RHIC Analysis Group

Recent Publications

Explore the group's recent journal articles, conference work, and preprints by research theme. Each title links to the publication record.

1. Go, Y., Torbunov, D., Huang, Y., Li, S., Rinn, T., Yu, H., Viren, B., Lin, M., Ren, Y., Perepelitsa, D., & Huang, J. (2026). Robust and generalizable background subtraction on images of calorimeter jets using unsupervised generative learning. Scientific Reports https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-59672-8
2. Shih, C., Nukazuka, G., Sugiyama, Y., Akiba, Y., Cacace, D., En’yo, H., Hachiya, T., Hasegawa, S., Hata, M., Imai, H., Kuo, C., Morita, M., Nakagawa, I., Nakamura, Y., Nakano, G., Namimoto, Y., Nouicer, R., Pisani, R., Shibata, M., et al. (2026). Beam test results of the Intermediate Silicon Tracker for sPHENIX. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1086, 171312 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2026.171312
3. Wang, Y., Ma, R., Shen, K., Tang, Z., & Zha, W. (2026). Reducing systematic bias in machine learning applications to J/ψ signal extraction in high-energy nuclear physics. Nuclear Science and Techniques, 37(8), Article 145 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41365-026-01985-4
4. Ren, Y., Osborn, J. D., Brost, E., Yu, H., Abidi, S. H., Go, Y., Li, S., Park, D., Huang, Y., Luo, X., Lin, Y., Boyle, P., Huang, J., Klimentov, A., Begel, M., Qian, X., Wenaus, T. J., Denisov, D., Deshpande, A., et al. (2026). A roadmap toward scaling, reasoning and self-evolving foundation models for nuclear and particle physics. International Journal of Modern Physics A, Article 2650086 https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x26500867
5. Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alshammri, A. K., Aschenauer, E. C., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Bao, X., Barik, P., Barish, K., Behera, S., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., et al. (2026). Evidence of spin-interference effects in exclusive 𝐽/𝜓→𝑒+⁢𝑒− photoproduction in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review Letters, 877, 140405 https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/tcdb-ldh8
6. Betts, W., Chen, J., Fisyak, Y., Ke, H., Kisel, I., Kisel, I., Kisel, P., Kozlov, G., Landgraf, J., Lauret, J., Ljubicic, T., Ma, Y., Margetis, S., Qiu, H., Shen, D., Shou, Q., Sun, X., Tang, A., Van Buren, G., et al. (2026). The high level trigger and express data production at STAR. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1088, 171489 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2026.171489
7. Aboona, B., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M., Ahammed, Z., Alshammri, A., Aschenauer, E., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Bao, X., Barik, P., Barish, K., Behera, S., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., et al. (2026). Measurement of inclusive J/ψ production in Au+Au collisions at √ sNN = 54.4 GeV at STAR. Physics Letters B, 877, 140405 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140405
8. Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alshammri, A. K., Aschenauer, E. C., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Bao, X., Barik, P., Barish, K., Behera, S., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S. et al. (2026). Observation of Charmonium Sequential Suppression in Heavy-Ion Collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Physical Review Letters, 136(12), Article 122302 https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/ghzh-kv8z
9. Huang, Y., Go, Y., Huang, J., Li, S., Luo, X., Marshall, T., Osborn, J. D., Pinkenburg, C., Ren, Y., Shulga, E., Yoo, S., & Yoon, B. (2026). Variable rate neural compression for sparse detector data. Patterns, 7(3), 101452 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101452
10. Li, S., Huang, Y., Park, D., Luo, X., Yu, H., Go, Y., Pinkenburg, C., Lin, Y., Yoo, S., Osborn, J., Roland, C., Huang, J., & Ren, Y. (2026). TPCpp-10M: Simulated proton-proton collisions in a time projection chamber for AI foundation models. Data in Brief, 64, 112393 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.112393
11. Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alshammri, A. K., Aschenauer, E. C., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Bao, X., Barik, P., Barish, K., Behera, S., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., et al. (2026). Measurement of the longitudinal flow-plane decorrelation using multi-plane cumulants in √sNN = 200 GeV Au+Au, Ru+Ru, and Zr+Zr collisions. Physical Review C https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/75tf-ljtk
12. Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alshammri, A. K., Aschenauer, E. C., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Bairathi, V., Bao, X., Barik, P., Barish, K., Behera, S., Bellwied, R., Bhagat, P., Bhasin, A., Bhatta, S., (2025). Energy Independence of the Collins Asymmetry in p↑p Collisions. Physical Review Letters, 135(26), Article 261902 https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/jgsw-zhny
13. Abdulameer, N. J., Acharya, U., Adare, A., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N. N., Akiba, Y., Alfred, M., Anderson, D., Andrieux, V., Antsupov, S., Apadula, N., Asano, H., Azmoun, B., Babintsev, V., Bai, M., Bandara, N. S., Bannier, B., Bannikov, E., Barish, K. N., et al. (2025). Low-mass vector-meson production at forward rapidity in p+p and Au+Au collisions at √sNN =200GeV. Physical Review C, 112(6), Article 064918 https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/s25h-my1f
14. Magdy, N., Tribedy, P., Tsang, C. Y., & Xu, Z. (2025). Understanding baryon stopping at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider top energies. Physical Review C, 112(5), Article 054904 https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/ghb2-4y3s
15. Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbayev, A., Alekseev, I., Alpatov, E., Alshammri, A. K., Aparin, A., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Bao, X., Barik, P., Barish, K., Behera, S., et al. (2025). Search for the chiral magnetic effect through beam energy dependence of charge separation using event shape selection. Physical Review C https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/pj7s-9ym7
16. Akiba, Y., Aso, H., Bertaux, J., Cacace, D., Chen, K., Cheng, K., Enokizono, A., Enyo, H., Fujiki, K., Fujino, Y., Fujiwara, M., Hachiya, T., Harada, T., Hasegawa, S., Hata, M., Hong, B., Hwang, J., Ichino, T., Ikemoto, M., et al. (2025). The ladder and readout cables of intermediate silicon strip detector for sPHENIX. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1082, 171020 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2025.171020
17. Abdulhamid, M. I., Acharya, U., Adams, E. R., Adawi, G., Aidala, C. A., Akiba, Y., Alfred, M., Ali, S., Alsayegh, A., Altaf, S., Amedi, H., Anderson, D. M., Andrieux, V. V., Angerami, A., Applegate, N., Aso, H., Aune, S., Azmoun, B., Bailey, V. R., et al. (2025). Measurement of the transverse energy density in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200GeV with the sPHENIX detector. Physical Review C, 112(2), Article 024908 https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/h8d5-swg6
18. Aboona, B. E., Adam, J., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbayev, A., Alekseev, I., Alpatov, E., Alshammri, A. K., Aparin, A., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Averichev, G. S., Bairathi, V., Bao, X., Barish, K., Behera, S., Bhagat, P. et al. (2025). Measurement of Two-Point Energy Correlators Within Jets in p+p Collisions at √s =200 GeV. Physical Review Letters https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/wv2t-dkgn
19. Abdulhamid, M. I., Acharya, U., Adams, E. R., Adawi, G., Aidala, C. A., Akiba, Y., Alfred, M., Ali, S., Alsayegh, A., Altaf, S., Amedi, H., Anderson, D. M., Andrieux, V. V., Angerami, A., Applegate, N., Aso, H., Aune, S., Azmoun, B., Bailey, V. R. et al. (2025). Measurement of charged hadron multiplicity in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV with the sPHENIX detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025(8), Article 75 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep08(2025)075
20. Tang, A. (2025). Probing spin and lifetime correlations in entangled hyperon-antihyperon pairs. Physics Letters B, 868(7), 139820 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139820
21. Aboona, B., Adam, J., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, I., Aggarwal, M., Ahammed, Z., Aitbayev, A., Alekseev, I., Alpatov, E., Alshammri, A., Aparin, A., Aslam, S., Atchison, J., Averichev, G., Bairathi, V., Bao, X., Barik, P., Barish, K., Behera, S. et al. (2025). Hyperon global polarization in isobar Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. Physics Letters B https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139891