1301.7224 (Michal Sumbera)

Results from STAR Beam Energy Scan Program    [PDF]

Michal Sumbera

Results from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program conducted recently by STAR experiment at RHIC are presented. The data from Phase-I of the BES program collected in Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energies (\sqrt{s_{NN}}) of 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV cover a wide range of baryon chemical potential ?\mu_B (100-400 MeV) in the QCD phase diagram. Several STAR results from the BES Phase-I related to "turn-o?ff" of strongly inter- acting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) signatures and signals of QCD phase boundary are reported. In addition to this, an outlook is presented for the future BES Phase-II program and a possible ?fixed target program at STAR.

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