TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dietel, Thomas
T1  - Hard physics in STAR
T2  - Proceedings of Science
N2  - The hot and dense matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions is believed to undergo a transition into a deconfined phase where partonic degrees of freedom determine the dynamics of the medium. High-p⊥ partons, that are produced in the initial collisions between nucleons of the incoming nuclei, lose energy as they propagate through the medium. This effect, called jetquenching, is observed in high-p⊥ particle spectra, in azimuthal correlations with the reaction plane (elliptic flow) and jet-like two-particle correlations.
STAR consists of tracking detectors and electromagnetic calorimetry with large and azimuthally symmetric acceptance and is exceptionally well suited for single particle detection and correlation studies at high p⊥. In the last five years, it has collected a large dataset including Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at different energies and reference data from p+p and d+Au collisions.
We present particle spectra and two-particle correlations at high-p⊥, and relate these measurements to the properties of the medium.
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2349
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-45305
SN  - 1824-8039
N1  - Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence.
VL  - 021
IS  - (HEP2005)136
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
PB  - SISSA
CY  - Trieste
ER  -