RHIC Critical Point Search: Assessing STAR’s Capabilities
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In this report we discuss the capabilities and limitations of the STAR detector to search for signatures of the QCD critical point in a low energy scan at RHIC. We find that a RHIC low energy scan will cover a broad region of interest in the nuclear matter phase diagram and that the STAR detector — a detector designed to measure the quantities that will be of interest in this search — will provide new observables and improve on previous measurements in this energy range.
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