highlights from the NA60 experiment (2007)
Ferretti, A., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS. It has measured the dimuon yield in Indium--Indium collisions with an In beam of 158 AGeV/c and in p-A collisions with a proton beam...
Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., N. Ajitanand, N., Akiba, Y., Alexander, J., ...
Emission source functions are extracted from correlation functions constructed from charged pions produced at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV. The source parameters extracted...
S. Adler, S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., N. Ajitanand, N., Akiba, Y., Alexander, J., ...
Inclusive transverse momentum spectra of eta mesons in the range p_T~2-12 GeV/c have been measured at mid-rapidity (|\eta| < 0,35) by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions...
Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Alexander, J., Al-Jamel, A., ...
Differential elliptic flow (v_2) for phi mesons and (anti)deuterons (d^bar)d is measured for Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. The v_2 for phi mesons follows the trend of lighter pi^+/- and...
Low mass dimuon production in proton-nucleus and indium-indium collisions (2007)
Wöhri, H.K., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment studied low-mass dimuon production in proton-nucleus and indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS. While the p-A data can be well described by a superposition of light neutral...
Intermediate mass dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS (2007)
Shaoyan, R., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
We present preliminary results on the production of intermediate mass dimuons in 158 A-GeV In-In collisions at the CERN SPS. NA38 and NA50 observed a strong excess in this region in S-U and Pb-Pb...
Intermediate mass dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS (2007)
Shaoyan, R., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
We present preliminary results on the production of intermediate mass dimuons in 158 A-GeV In-In collisions at the CERN SPS. NA38 and NA50 observed a strong excess in this region in S-U and Pb-Pb...
Low mass dimuon production in proton-nucleus and indium-indium collisions (2007)
Wöhri, H.K., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment studied low-mass dimuon production in proton-nucleus and indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS. While the p-A data can be well described by a superposition of light neutral...
Intermediate mass dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS (2007)
Shaoyan, R., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
We present preliminary results on the production of intermediate mass dimuons in 158 A-GeV In-In collisions at the CERN SPS. NA38 and NA50 observed a strong excess in this region in S-U and Pb-Pb...
Low mass dimuon production in proton-nucleus and indium-indium collisions (2007)
Wöhri, H.K., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment studied low-mass dimuon production in proton-nucleus and indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS. While the p-A data can be well described by a superposition of light neutral...
J/$\psi$ suppression in indium-indium collisions at SPS energies (2007)
Lourenço, C., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Cicalo, C., ...
In 2003, NA60 collected data on dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at 158 GeV per incident nucleon, to study several anomalies previously observed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at...
J/$\psi$ suppression in indium-indium collisions at SPS energies (2007)
Lourenço, C., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Cicalo, C., ...
In 2003, NA60 collected data on dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at 158 GeV per incident nucleon, to study several anomalies previously observed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at...
J/$\psi$ suppression in indium-indium collisions at SPS energies (2007)
Lourenço, C., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Cicalo, C., ...
In 2003, NA60 collected data on dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at 158 GeV per incident nucleon, to study several anomalies previously observed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at...
$\phi$ meson production in NA60 (2007)
Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Cicalo, C., ...
NA60 is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS which measured dimuon production in nucleusnucleus and protonnucleus collisions. The experiment collected muon pair samples of unprecedented...
$\phi$ meson production in NA60 (2007)
Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Cicalo, C., ...
NA60 is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS which measured dimuon production in nucleusnucleus and protonnucleus collisions. The experiment collected muon pair samples of unprecedented...
$\phi$ meson production in NA60 (2007)
Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Cicalo, C., ...
NA60 is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS which measured dimuon production in nucleusnucleus and protonnucleus collisions. The experiment collected muon pair samples of unprecedented...
First measurement of the $\rho$ spectral function in nuclear collisions (2007)
Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Cicalo, C., ...
The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied low-mass muon pairs in 158 AGeV In-In collisions. A strong excess of pairs is observed above the yield expected from neutral meson decays. The...
Measurement of direct photon production in p + p collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV (2007)
Adler, S. S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Jamel, A., ...
Cross sections for mid-rapidity production of direct photons in p+p collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are reported for 3 < p_T < 16 GeV/c. Next-to-leading order (NLO)...
J/$\psi$ suppression in In-In collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon (2007)
Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., Cicalo', C., ...
The NA60 experiment has studied J/$\psi$ production in Indium-Indium collisions at 158 A$\cdot$GeV. In this paper we present an updated set of results obtained with the complete set of available...
Adcox, K., S. Adler, S., N. Ajitanand, N., Akiba, Y., Alexander, J., Aphecetche, L., ...
The first measurement of energy produced transverse to the beam direction at RHIC is presented. The mid-rapidity transverse energy density per participating nucleon rises steadily with the number of...
Event reconstruction in the phenix central arm spectrometers (2007)
T. Mitchell, J., Akiba, Y., Aphecetche, L., Averbeck, R., C. Awes, T., Baublis, V., ...
Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., N. Ajitanand, N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., ...
