1. An update from STAR—using strangeness to probe relativistic heavy ion collisions
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V. V. Belaga, V. Grigoriev, Z. Xu, Sergey Voloshin, P. Sorensen, R. L. Ray, E. Potrebenikova, M.A. Kramer, R. V. Cadman, Peter Graham Jones, K. J. Foley, F. Laue, A. Szanto de Toledo, T. Ljubicic, Jianhong Wu, H. Caines, E. Sugarbaker, T. Pawlak, V. L. Rykov, Frank Jm Geurts, L. Didenko, G. Eppley, J. Porter, I. Sakrejda, J. Balewski, J. Baudot, Claude Andre Pruneau, J. Pluta, R. Willson, D. G. Underwood, F. Meissner, A. Stolpovsky, R. Lednický, V. A. Nikitin, T. Ullrich, Y. V. Zanevski, R. Zoulkarneev, L. Kotchenda, S. Kabana, K. E. Shestermanov, Jinghui Yang, A. Lebedev, Q. J. Liu, M. M. de Moura, K. Schweda, T. J. Hallman, T. J. M. Symons, S. V. Razin, L. Gaudichet, J. Kiryluk, M. L. Miller, B. Choi, R. E. Tribble, R. S. Longacre, H. Bichsel, M. Castro, Jay Roberts, S. R. Klein, C. Struck, O. Barannikova, D. L. Olson, Gerald W Hoffmann, Yu-Gang Ma, A. Tai, P. Szarwas, J. Takahashi, J. Putschke, G. Odyniec, D. Thein, Alexander Kovalenko, O. A. Grachov, X. Dong, C. L. Kunz, C. F. Moore, J. W. Watson, A. Bravar, Joseph Adams, A. A. Derevschikov, L. V. Nogach, A. H. Tang, R.Kh. Kutuev, J. Berger, S. P. Chernenko, A. Ogawa, M. Kopytine, J. Amonett, W. J. Llope, X. L. Wang, Julien Faivre, J. Klay, V. B. Dunin, A. V. Brandin, Zhongyukun Xu, Thomas A. Trainor, A. Ridiger, Thorsten Sven Kollegger, D. Reichhold, D. Magestro, L. Ruan, V. Trofimov, M. Tokarev, A. Rose, V. Emelianov, A. I. Pavlinov, D. Keane, T. J. Humanic, R. Witt, F. Liu, M. B. Tonjes, S. Heppelmann, D. Flierl, Matthew J. Anderson, Marie Germain, R. P. Scharenberg, S. M. Guertin, S L Huang, Alexandre Alarcon Do Passo Suaide, B. Lasiuk, J. H. Thomas, H. S. Matis, L. Martin, David Lynn, H. Long, Nikolai Smirnov, R. Stock, J. Mitchell, L. G. Efimov, G. Skoro, S. E. Vigdor, G. Igo, J. Zoulkarneeva, Christian Claude Kuhn, V. Morozov, I.A. Savin, W. W. Jacobs, D. D. Koetke, V. Petrov, J. E. Draper, A. N. Zubarev, C. A. Gagliardi, E. Hjort, B. E. Bonner, J. Lauret, B. D. Anderson, O. D. Tsai, D. Hardtke, J. Fu, B. K. Srivastava, Yu Chen, R. D. Majka, N. T. Porile, M. Messer, M.M. Corral, G. S. Averichev, H. H. Wieman, J. Sowinski, S. Stanislaus, J. Marx, Z. M. Wang, M. A. Vasiliev, T. Herston, B. Surrow, S. Margetis, J. Schambach, P. Fachini, J. P. Coffin, O. V. Rogachevski, J. Gans, Boris Hippolyte, H. Ward, W. Christie, J. C. Dunlop, A. I. Kulikov, R. Manweiler, J. Carroll, P. Seyboth, Masashi Kaneta, Fuqiang Wang, H. M. Spinka, Sevil Salur, M. Oldenburg, T. Dietel, W. M. Zhang, Andrey Vasiliev, A. M. Poskanzer, Zubayer Ahammed, J. G. Ma, Y. Panebratsev, M. Shao, M. J. LeVine, V. Ghazikhanian, D. Grosnick, S. Lange, G. Rai, Janet Elizabeth Seger, A. A. Kuznetsov, V. I. Yurevich, J. L. Romero, C. P. Lansdell, Yu A. Matulenko, Frank Simon, S.J. Lindenbaum, L. S. Schroeder, E. Yamamoto, E. Finch, T W