Quark Matter 2006 Abstract Administration

Quark Matter 2006 Conf. - November 14-20, 2006, Shanghai - P. R. China

I. Global and Collective Dynamics in A+A Collisions

1. A Statistical model analysis of yields and fluctuations at SPS and RHIC energies P8

2. Effect of equilibrium phase transition on multiphase transport in relativistic heavy ion collisions P8

3. BJORKEN EXPANSION WITH GRADUAL FREEZE OUT P8

4. ENERGY DEPENDENCE OF ELLIPTIC FLOW WITHIN A TRANSPORT APPROACH P9

5. Fluid Dynamics as Diagnostic Tool for Heavy Ion Collisions P9

6. New Formulation of Dissipative Relativistic Hydrodynamics: A minimal theory P10

7. Transport model analysis of particle correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions at femtometer scales P10

8. On a “microscopic Hubble constant” from relativistic nuclear collisions P11

9. SYSTEM SIZE DEPENDENCE OF FREEZE-OUT PROPERTIES AT RHIC P11

10. Anisotropic flows and their scaling in relativistic heavy ion collisions P12

11. KINK IN NUCLEAR PHASE DIAGRAM - A SIGNAL OF PHASE TRANSITION? P12

12. Global Characterization of Heavy Ion Collisions with the CMS Experiment at the LHC P13

13. CGC, Full 3D Hydro, and Hadronic Cascade P13

14. ON THE NECESSITY TO INCLUDE EVENT-BY-EVENT FLUCTUATIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF ELLIPTICAL FLOW P14

15. ON THE STRONGLY-INTERACTING LOW-VISCOSITY MATTER CREATED IN RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS P14

16. Heat capacity and average transverse momentum relevant to QGP phase transition P15

17. Understanding the initial state eccentricity in AA collisions P15

18. Jet Tomographic Tests of the CGC Initial State at RHIC and LHC P16

19. Identify Bottom Contribution in Non-photonic Electron Spectra and v2 from Au+Au Collisions at RHIC P16

20. Rapidity Dependency of Coalescence in Au+Au Collisions at =200 GeV. P17

21. TWO-CHARGED-PARTICLE AZIMUTHAL ANGLE CORRELATION AS ANOTHER PRESENTATION OF ANISOTROPIC ELLIPTIC FLOW IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLISIONS P17

22. ANISOTROPIC FLOW AT RHIC: HOW UNIQUE IS THE NUMBER-OF-CONSTITUENT-QUARK SCALLING ? P17

23. Nuclear Stopping: Paving the way from RHIC to LHC P18

24. Hadron pTspectra and blast-wave description of In-In collisions at the CERN SPS. P18

25. Simulations of Elliptic Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions with the CMS Experiment at the LHC P19

26. Low pT Hadronic Physics with the CMS Detector at the LHC P19

27. ENERGY CONSERVATION IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS P19

28. Anti-particle to particle ratios in p+p, d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at RHIC P20

29. Multiparticle production to next-to-leading order in AA collisions P21

30. Forward nuclear modification factor in Au-Au and Cu-Cu collisions at =62.4GeV P21

31. PARTICLE EMISSION FROM COLLISION SPECTATORS P22

32. Source Imaging of pion emission sources in Pb+Pb collisions at SPS energies P23

33. Counting valence quarks at RHIC and LHC. P23

34. System size and energy dependence of charged-particle multiplicity distributions in p+p, d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at RHIC. P23

35. Source chaoticity in relativistic heavy collisions at SPS and RHIC P24

36. Centrality Dependence of Charged Hadron p_t Spectra at Forward Rapidities in CuCu Collisions at = 200GeV P24

37. GLOBAL POLARIZATION OF QGP IN NON-CENTRAL AA COLLISIONS AT HIGH ENERGIES P25

38. PION ELLIPTIC FLOWS AND HBT INTERFEROMETRY IN A GRANULAR QUARK-GLUON PLASMA DROPLET MODEL P26

39. THE EFFECT OF THE SPECTATOR CHARGE ON THE CHARGED PION SPECTRA IN PERIPHERAL ULTRARELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS P26

40. Rapidity and pT Dependence of Identified-Particle Elliptic Flow at RHIC P27

41. Why even a small viscosity matters at RHIC P27

42. System size and rapidity dependence of the nuclear modification factor P28

43. Energy and Centrality Dependence of Directed and Elliptic Flow in Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at RHIC Energies P28

