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Self-similarity of hard cumulative processes in fixed target experiment for BES-II at STAR

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Search for signatures of phase transition in Au + Au collisions is in the heart of the heavy ion program at RHIC. Systematic study of particle production over a wide range of collision energy revealed new phenomena such as the nuclear suppression effect expressed by nuclear modification factor, the constituent quark number scaling for elliptic flow, the “ridge effect” in Δϕ-Δη fluctuations etc. To determine the phase boundaries and location of the critical point of nuclear matter the Beam Energy Scan (BES-I) program at RHIC has been suggested and performed by STAR and PHENIX Collaborations. The obtained results shown that the program (BES-II) should be continued. In this paper a proposal to use hard cumulative processes in BES Phase-II program is outlined. Selection of the cumulative events is assumed to enrich data sample by new type of collisions characterized by higher energy density and more compressed matter. This would allow finding clearer signatures of phase transition, location of a critical point and studying extreme conditions in heavy ion collisions.

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Tokarev, M.V., Zborovský, I. & Aparin, A.A. Self-similarity of hard cumulative processes in fixed target experiment for BES-II at STAR. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 12, 221–229 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477115020235

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