Henry, I. Zborovský, R.J.M. Snellings, B. Erazmus, R. Wells, A. P. Meschanin, M. Heinz, Lee Stuart Barnby, F. Retiere, Y. Fisyak, M. Horsley, C Whitten, Ian Johnson, N. G. Minaev, N. Xu, P. Filip, C Li, B. Stringfellow, D. Cebra, N. Schmitz, G. D. Westfall, E. Shahaliev, S. Trentalange, W. A. Love, Malgorzata Anna Janik, Yu Melnick, Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz, D. J. Prindle, H. Zhang, E. J. Stephenson, M. A. Lisa, A. Billmeier, J. G. Cramer, R. Fatemi, K. Krueger, M. Cherney, Thomas Michael Cormier, T. S. McShane, P. Nevski, J. E. Gonzalez, M. Lopez-Noriega, Adam Ryszard Kisiel, Michal Sumbera, H. J. Crawford, A. Ishihara, G. Renault, J. Engelage, C. Suire, V. Faine, John N. Wood, J. Castillo, S. W. Wissink, J. M. Landgraf, V. A. Okorokov, M. Strikhanov, G. Rakness, M. Guedon, A. M. VanderMolen, Guy Paic, E. G. Judd, A. Chikanian, S. S. Shimanskii, P.A. Zolnierczuk, Christina Markert, J. Sandweiss, Z. Liu, A. Boucham, D. Arkhipkin, S. Bekele, C. Roy, C. O. Blyth, A. Klyachko, Vladimir Tikhomirov, P. Chaloupka, B. Norman, G. Van Buren, T. W. Ludlam, J. M. Nelson, W. Peryt, H. G. Ritter, H. Z. Huang, Morton Kaplan, X. Z. Cai, R. Bellwied, A. S. Konstantinov, L. C. Bland, L. Liu, V. M. Leontiev, D. Seliverstov, A. Schüttauf, Olivier Ravel, A. S. Hirsch, Peter Martin Jacobs, P. Kravtsov, C. Adler, M. A. C. Lamont, S. B. Nurushev, Z. Milosevich, Jeffrey G. Reid, Hao-Ze Chen, M. Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Q. Li, J. W. Harris, N.D. Gagunashvili, A Cardenas, Z P Zhang, E. Gushin, G. J. Kunde, P. Yepes, V. Eckardt, V. Perevoztchikov, K. Filimonov, Sergey Panitkin, S. U. Pandey, and A. E. Yakutin
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Nuclear reaction ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Strange quark ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Hadron ,Elementary particle ,Kinematics ,Decoupling (cosmology) ,Strangeness ,Asymmetry ,Nuclear physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,media_common - Abstract
An overview of the strangeness measurements made by the STAR collaboration at RHIC for Au-Au collisions at √s NN = 130 and 200 GeV plus p-p collisions at √s NN = 200 GeV is presented. A wealth of information has been generated on the kinematics and scale of strange particle production by this experiment. When viewed in combination a picture emerges of particles demonstrating a surprisingly high degree of collective motion, suggestive of strong internal pressure within the source which builds up rapidly. The non-resonance yields are consistent with statistical hadron formation. Although there appears to be a rapid decoupling of the source, resonance particle measurements show signs of rescattering during the hadronic phase. Meanwhile the observed suppression of high momentum probes and their large azimuthal asymmetry indicate that this hot dense matter has significant interactions with particles moving through it.
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- 2003