The momentum distribution of electrons from decays of heavy flavor (charm and beauty) for midrapidity |y| < 0.35 in p+p collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV has been measured by the PHENIX experiment at...
NA60 results on the $\rho$ spectral function in In-In collisions (2007)
Damjanovic, S., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied low-mass muon pairs in 158 AGeV In-In collisions. A strong excess of pairs is observed above the yield expected from neutral meson decays. After...
Milov, A, Anderson, W, Azmoun, B, Chi, C-Y, Drees, A, Dubey, A, ...
A new Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) for electron identification in high density hadron environment has been installed in the PHENIX detector at RHIC in the fall of 2006. The HBD will identify low...
J/$\psi$ suppression in In-In collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon (2007)
Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment has studied J/$\psi$ production in Indium-Indium collisions at 158 A$\cdot$GeV. In this paper we present an updated set of results obtained with the complete set of available...
NA60 results on the rho spectral function in In-In collisions (2007)
Damjanovic, S, Arnaldi, R, Averbeck, R, Banicz, K, Castor, J, Chaurand, B, ...
The NA60 experiment at the CERN SPS has studied low-mass muon pairs in 158 AGeV In-In collisions. A strong excess of pairs is observed above the yield expected from neutral meson decays. After...
Jet Properties from Dihadron Correlations in p+p Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=200 GeV (2006)
S. Adler, S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., N. Ajitanand, N., Akiba, Y., Al-Jamel, A., ...
The properties of jets produced in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV are measured using the method of two particle correlations. The trigger particle is a leading particle from a large transverse...
Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., ...
J/Psi production in p+p collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV has been Measured in the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) over a rapidity range of -2.2 < y < 2.2 and a...
Adare, A., Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., ...
We present azimuthal angle correlations of intermediate transverse momentum (1-4 GeV/c) hadrons from {dijets} in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV. The away-side dijet...
Adare, A., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Bataineh, H., ...
The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured J/psi production for rapidities 2.2 < y < 2.2 in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. The J/psi invariant yield...
Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Jamel, A., ...
The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has measured the invariant cross section for omega-meson production at mid-rapidity in the transverse momentum range 2.5 < p_T < 9.25 GeV/c in p+p and d+Au collisions at...
Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Alexander, J., ...
Azimuthal correlations of high-pT charged hadron pairs from (di-)jet-fragmentation are studied at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ =200 GeV. The distribution of jet-associated...
Chiang, I. H., Chrien, R. E., Drees, A., Gill, R. L., Guryn, W., ...
We present the first measurements of the double spin asymmetries A_NN and A_SS at sqrt{s}=200 GeV, obtained by the pp2pp experiment using polarized proton beams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider...
Nuclear Effects on Hadron Production in d+Au and p+p Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV (2006)
S. Adler, S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., N. Ajitanand, N., Akiba, Y., Al-Jamel, A., ...
PHENIX has measured the centrality dependence of mid-rapidity pion, kaon and proton transverse momentum distributions in d+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. The p+p data provide a...
Latest results from NA60 (2006)
Förster, A, Arnaldi, R, Forste, A, Averbeck, R, Banicz, K, Castor, J, ...
The NA60 experiment has measured the production of muon pairs and of charged particles in In+In collisions at a beam energy of 158 AGeV. For invariant dimuon masses below the phi the space-time...
S. Adler, S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., N. Ajitanand, N., Akiba, Y., Al-Jamel, A., ...
Deuteron-gold (d+Au) collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider provide ideal platforms for testing QCD theories in dense nuclear matter at high energy. In particular, models suggesting strong...
Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Jamel, A., ...
We present an improved measurement of the double helicity asymmetry for $\pi^0$ production in polarized proton-proton scattering at $\sqrt S$= 200 GeV employing the PHENIX detector at the...
Adler, S. S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Alexander, J., Amirikas, R., ...
Inclusive transverse momentum spectra of eta mesons have been measured within p_T = 2-10 GeV/c at mid-rapidity by the PHENIX experiment in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. In central Au+Au...
First measurement of the rho spectral function in nuclear collisions (2006)
Damjanovic, S., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
The NA60 experiment has studied low-mass muon pairs in 158 AGeV Indium-Indium collisions at the CERN SPS. A strong excess of pairs is observed above the expectation from neutral meson decays. The...
Low mass dimuon production in indium-indium collisions at the CERN SPS (2006)
Floris, M., Arnaldi, R., Averbeck, R., Banicz, K., Castor, J., Chaurand, B., ...
NA60 is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS which measured dimuon production in nucleus-nucleus and proton-nucleus collisions. In this paper we report on a precision measurement of low-mass...
Measurement of Ion Beam Losses due to Bound-Free Pair Production in RHIC (2006)
Jowett, John M, Bruce, R, Drees, A, Fischer, W, Gilardoni, S S, Klein, S, ...
When the LHC operates as a Pb82+ ion collider, losses of Pb81+ ions, created through Bound-free Pair Production at the collision point, and localized in cold magnets, are expected to be a major...
High-$p_T$ $\pi^0$ suppression in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV (2006)
D'Enterria, D.G., Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., ...