Speaker
Michal Sumbera
(Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))
Description
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 aimed to search for "turn-off" 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.
Author
Michal Sumbera
(Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))
