Abstract

One of the primary goals of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is to establish the QCD phase diagram and search for possible phase boundaries. The planned RHIC energy scan program will explore this exciting physics topic using heavy-ion collisions at various center of mass energies. The first test run with Au+Au collisions at s N N = 9.2 GeV took place in early 2008. We present the results on identified particle ratios, azimuthal anisotropy parameters ( v 1 and v 2 ) and HBT at midrapidity using data from this run. These results are compared to data for both lower and higher center of mass energies at the AGS, SPS and RHIC. These new data demonstrate the capabilities of the STAR detector for exploring the QCD phase diagram.

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