The European Physical Journal C (EPJ C)

Open Access

Editorial

Preface p. 1

F. Antinori, S. Bass, A. de Falco, C. Kuhn, M. Nardi, T. Peitzmann, T. Ullrich, J. Velkovska and U.A. Wiedemann

Published online: 06 January 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0190-6

What more can be learned from high p_T probes at RHIC? p. 3

J.C. Dunlop

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0119-0

Rethinking the QCD collisional energy loss p. 9

A. Peshier

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0063-z

Signatures of Mach shocks at RHIC p. 13

T. Renk

Published online: 26 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0066-9

Dilepton tagged jets p. 19

C. Mironov, P. Constantin and G.J. Kunde

Published online: 08 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0114-5

Search for the onset of baryon anomaly at RHIC-PHENIX p. 23

T. Chujo

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0088-3

Identified charged hadron production at high p_T in =200 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC-PHENIX p. 29

M. Konno

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0101-x

Investigation of the high-p_T strange baryon anomalies at RHIC p. 35

M.A.C. Lamont

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0090-9

Neutral meson production at high p_T with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 41

H. Buesching and The PHENIX Collaboration

Published online: 07 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0077-6

High-p_T π⁰ production with respect to the reaction plane using the PHENIX detector at RHIC p. 47

D.L. Winter

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0094-5

Identified two-hadron correlations at STAR using Λ, Λ̄, and K⁰ _Short triggers with charged hadrons in Au + Au collisions at =200 GeV p. 51

L. Gaillard

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0095-4

Near-side Δη correlations of high-p_t hadrons from STAR p. 57

J. Putschke

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0115-4

Jet properties from two-particle azimuthal correlations in d+Au collisions at =200 GeV at STAR p. 61

F. Benedosso

Published online: 02 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0123-4

Femtoscopy in heavy ion collisions p. 65

M. Lisa

Published online: 30 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0122-5

Proton–proton, anti-proton–anti-proton, proton–anti-proton correlations in Au + Au collisions measured by STAR at RHIC p. 75

H.P. Gos

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0099-0

Femtoscopy in p+p vs. heavy ion collisions in STAR p. 81

Z. Chajecki

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0087-4

Anisotropic flow from RHIC to the LHC p. 87

R. Snellings

Published online: 17 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0107-4

Studying the energy dependence of elliptic and directed flow within a relativistic transport approach p. 91

H. Petersen and M. Bleicher

Published online: 22 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0071-z

Space-time evolution of bulk QCD matter at RHIC p. 97

C. Nonaka and S.A. Bass

Published online: 21 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0062-0

What can we learn from the energy dependence of strangeness production at RHIC? p. 103

J. Speltz

Published online: 30 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0104-7

Do small systems equilibrate chemically? p. 109

I. Kraus, H. Oeschler and K. Redlich

Published online: 21 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0058-9

Strangeness production time and the K⁺/π⁺ horn p. 115

B. Tomášik and E.E. Kolomeitsev

Published online: 24 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0067-8

Strange prospects for LHC energies p. 121

B. Hippolyte

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0120-7

Resonance production in RHIC collisions p. 125

C. Markert

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0093-6

How important are next-to-leading order models in predicting strange particle spectra in p+p collisions at STAR? p. 129

M. Heinz

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0098-1

ALICE perspectives for the study of charm and beauty energy loss at the LHC p. 135

A. Dainese

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0118-1

Investigation of the ALICE muon forward spectrometer performances for upsilon measurement p. 143

F. Guérin

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0113-6

Electroweak boson detection in the ALICE muon spectrometer p. 149

Z. Conesa del Valle

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0110-9

Low-x QCD with CMS at the LHC p. 155

D. D’Enterria

Published online: 02 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0078-5

Study of the ALICE performance for the measurement of beauty via the electron decay channel p. 163

M. Lunardon

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0106-5

The HFT, a Heavy Flavor Tracker for STAR p. 169

A. Shabetai

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0091-8

A hadron blind detector for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 177

J.A. Kamin

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0100-y

Heavy quarks at RHIC from parton transport theory p. 181

D. Molnar

Published online: 02 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0127-0

The role of the gluonic interactions in early thermalization in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions p. 187

Zhe Xu and C. Greiner

Published online: 02 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0126-1

Gluon shadowing in the Glauber–Gribov model p. 193

K. Tywoniuk, I.C. Arsene, L. Bravina, A.B. Kaidalov and E. Zabrodin

Published online: 24 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0073-x

Quark stars: features and findings p. 199

P. Jaikumar

Published online: 25 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0064-y

Quasi-particle description of strongly interacting matter: Towards a foundation p. 205

M. Bluhm, B. Kämpfer, R. Schulze and D. Seipt

Published online: 21 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0056-y

Thermodynamics of the PNJL model p. 213

C. Ratti, S. Rößner, M.A. Thaler and W. Weise

Published online: 24 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0065-x

What does the ρ-meson do? In-medium mass shift scenarios versus hadronic model calculations p. 219

