The STAR experiment at the relativistic heavy ion collider

Adams, D. L.; Added, N.; Ahmad, Shakeel; Akimenko, S.A.; Anderson, B. D.; Anderson, Gary; Anjos, R. M.; Aprahamian, A.; Arestov, Yu.I.; Atkin, E.; Baldwin, A. R.; Baublis, V.; Beddo, M. E.; Belikov, N.I.; Bellwied, R.; Belousov, V.I.; Bennett, S.; Bercovitz, J.; Bertram, I.; Bielecki, J.; Bieser, F.; Biswas, N. N.; Bloomer, M.; Bonner, B. E.; Brady, P.; Braithwaite, W. J.; Braun, L.; Buchanan, J.A.; Carlin, N.; Carroll, J.; Cebra, D.; Chacon, A. D.; Chan, C.S.; Chan, K.; Chase, S. I.; Cherney, M.; Choudhury, R. K.; Christie, W.; Chujko, B. V.; Clement, J.M.; Corcoran, M.; Cormier, Thomas Michael; Cramer, J. G.; Crawford, H. J.; Davidenko, A. M.; Dawson, J. W.; Debbe, R.; Derevschikov, A. A.; Young, P.A. De; Dominik, W.; Dou, L.; Drape, J.E.; Duck, Ian; Edwards, W. R.; Eiseman, S.E.; Engelage, J.; Erin, S.V.; Etkin, A.; Ferenc, D.; Flores, I.; Foley, K. J.; Fraenkel, Z.; French, Alfred P.; Friedländer, E. M.; Fritz, David; Garg, U.; Gaździcki, M.; Ghazikhanian, V.; Glass, G.; Gong, W. G.; Grachov, O.; Grebiezkow, J.; Greiner, D.; Greiner, L.; Grimson, Eric; Grosnick, D.; Grushin, V.F.; Guarino, V. J.; Haberichter, W.; Hackenburg, R.; Hall, J. R.; Hallman, T. J.; Harris, J. W.; Hearn, William E.; Hill, D.; Hill, N.; Hirsch, A.; Hjort, E.; Hoffmann, G. W.; Huang, H.; Humanic, T. J.; Igo, G.; Jacobs, P. M.; Jayanti, R.; Jones, P.; Judd, E. G.; Justice, M.; Kadija, K.; Kaplan, M.; Karol, Paul J.; Kasprzyk, T.; Keane, D.; Kenney, V. P.; Khodinov, A.; Kleinfelder, S.; Константинов, А. С.; Kostin, D.; Kotov, I.V.; Kozlov, V.; Kramer, M.; Kuryatkov, V.; LaPierre, R.L.; Lasiuk, B.; Lebedev, A.; Vine, M.J. Le; Li, Q.; Lindenbaum, S. J.; Lindenstruth, V.; Lindstrom, P. J.; Ljubičić, A.; Llope, W. J.; Longacre, R. S.; Lopiano, D.; Love, W. A.; Madansky, L.; Margetis, S.; Marx, J. N.; Matis, H. S.; Matulenko, Yu. A.; McParland, C.; McShane, T. S.; Meschanin, A.; Milosevich, Z.; Miphtakhov, N.; Mirk, K.; Mitchell, J. T.; Mitchell, Jack; Moore, C. F.; Mordechaǐ, S.; Morse, R. J.; Murgatroyd, J. T.; Mutchler, G. S.; Mysnick, A.; Nasiatka, J.; Naudet, C. J.; Назаров, А. А.; Nevolin, V. N.; Noggle, T.; Novikov, S. I.; Nurushev, S. B.; Odyniec, G.; Ogilvie, C. A.; Olson, D.; Oltchak, A.; Onishenko, E.; Paganis, E.; Paić, G.; Pavlinov, A. I.; Pawlak, T.; Peryt, W.; Petereit, E.; Platner, E.D.; Pluta, J.; Polyarush, A. Yu.; Porile, N.; Poskanzer, A. M.; Prindle, D.; Prokofyeva, T.; Pruneau, C.; Rai, G.; Rasson, J.; Ray, Rajarshi; Read, David; Renfordt, R.; Riley, P.J.; Ritter, H.G.; Roberts, J.; Roehrich, Dieter; Roger, G.; Rollefson, A.A.; Romero, J. L.; Ronzhin, A.; Rykov, V. L.; Sakrejda, I.; Saulys, A. C.; Schambach, J.; Scharenberg, R. P.; Schroeder, L. S.; Seger, J.; Сергеев, В. А.; Seymour, Danelle K.; Shal'nov, A.V.; Shao, Yu; Sheen, J.; Shestermanov, K. E.; Shuman, D.; Simakov, A.; Soloviev, L. F.; Spinka, H.; Srivastava, B.; Stock, R.; Stone, R.; Strikhanov, M.; Stringfellow, B.; Stroebele, H.; Sustich, A.; Symons, T. J. M.; Szanto, E.M.; Toledo, A. Szanto de; Sytsko, Yu. A.; Tang, J. L.; Tarakanov, S.; Tincknell, M.; Toy, M.; Trainor, T. A.; Trentalange, S.; Tsay, O.D.; Tserruya, I.; Ufimtsev, A.G.; Underwood, D. G.; Molen, A. Vander; Vanyashin, A.; Vasiliev, A.; Vilkelis, G.; Volkov, Yu. N.; Voloshin, S. A.; Vranić, D.; Ward, H.; Watson, J. W.; Welsh, Robert C.; Wenig, S.; Westfall, G. D.; Whitfield, J.; Whitten, C. A.; Wieman, H.; Wilson, Kenneth E.; Wold, Donald C.; Wolf, K.; Yepes, P.; Yokosawa, A.; Zhang, W.; Zhao, K.; Zhu, X.; Zhu, Y.; Zyrin, V.E.

