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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Physics
1.1 Deconfinement and phase diagram
1.2 Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
1.3 The experimental results at RHIC
1.3.1 Flow
1.3.2 High pT suppression and di-hadron azimuthal correlation
1.3.3 Particle composition in Au+Au at intermediate pT
1.3.4 Summary
1.4 Cronin effect
1.4.1 Why we need d+Au run at RHIC
1.4.2 Lower energy
1.4.3 Predictions: RHIC energy
Chapter 2The STAR Experiment
2.1 The RHIC Accelerator
2.2 The STAR Detector
2.2.1 The Time Projection Chamber
2.2.2 The tine-of-flight tray based on MRPC technology
Chapter 3 Analysis Methods
3.1 Trigger
3.1.1 Centrality tagging
3.1.2Triggerbiasstudy
3.2Trackselectionandcalibration
3.2.1 Calibration
3.3 Raw yield
3.3.1 π raw yield extraction
3.3.2 K raw yield extraction
3.3.3 p and p raw yield extraction
3.4 Efficiency and acceptance correction
3.5 Background correction
3.6 Energy loss correction
3.7 Normalization
Chapter 4 Results
4.1 π. K, p and p spectra in d+Au and p+p collisions at mid-rapidity
4.1.1 Systematic uncertainty
4.2 Cronin effect
4.3 p + p/h ratio in d+Au and p+p collisions at middle pseudo-rapidity
4.4 K/π, p/π and anti-particle to particle ratios
4.5 dN/dy, 〈pT〉, and model fits
4.6 System comparison
Chapter 5 Discussion
5.1 Cronin effect
5.1.1 Model comparison: initial state effect?
5.1.2 Model comparison: recombination
5.1.3 Integral yield RdAu: shadowing effect?
5.1.4 Initial or final state effect: Drel1-Yan process
5.2 Baryon excess in Au+Au collisions
5.2.1 p/p ratio vs pT
5.2.2 Baryon production at RHIC: multi-gluon dynamics?
Chapter 6 Conclusion and Outlook
6.1 Conclusion
6.2 Outlook
6.2.1 Cronin effect at 200 GeV: Mass dependent or baryon/meson dependent?
6.2.2 Electron PID from MRPC-TOFr
6.2.3 Full-TOF Physics
6.2.4 63 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC
APPENDIX A Tables of the Invariant Yields
APPENDIXB How to make MRPC
B.1 Preparations
B.1.1 Glass
B.1.2 Carbon Layer
B.1.3 Mylar layer
B.1.4 Honeycomb board
B.1.5 The printed circuit board (PCB)
B.1.6 Lucite cylinder
B.1.7 Other stuff
B.2 Installation
B.2.1 The outer glass and mylar and PCB
B.2.2 Inner glass and fish-line coiling
APPENDIXC List of Publications
APPENDIXD STAR Collaboration
Bibliography