J. Ruppert and T. Renk

Published online: 26 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0072-y

Direct photons measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 225

S. Bathe

Published online: 09 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0084-7

Direct photons in d+Au collisions at =200 GeV with STAR p. 231

M.J. Russcher

Published online: 30 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0116-3

First measurement of the ϱ spectral function in nuclear collisions p. 235

R. Arnaldi, R. Averbeck, K. Banicz, J. Castor, B. Chaurand, C. Cicalo, A. Colla, P. Cortese, S. Damjanovic, A. David et al. (40 more)

Published online: 02 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0060-2

Measurement of low mass dielectron continuum in =200 GeV Au+Au collisions in the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 243

A. Toia

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0096-3

Measurement of photons via conversion pairs in =200 GeV Au+Au collisions with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 249

T. Dahms

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0089-2

φ meson production in NA60 p. 255

R. Arnaldi, R. Averbeck, K. Banicz, J. Castor, B. Chaurand, C. Cicalo, A. Colla, P. Cortese, S. Damjanovic, A. David et al. (40 more)

Published online: 29 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0111-8

Di-electron production in C+C and p+p collisions with HADES p. 261

T. Eberl

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0097-2

Diphoton production from quark–gluon plasma and hadronic matter p. 269

K.L. Haglin

Published online: 08 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0070-0

The letter “s” (and the sQGP) p. 275

J.L. Nagle

Published online: 26 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0061-1

Charged particle multiplicities in A+A and p+p collisions in the constituent quarks framework p. 281

R. Nouicer

Published online: 06 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0128-z

Resonances and fluctuations at SPS and RHIC p. 287

G. Torrieri

Published online: 24 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0068-7

Energy dependence of proton and antiproton production in central Pb+Pb collisions from NA49 p. 293

E. Kornas

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0102-9

Is soft physics entropy driven? p. 297

H. Caines

Published online: 08 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0109-2

Is constituent quark scaling a unique sign of parton recombination? p. 303

M. Bleicher and X. Zhu

Published online: 02 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0125-2

Event-by-event fluctuation studies in the ALICE experiment p. 309

C. Zampolli

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0105-6

Jet physics in ALICE p. 315

M. Lopez Noriega

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0136-z

What can we learn from high-p_T correlations of neutral strange baryons and mesons at RHIC? p. 321

J. Bielcikova

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0086-5

Multiplicity distributions inside parton cascades developing in a medium p. 327

N. Borghini

Published online: 24 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0057-x

Jet tomography in the forward direction at RHIC p. 333

G.G. Barnaföldi, P. Lévai, G. Papp and G. Fai

Published online: 14 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0069-6

High transverse momentum suppression and surface effects in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions within the PQM model p. 339

C. Loizides

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0059-8

Space-time evolution of hadronization p. 347

A. Accardi

Published online: 06 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0055-z

Open charm measurements at STAR p. 355

Haibin Zhang

Published online: 06 December 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0092-7

Open heavy flavor production from single muons in PHENIX at RHIC p. 359

D.J. Kim

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0124-3

J/ψ production in PHENIX p. 365

R. Granier de Cassagnac

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0112-7

v₂ and R_AA of non-photonic single electrons: which restriction do the current measurements pose on the production of charm, beauty? p. 371

F. Laue

Published online: 14 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0121-6

Suppression of high-p_T non-photonic electrons in Au+Au collisions at =200 GeV p. 375

J. Bielcik

Published online: 27 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0085-6

Dependence of the non-photonic electron spectrum on the charmed baryon-to-meson ratio p. 379

P. Sorensen

Published online: 26 October 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0108-3

Azimuthal anisotropy of electrons from heavy flavor decays in =200 GeV Au-Au collisions at PHENIX p. 383

S. Sakai

Published online: 16 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0103-8

Measurement of single muon yields from charm semileptonic decay at =200 GeV Au + Au collisions at STAR p. 389

C. Zhong

Published online: 28 November 2006

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0117-2

EPJ

The European Physical Journal C

Volume 49 / No 1 (January 2007)

Hot Quarks 2006

Preface p. 1

What more can be learned from high pT probes at RHIC? p. 3

Rethinking the QCD collisional energy loss p. 9

Signatures of Mach shocks at RHIC p. 13

Dilepton tagged jets p. 19

Search for the onset of baryon anomaly at RHIC-PHENIX p. 23

Identified charged hadron production at high pT in =200 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC-PHENIX p. 29

Investigation of the high-pT strange baryon anomalies at RHIC p. 35

Neutral meson production at high pT with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 41

High-pT π0 production with respect to the reaction plane using the PHENIX detector at RHIC p. 47

Identified two-hadron correlations at STAR using Λ, Λ̄, and K0 Short triggers with charged hadrons in Au + Au collisions at =200 GeV p. 51

