Abstract
The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) experiment takes advantage of its excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities at mid-rapidity to explore the properties of strongly interacting QCD matter created in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. The STAR collaboration presented 7 parallel and 2 plenary talks at Strangeness in Quark Matter 2017 and covered various topics including heavy flavor measurements, bulk observables, electro-magnetic probes and the upgrade program. This paper highlights some of the selected results.
Highlights
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a unique tool to study the most intriguing aspects of the strong interaction in the laboratory
The broadened ρ model calculation [30], which has successfully described the dielectron invariant mass spectra integrated over pT at SPS and RHIC, can not describe the significant enhancement yields observed at very low pT in peripheral A + A collisions
Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) has presented a w√ide variety of measurements for p+p, p+Au, Au+Au, and U+U collisions, at energies ranging from sNN = 19.6 to 200 GeV
Summary
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a unique tool to study the most intriguing aspects of the strong interaction in the laboratory. In high energy heavy-ion collisions performed at RHIC and the LHC, the achieved energy densities are extremely high so that a new form of matter, referred to as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) [1], can be created. This matter has been observed to quickly thermalize and evolve as a perfect fluid with small viscosity over entropy ratio. The STAR heavy-ion program at top RHIC energies is aimed to quantitatively study the properties of the strongly-interacting QGP matter created at vanishingly small baryon density.
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
