Overview and highlights of bulk correlations at STAR. (July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McDonald, Daniel
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Number 636(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-07
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/636/1/012008
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Abstract: The first phase of the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was completed during the years 2010, 2011 and 2014, with Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energies ( ) of 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV. The BES has three distinct goals: search for the turning off of the signatures of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), search for the first-order phase transition, and search for the critical point of nuclear matter. We report several interesting results on each of these fronts. In addition, we report the first bulk correlation results from U+U collisions at STAR from a three week exploratory run in 2012.