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STAR results from the first RHIC year

Rene Bellwied

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0112250

Abstract

An overview is presented of the results of the STAR experiment from the analysis of Au+Au collisions at s_NN = 130 GeV acquired during the first year of RHIC operation. The transverse momentum distribution of negative hadrons has been studied out to 6 GeV/c in central Au+Au collisions and elliptic flow measurements out to 4.5 GeV/c in non-central collisions. This allows us to study hard processes and potentially effects of nuclear matter on parton propagation. Soft processes, which dominate particle production below around 2 GeV/c, have also been studied through the identified spectra of kaons, p, and strange baryons.

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