Near-side Δη correlations of high-pt hadrons from STAR p. 57

Jet properties from two-particle azimuthal correlations in d+Au collisions at =200 GeV at STAR p. 61

Femtoscopy in heavy ion collisions p. 65

Proton–proton, anti-proton–anti-proton, proton–anti-proton correlations in Au + Au collisions measured by STAR at RHIC p. 75

Femtoscopy in p+p vs. heavy ion collisions in STAR p. 81

Anisotropic flow from RHIC to the LHC p. 87

Studying the energy dependence of elliptic and directed flow within a relativistic transport approach p. 91

Space-time evolution of bulk QCD matter at RHIC p. 97

What can we learn from the energy dependence of strangeness production at RHIC? p. 103

Do small systems equilibrate chemically? p. 109

Strangeness production time and the K+/π+ horn p. 115

Strange prospects for LHC energies p. 121

Resonance production in RHIC collisions p. 125

How important are next-to-leading order models in predicting strange particle spectra in p+p collisions at STAR? p. 129

ALICE perspectives for the study of charm and beauty energy loss at the LHC p. 135

Investigation of the ALICE muon forward spectrometer performances for upsilon measurement p. 143

Electroweak boson detection in the ALICE muon spectrometer p. 149

Low-x QCD with CMS at the LHC p. 155

Study of the ALICE performance for the measurement of beauty via the electron decay channel p. 163

The HFT, a Heavy Flavor Tracker for STAR p. 169

A hadron blind detector for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 177

Heavy quarks at RHIC from parton transport theory p. 181

The role of the gluonic interactions in early thermalization in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions p. 187

Gluon shadowing in the Glauber–Gribov model p. 193

Quark stars: features and findings p. 199

Quasi-particle description of strongly interacting matter: Towards a foundation p. 205

Thermodynamics of the PNJL model p. 213

What does the ρ-meson do? In-medium mass shift scenarios versus hadronic model calculations p. 219

Direct photons measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 225

Direct photons in d+Au collisions at =200 GeV with STAR p. 231

First measurement of the ϱ spectral function in nuclear collisions p. 235

Measurement of low mass dielectron continuum in =200 GeV Au+Au collisions in the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 243

Measurement of photons via conversion pairs in =200 GeV Au+Au collisions with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 249

φ meson production in NA60 p. 255

Di-electron production in C+C and p+p collisions with HADES p. 261

Diphoton production from quark–gluon plasma and hadronic matter p. 269

The letter “s” (and the sQGP) p. 275

Charged particle multiplicities in A+A and p+p collisions in the constituent quarks framework p. 281

Resonances and fluctuations at SPS and RHIC p. 287

Energy dependence of proton and antiproton production in central Pb+Pb collisions from NA49 p. 293

Is soft physics entropy driven? p. 297

Is constituent quark scaling a unique sign of parton recombination? p. 303

Event-by-event fluctuation studies in the ALICE experiment p. 309

Jet physics in ALICE p. 315

What can we learn from high-pT correlations of neutral strange baryons and mesons at RHIC? p. 321

Multiplicity distributions inside parton cascades developing in a medium p. 327

Jet tomography in the forward direction at RHIC p. 333

High transverse momentum suppression and surface effects in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions within the PQM model p. 339

Space-time evolution of hadronization p. 347

Open charm measurements at STAR p. 355

Open heavy flavor production from single muons in PHENIX at RHIC p. 359

J/ψ production in PHENIX p. 365

v2 and RAA of non-photonic single electrons: which restriction do the current measurements pose on the production of charm, beauty? p. 371

Suppression of high-pT non-photonic electrons in Au+Au collisions at =200 GeV p. 375

Dependence of the non-photonic electron spectrum on the charmed baryon-to-meson ratio p. 379

Azimuthal anisotropy of electrons from heavy flavor decays in =200 GeV Au-Au collisions at PHENIX p. 383

Measurement of single muon yields from charm semileptonic decay at =200 GeV Au + Au collisions at STAR p. 389

Conference announcements

What more can be learned from high p_T probes at RHIC? p. 3

Identified charged hadron production at high p_T in =200 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC-PHENIX p. 29

Investigation of the high-p_T strange baryon anomalies at RHIC p. 35

Neutral meson production at high p_T with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC p. 41

High-p_T π⁰ production with respect to the reaction plane using the PHENIX detector at RHIC p. 47

Identified two-hadron correlations at STAR using Λ, Λ̄, and K⁰ _Short triggers with charged hadrons in Au + Au collisions at =200 GeV p. 51

Near-side Δη correlations of high-p_t hadrons from STAR p. 57

Strangeness production time and the K⁺/π⁺ horn p. 115

What can we learn from high-p_T correlations of neutral strange baryons and mesons at RHIC? p. 321

v₂ and R_AA of non-photonic single electrons: which restriction do the current measurements pose on the production of charm, beauty? p. 371

Suppression of high-p_T non-photonic electrons in Au+Au collisions at =200 GeV p. 375