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“…Table II lists the optimum decay channels and mass ranges for possible Y = 0 dibaryon resonance searches. The last column indicates whether the channels include those appropriate for STAR [19]. Of the listed decay products, STAR can identify only protons (p), Λs and Ξ − s. Eight of the Y = 0 dibaryon states in Tables I and II (corresponding to each of the I 3 =0 states) are seen to be appropriate for a program of research with STAR.…”

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“…In addition, the detector must handle high data rates and have event processing capabilities for very large data volumes. The STAR detector [19] at RHIC with its central vertex tracking system (SVT-SSD) is well-suited for such experiments. For the simulations to be discussed here, the parameters in Table III were used to approximate the kinematic acceptance and reconstruction performance of STAR (including the SVT-SSD).…”

Section: Search For Dibaryon Resonances Using Starmentioning

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“…In this work we explore the feasibility of observing evidence for the existence of several doubly-strange dibaryon resonances through study of the ΛΛ and NΞ invariant mass spectra constructed from relativistic heavy ion collision data to be taken at RHIC. 5 We focus on using the STAR [19] detector [with the Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) and Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) [20] upgrades] since it is the most suited of the RHIC detectors for such a program. A preliminary study [20,21] suggested that STAR could be used to search for H 0 → ΛΛ with resonance masses a few hundred MeV above M ΛΛ .…”

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“…(19) m T = M(H 27 ) 2 + p 2 T is the transverse mass, T = 238 MeV, β = 3.0 GeV −1 , A is a normalization constant, and at midrapidity (y=0) the m T distribution corresponds to an effective temperature of 139 MeV. For this distribution function approximately 39% of the total H 27 s have all four decay particles fully contained within the acceptance…”

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Can doubly strange dibaryon resonances be discovered at RHIC?

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The baryon-baryon continuum invariant mass spectrum generated from relativistic nucleus + nucleus collision data may reveal the existence of doubly-strange dibaryons not stable against strong decay if they lie within a few MeV of threshold. Furthermore, since the dominant component of these states is a superposition of two color-octet clusters which can be produced intermediately in a color-deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP), an enhanced production of dibaryon resonances could be a signal of QGP formation. A total of eight, doubly-strange dibaryon states are considered for experimental search using the STAR detector (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) at the new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). These states may decay to ΛΛ and/or pΞ − , depending on the resonance energy. STAR's large acceptance, precision tracking and vertex reconstruction capabilities, and large data volume capacity, make it an ideal instrument to use for such a search. Detector performance and analysis sensitivity are studied as a function of resonance production rate and width for one particular dibaryon which can directly strong decay to pΞ − , but not ΛΛ. Results indicate that such resonances may be discovered using STAR if the resonance production rates are comparable to coalescence model predictions for dibaryon bound states.

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“…Another collider due to start taking data in 1999 is RHIC, which expects to reach nuclear energy densities ∼ 6 GeV/fm 3 . As we heard here from Plasil [20], this will have two large experiments: STAR [21] which will measure general event charactersitics and statistical signatures, and PHENIX [22] which will concentrate more on hard probes such as ℓ + ℓ − pairs. RHIC will also have two smaller experiments: PHOBOS [23] and BRAHMS [20].…”

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Physics at Future Colliders

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International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics

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After a brief review of the Big Issues in particle physics, we discuss the contributions to resolving that could be made by various planned and proposed future colliders. These include future runs of LEP and the Fermilab Tevatron collider, B factories, RHIC, the LHC, a linear e + e − collider, an e − p collider in the LEP/LHC tunnel, a µ + µ − collider and a future larger hadron collider (FLHC). The Higgs boson and supersymmetry are used as benchmarks for assessing their capabilities. The LHC has great capacities for precision measurements as well as exploration, but also shortcomings where the complementary strengths of a linear e + e − collider would be invaluable. It is not too soon to study seriously possible subsequent colliders.

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