44. Yields and elliptic flow of $d(\overline{d})$ and $^{3}\!He(^{3}\overline{He})$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV P28

45. INCIDENT-ENERGY AND SYSTEM-SIZE DEPENDENCE OF DIRECTED FLOW P29

46. The inclusive photon and charged particle $v_2$ at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$200GeV in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions P29

47. PHENIX MEASUREMENTS OF REACTION PLANE DEPENDENCE OF HIGH PT PHOTONS AND PIONS IN Au+Au COLLISIONS P30

48. v2 & v4 centrality, pt and particle-type dependence in Au+Au collisions at RHIC P30

49. High-pT Identified Hadron Production in Au+Au and Cu+Cu Collisions at RHIC-PHENIX P31

50. Spin alignment of vector mesons (k*0,φ) in Au+Au and p+p collisions at = 200 GeV P31

51. Excitation functions of baryon anomaly and freeze-out properties at RHIC-PHENIX P31

52. Energy and system size dependence of photon production at forward rapidities at RHIC P32

53. PHENIX Studies of the Scaling Properties of Elliptic Flow at RHIC Energies P32

54. Global polarization of Lambda hyperons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC P33

55. Energy and system size dependence of elliptic flow and v2/ε scaling P33

II. Jet Quenching and Medium Modification of Jet Particles

56. Large p/π ratios at RHIC and LHC P33

57. Mach cones and dijets-angular correlations as a probe of early medium evolution P34

58. DOES THE CRONIN PEAK DISAPPEAR? P34

59. ARE JETS QUENCHED IN COLD NUCLEI? P35

60. ENERGY LOSS OF HIGH ENERGY PARTONS IN HOT QGP AND HIGH PT PHOTONS P35

61. Calculation of Hard Probe - Medium Interactions in 3D-Hydrodynamics P36

62. Quark and gluon jet conversions in the quark-gluon plasma P36

63. Parton Energy Loss at Twist-Six in Deeply Inelastic e-A Scattering P37

64. Parton Thermalization and EnergyLoss in ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions within a Parton Cascade P37

65. Heavy Flavor Physics at RHIC and LHC P38

66. Simulation of jet quenching observables in Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC P38

67. IDENTIFIED PARTICLE NUCLEAR MODIFICATION FACTORS AT RAPIDITY 2 - 3.8 IN AU+AU COLLISIONS AT =200 GEV P39

68. SPATIO-TEMPORAL IMAGING OF THE QUARK GLUON PLASMA VIA JET MODIFICATION P39

69. Hadron Suppression and Nuclear kT Enhancement studied with neutral pions from p+C, p+Pb, and Pb+Pb Collisions at=17.2 GeV P40

70. Study of Jets in Heavy Ion Collisions with the CMS detector at the LHC P40

71. Probing the Quark Gluon Plasma at LHC with virtual γ/Z0 tagged Jets in CMS P41

72. ENERGY LOSS OF A HEAVY QUARK PRODUCED IN AFINITE SIZE MEDIUM P41

73. HEAVY QUARK ENERGY LOSS DUE TO THREE-BODY SCATTERING IN A QUARK-GLUON PLASMA P41

74. Jet energy loss at RHIC and LHC, including collisional and radiative mechanisms and fluctuations P42

75. Heavy quark energy loss and the non-photonic electron spectrum P42

76. JET SHAPES IN OPAQUE MEDIA P43

77. Can collisional energy loss explain nuclear suppression factor for light hadrons P43

78. A Next-to-Leading-Order Analysis of Jet Quenching in High Energy A + A Collisions P43

79. ALTERNATIVE VIEW ON JET ABSORPTION CENARIO P44

80. Finite Creation Time Effects on Collisional Energy Loss of Non-Asymptotic Jets in a QGP P45

81. Effect of jet quenching on the hydrodynamical evolution of QGP P45

82. JETS IN HEAVY ION COLLISIONS WITH A FAST KT JET-FINDER P46

83. NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF JET ENERGY LOSS P46

84. A model of jet quenching in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and high-pt hadron spectra at RHIC P47

85. The QCD collisional energy loss revised P47

86. Flow Coefficients and Jet Characteristics in Heavy Ion Collisions P48

87. The fate of the Mach cone in covariant transport theory P48

88. AdS/CFT and physics of heavy ion collisions P48

89. Near-side $\Delta \eta$ correlations of high-pt hadrons from STAR P49

90. Mechanism of Particle Production in p+p and d+Au collisions P49

91. Properties of particle production at large transverse momenta in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies P50

