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Guo, Y.

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Centrality and Transverse Momentum Dependence of Elliptic Flow of Multistrange Hadrons and φ Meson in Au + Au Collisions at s N N = 200 GeV

In this paper, we present high precision measurements of elliptic flow near midrapidity (|y|<1.0) for multistrange hadrons and φ meson as a function of centrality and transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at center of mass energy $\sqrt{sNN}$=200 GeV. We observe that the transverse momentum dependence of φ and Ωv 2 is similar to that of π and p, respectively, which may indicate that the heavier strange quark flows as strongly as the lighter up and down quarks. This observation constitutes a clear piece of evidence for the development of partonic collectivity in heavy-ion collisions at the top RHIC energy. Number of constituent quark scaling is found to hold within statistical uncertainty for both 0%-30% and 30%-80% collision centrality. Finally, there is an indication of the breakdown of previously observed mass ordering between φ and proton v 2 at low transverse momentum in the 0%-30% centrality range, possibly indicating late hadronic interactions affecting the proton v 2 .

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Centrality dependence of identified particle elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions at s N N = 7.7 – 62.4 GeV

Here, elliptic flow (v 2 ) values for identified particles at midrapidity in Au + Au collisions measured by the STAR experiment in the Beam Energy Scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at √s NN = 7.7–62.4 GeV are presented for three centrality classes. The centrality dependence and the data at √s NN = 14.5 GeV are new. Except at the lowest beam energies, we observe a similar relative v 2 baryon-meson splitting for all centrality classes which is in agreement within 15% with the number-of-constituent quark scaling. The larger v 2 for most particles relative to antiparticles, already observed for minimum bias collisions, shows a clear centrality dependence, with the largest difference for the most central collisions. Also, the results are compared with a multiphase transport (AMPT) model and fit with a blast wave model.

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Measurement of interaction between antiprotons

In this paper, one of the primary goals of nuclear physics is to understand the force between nucleons, which is a necessary step for understanding the structure of nuclei and how nuclei interact with each other. Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, and the large body of knowledge about the nuclear force that has since been acquired was derived from studies made on nucleons or nuclei. Although antinuclei up to antihelium-4 have been discovered and their masses measured, little is known directly about the nuclear force between antinucleons. Here, we study antiproton pair correlations among data collected by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), where gold ions are collided with a centre-of-mass energy of 200 gigaelectronvolts per nucleon pair. Antiprotons are abundantly produced in such collisions, thus making it feasible to study details of the antiproton–antiproton interaction. By applying a technique similar to Hanbury Brown and Twiss intensity interferometry, we show that the force between two antiprotons is attractive. In addition, we report two key parameters that characterize the corresponding strong interaction: the scattering length and the effective range of the interaction. Our measured parameters are consistent within errors with the corresponding values for proton–proton interactions. Our results provide direct information on the interaction between two antiprotons, one of the simplest systems of antinucleons, and so are fundamental to understanding the structure of more-complex antinuclei and their properties.

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Study of dynamics of D 0 → K – e + ν e and D 0 → π – e + ν e decays

Here, in an analysis of a 2.92 fb –1 data sample taken at 3.773 GeV with the BESIII detector operated at the BEPCII collider, we measure the absolute decay branching fractions to be B(D 0 → K – e + ν e ) = (3.505 ± 0.014 ± 0.033)% and B(D 0 → π – e + ν e ) = (0.295 ± 0.004 ± 0.003)%. From a study of the differential decay rates we obtain the products of hadronic form factor and the magnitude of the CKM matrix element $f$ $^{K}_{+}$(0)|V cs | = 0.7172 ± 0.0025 ± 0.0035 and $f$ $^{π}_{+}$(0)|V cd | = 0.1435 ± 0.0018 ± 0.0009.

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