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We present a systematic analysis of two-pion interferometry in Au+Au collisions at √ s NN = 200 GeV using the STAR detector at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. We extract the Hanbury-Brown and Twiss radii and study their multiplicity, transverse momentum, and azimuthal angle dependence. The Gaussianness of the correlation function is studied. Estimates of the geometrical and dynamical structure of the freeze-out source are extracted by fits with blast-wave parametrizations. The expansion of the source and its relation with the initial energy density distribution is studied.

Triple-differential cross sections have been measured as a function of product mass, total kinetic energy, and center-of-mass scattering angle in reactions induced by "'U on ' 0, Mg, "Al, "S, "Cl, Ca, Ca, and ""Zn targets at several bombarding energies between 4.6 and 7.5 MeV /nucleon. The analysis focuses on binary processes in which the product masses are substantially different from the target-projectile masses. These include the complete fusion followed by fission as well as quasifission processes in which large mass transfers occur on a short time scale. The relative contributions of these two components are estimated from the mass-angle correlations and analyzed within the extra and extra-extra push concepts. The time scale for mass transfer in quasifission reactions is derived from turning angles of the intermediate complex, and it is found that the mass drift toward symmetry shows the characteristics of an overdamped motion with a universal time constant independent of scattering system and bombarding energy. This is consistent with the one-body nuclear dissipation mechanism being responsible for the damping in the mass asymmetry degree of freedom. Also the average total kinetic energy of reaction products in quasifission is independent of temperature, supporting the one-body dissipation hypothesis.The elimination of background arising from, e.g. , target impurities and ternary processes, does, however, in practice require the determination of additional parameters. This is especially important in the present experiment where the contribution from the various target constituents of composite targets, such as ZnS and LiCl, can be separated on the basis of these additional parameters.The experimental arrangement consists of four large area (20&(30 cm ) position sensitive avalanche detectors, ' two of which are positioned side by side around the beam axis at a distance of -60 cm from the target, the remaining two being situated at larger angles on opposite sides of the beam axis at a distance of -35 cm. The detector arrangement is shown in Fig. 1. Both binary and ternary coincidences occurring in the four detectors within a resolving time of -SOO -700 ps are recorded. This arrangement allows for the detection of coincident binary products over an angular range of 6' -70 in the laboratory corresponding to 0, =18 -162 . The system is efficient for products spanning the entire mass range from the target to the projectile, and the complete range of fragment kinetic energies.An identical detector arrangement and method of analysis were employed in earlier experiments as described in more detail in Ref. 13. The c.m. angular resolution and the mass resolution were b, HFwHM=2 (FWHM denotes full width at half maximum) and 6 A = 5 u, respectively.In addition, three 7.5 em&7. 5 cm diam NaI detectors were placed at backward angles for the detection of y rays

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The results from the STAR Collaboration on directed flow (v 1 ), elliptic flow (v 2 ), and the fourth harmonic (v 4 ) in the anisotropic azimuthal distribution of particles from Au+Au collisions at √ s NN = 200 GeV are summarized and compared with results from other experiments and theoretical models. Results for identified particles are presented and fit with a blast-wave model. Different anisotropic flow analysis methods are compared and nonflow effects are extracted from the data. For v 2 , scaling with the number of constituent quarks and parton coalescence are discussed. For v 4 , scaling with v 2 2 and quark coalescence are discussed.