92. NUCLEAR-INDUCED PARTICLE SUPPRESSION AT LARGE xF AT RHIC P50

93. Low- and intermediate-pT azimuthal di-hadron correlations from = 200GeV AuAu collisions measured in STAR. P51

94. Diagnosing energy loss: PHENIX results on high-pT hadron spectra P51

95. Study of Parton-Medium Interactions via Two- Three- Particle Jet Correlations in PHENIX P52

III. Strangeness and Heavy Flavor Production

96. Charm-hadron Correlations as a Sensitive Probe for Thermalizationin High-Energy Nuclear Collisions P52

97. Competition Between J/ψ Suppression and Regeneration in Quark-Gluon Plasma P53

98. Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on J/y Production in p+A, d+Au and A+A Collisions P53

99. Production of strange particles at RHIC via quark recombination P53

100. Status ond Comparison of Chemical Freeze-Out Criteria P54

101. Strangeness production in Au+Au reactions at 62.4 AGeV P55

102. CENTRALITY AND ENERGY DEPENDENCE OF MESON, PROTON AND HYPERON PRODUCTION P55

103. PRODUCTION OF Φ MESON IN GOLD-GOLD AND P+P COLLISIONS AT TOP RHIC ENERGY P55

104. DOES CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM OCCUR WITHIN SMALL CLUSTERS P56

105. Energy loss of charm quark via dimuon production in Pb-Pb collisions at =5.5TeV P56

106. CERES measurement of strangeness production in central Pb-Au collisions at top SPS energy P57

107. Charm Quark Thermalization in Quark-Gluon Plasma P57

108. ALICE potential for open heavy-flavour physics P57

109. STRANGE PARTICLE PRODUCTION AND THEIR CORRELATIONS IN DIS AT HERA P58

110. Quarkonium Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions with CMS Experiment at the LHC P58

111. First results on J/ψ production in p-A collisions at 158 AGeV P58

112. NA60 results on J/ψ suppression in In-In collisions at 158 AGeV P59

113. Heavy Quark measurements with the Forward Silicon Vertex Tracker upgrade for PHENIX P59

114. The Centrality Dependence of Strange Baryon and Meson Production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions with = 200 GeV P60

115. Dead cone Effect of Charm Quark Radiation P60

116. High pT azimuthal and pseudorapidity correlations with strange baryons and mesons at RHIC P61

117. STATISTICAL HADRONIZATION OF HEAVY QUARKS IN NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS COLLISIONS P61

118. Thermalization of Heavy Quarks and Consequenceson Non-photonic e- p┴ Spectra P62

119. J/ψ PRODUCTION FROM CHARM COALESCENCE IN RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLISIONSP62

120. J/ψ production relative to the reaction plane in Pb-Pb collisions at the CERN SPS P62

121. Heavy flavor production in pA collisions within the MV+BK framework P63

122. Charm Quark Energy Loss in Dense Matter within the Light-Cone Path Integral Approach P63

123. HEAVY QUARK ENERGY LOSS THROUGH SOFT QCD SCATTERING IN THE QGP P64

124. Heavy Quark Diffusion in N=4 Yang-Mills at Strong Coupling P64

125. Charm-anticharm azimuthal correlations at RHIC P65

126. Heavy Quarkonium Survival in Quark-Gluon Plasma P65

127. Study $B$ and $D$ Contributions via Azimuthal Correlations between Non-Photonic Electrons and Charged Hadrons P65

128. F Production at RHIC: Characterization of Coexistence Phase P66

129. K*(892) production in Au-Au collisions at RHIC P66

130. Search for Exotic Multi-quark Resonances in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions P66

131. OPEN CHARM RECONSTRUCTION IN ALICE: D+ → K −π+π+ P66

132. Non-photonic electron yields from Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV at STAR. P67

133. Centrality dependence of J/ψ production in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions by the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC P67

134. Measurement of leptonic and hadronic decays of ω and φ mesons at RHIC by PHENIX P68

135. Scaling of charm integrated cross section and modification of its transverse momentum spectra in d+Au and Au+Au collisions at RHIC P68

136. Heavy Quarkonia Production in p+p collisions from the PHENIX Experiment P68

137. Ξ0(1530) Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions and its Implications for ∆ttherm-chem P69

138. HEAVY QUARK MODIFICATION IN A COMBINED TRANSPORT+QUENCHING APPROACH P70

139. PHENIX results for J/ψ transverse momentum and rapidity dependence in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions P70

140. Heavy Quark Measurements by Single Electrons in the PHENIX Experiment P70

141. A d+Au data-driven prediction of cold nuclear matter effects on J/ψ production in Au+Au collisions at RHIC P71

142. A measurement of the centrality dependence of the NΩ/Nφ ratio and φ anisotropic flow - a test of thermalization in Au+Au collisions at RHIC P71

143. Transverse momentum broadening of heavy quarkonium production P71

144. Quarkonium Production in STAR P72

145. Elliptic flow of electron from heavy flavor decay by the PHENIX P72

IV. Direct Photons, Dileptons and Vector Mesons

146. ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION FROM BROKEN SYMMETRIES IN RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS P73

147. Thermal Radiation from Au + Au Collisions at =200 GeV/A Energy P73

148. Thermal Dimuon Yields at NA60 P73

149. THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION OF RECENT SPS DILEPTON DATA P74

150. DIELECTRON PRODUCTION IN C+C COLLISIONS WITH HADES P74

151. What does the ρ-meson do? NA60's dimuon experiment and in-medium modification of vector mesons P76

152. Measuring Photons and Neutrons at Zero Degree in CMS P76

153. NA60 results on charm and intermediate mass dimuons production in In-In 158 GeV collisions P77

154. New results on the ρ spectral function in Indium-Indium collisions P77

155. Photon-tagged correlations from RHIC to LHC P77

156. HIGH MOMENTUM DILEPTON PRODUCTION FROM JETS IN A QUARK-GLUON PLASMAP78

157. Direct photon production at both initial partonic and final hadronic states in p+p and Au+Au collisions at top RHIC energy P78

158. Thermal Dilepton Production from Dropping ρ based on the Vector Manifestation P79

159. Improved Quark Mass Density-dependant model with quark and ω, σ meson couplings and the deconfinement phase transition of nuclear matter P79

160. MEDIUM MODIFICATION ON VECTOR MESONS IN 12 GeV p + A REACTIONS P80

161. Vector meson spectral function in asymmetric nuclear matter P80

162. Low mass dielectron measurements at J-PARC P81

163. PARTON TRANSVERSE MOMENTA AND DIRECT PHOTON PRODUCTION IN HADRONIC COLLISIONS P81

164. Observation of ∆φ∆η Scaled Correlation Signals which increase with Centrality of Au Au collisions at=200 Gev P82

165. First Measurements of Elliptic Flow Fluctuations P82

166. Is There A Mach Cone? – Three-Particle Azimuthal Correlations from STAR P83

167. Dielectron continuum measurements in √sNN=200 GeV Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at PHENIX P83

168. Systematic Study of High-pT Direct Photon Production with the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC P83

169. A systematic study of low and medium pT direct photon production in the PHENIX experiment P84

170. Azimuthal γ-charged-hadron correlations in d+Au and p+p collisions from STAR at √sNN = 200 GeV P84

V. Hadron Correlations and Fluctuations

171. Fluctuations, Correlations And Finite Volume Effects in HIC P84

172. Study of non-thermal phase transition in relativistic nuclear collisions P85

173. From Di-hadron correlations to parton intrinsic transverse momentum P86

174. Event-by-event pT uctuations and multiparticle clusters in relativistic collisions P86

175. Characteristic form of boost-invariant and cylindrically non-symmetric hydrodynamic equations P87

176. Femtoscopy in Hydrodynamics Inspired Models with Single Freeze-out P87

177. Scale Dependence of Mean Transverse Momentum Fluctuations at Top SPS Energy P88

178. New Results on Fluctuations and Correlations From the 49Na Experiments P88

179. Resonance production in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC (what is strange and what is not so strange?P89

180. Elliptic flow fluctuations in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC P89

181. Two-particle angular correlations in pp, dA and AA collisions at PHOBOS P90

182. Methods for Jet Studies with Three-Particle Correlations P90

183. Two- and three particle azimuthal correlations of high-pt charged hadrons in Pb-Au collisions at 158 AGeV beam energy. P91

184. Multiplicity fluctuations in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at RHIC P91

185. An Inverson-Asymmetric Source Function for HBT Analysis in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions P91