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Currently doing research within the STAR collaboration (Brookhaven National Lab). Research and thesis are directly related to the spin structure of the proton. The task is to disentangle the possible contributions (Sivers, Collins) to the origin of the spin asymmetries.

Published articles:

1) System size dependence of associated yields in hadron-triggered jets.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Apr 2009. 13pp.
e-Print: arXiv:0904.1722 [nucl-ex]

2) J/psi production at high transverse momentum in p+p and Cu+Cu collisions at s(NN)**1/2 = 200GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Apr 2009. 6pp.
e-Print: arXiv:0904.0439 [nucl-ex]

3) Pion Interferometry in Au+Au and Cu+Cu Collisions at RHIC.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Mar 2009. 12pp.
Submitted to Phys.Rev.C
e-Print: arXiv:0903.1296 [nucl-ex]

4) Spin-dependent Forward Particle Correlations in p+p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 200 GeV.
Nikola Poljak, for the STAR Collaboration (Zagreb U.) . Jan 2009. 4pp.
To appear in the proceedings of 18th International Spin Physics Symposium (SPIN 2008), Charlottesville, Virginia, 6-11 Oct 2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0901.2828 [hep-ex]

5) K/pi Fluctuations at Relativistic Energies.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jan 2009. 6pp.
e-Print: arXiv:0901.1795 [nucl-ex]

6) Measurement of D* Mesons in Jets from p+p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jan 2009. 7pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.D79:112006,2009.
e-Print: arXiv:0901.0740 [hep-ex]

7) Observation of Two-source Interference in the Photoproduction Reaction Au Au ---> Au Au rho0.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Dec 2008. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.102:112301,2009.
e-Print: arXiv:0812.1063 [nucl-ex]

8) Energy and system size dependence of phi meson production in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Oct 2008. 20pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B673:183-191,2009.
e-Print: arXiv:0810.4979 [nucl-ex]

9) Measurements of phi meson production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Sep 2008. 21pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C79:064903,2009.
e-Print: arXiv:0809.4737 [nucl-ex]

10) Systematic Measurements of Identified Particle Spectra in pp, d+Au and Au+Au Collisions from STAR.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Aug 2008. 60pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C79:034909,2009.
e-Print: arXiv:0808.2041 [nucl-ex]

11) Beam-Energy and System-Size Dependence of Dynamical Net Charge Fluctuations.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). 2008-07-21-WAYNE-STATE-PHYSICS, Jul 2008. 24pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C79:024906,2009.
e-Print: arXiv:0807.3269 [nucl-ex]

12) System-size independence of directed flow at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jul 2008. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.101:252301,2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0807.1518 [nucl-ex]

13) Charge Independent(CI) and Charge Dependent(CD) correlations as a function of Centrality formed from Delta phi imum Delta eta Charged Pair Correlations in Minimum Bias Au+Au Collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jun 2008. 37pp.
Submitted to Phys.Rev.C
e-Print: arXiv:0806.0513 [nucl-ex]

14) Indications of Conical Emission of Charged Hadrons at RHIC.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). May 2008. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.102:052302,2009.
e-Print: arXiv:0805.0622 [nucl-ex]

15) Charmed hadron production at low transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at RHIC.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). May 2008. 6pp.
e-Print: arXiv:0805.0364 [nucl-ex]

16) Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV Au + Au collisions.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jan 2008. 25pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C77:054901,2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0801.3466 [nucl-ex]

17) Forward Neutral Pion Transverse Single Spin Asymmetries in p+p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jan 2008. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.101:222001,2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0801.2990 [hep-ex]

18) Spin alignment measurements of the K*0(892) and phi (1020) vector mesons in heavy ion collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200 GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jan 2008. 7pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C77:061902,2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0801.1729 [nucl-ex]

19) Hadronic resonance production in d+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV at RHIC.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). APS-123-QED, Jan 2008. 21pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C78:044906,2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0801.0450 [nucl-ex]

20) rho0 photoproduction in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions at s(NN)**(1/2).
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Dec 2007. 12pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C77:034910,2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0712.3320 [nucl-ex]

21) Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet production in p+p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Oct 2007. 7pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.100:232003,2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0710.2048 [hep-ex]

22) Forward Lambda production and nuclear stopping power in d + Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jun 2007. 11pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C76:064904,2007.
e-Print: arXiv:0706.0472 [nucl-ex]

23) Measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries for di-jet production in proton-proton collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). May 2007. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.99:142003,2007.
e-Print: arXiv:0705.4629 [hep-ex]

24) Enhanced strange baryon production in Au + Au collisions compared to p + p at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). May 2007. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C77:044908,2008.
e-Print: arXiv:0705.2511 [nucl-ex]

25) Global polarization measurement in Au+Au collisions.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). STAR-05-11-2007, May 2007. 11pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C76:024915,2007.
e-Print: arXiv:0705.1691 [nucl-ex]

26) Energy dependence of pi+-, p and anti-p transverse momentum spectra for Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 62.4 and 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Apr 2007. 19pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B655:104-113,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0703040

27) Partonic flow and phi-meson production in Au + Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Mar 2007. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.99:112301,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0703033

28) Charged particle distributions and nuclear modification at high rapidities in d + Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Mar 2007. 8pp.
Submitted to Phys.Lett.B
e-Print: nucl-ex/0703016

29) Mass, quark-number, and sqrt s(NN) dependence of the second and fourth flow harmonics in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions.
By the STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jan 2007. 12pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C75:054906,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0701010

30) Rapidity and species dependence of particle production at large transverse momentum for d+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Sep 2006. 14pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C76:054903,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0609021

31) Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry and cross section for inclusive jet production in polarized proton collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Aug 2006. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.97:252001,2006.
e-Print: hep-ex/0608030

32) Neutral kaon interferometry in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Aug 2006. 11pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C74:054902,2006.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0608012

33) Strange particle production in p+p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jul 2006. 22pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C75:064901,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0607033

34) Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of high-p(T) non-photonic electron suppression in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jul 2006. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.98:192301,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0607012

35) Delta phi Delta eta Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-Gev.
By Star Collaboration (J. Adams et al.). Jul 2006. 17pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.C75:034901,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0607003

36) The Multiplicity dependence of inclusive p(t) spectra from p-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (J. Adams et al.). Jun 2006. 17pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.D74:032006,2006.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0606028

37) Scaling Properties of Hyperon Production in Au+Au Collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (J. Adams et al.). Jun 2006. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.98:062301,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0606014

38) Identified baryon and meson distributions at large transverse momenta from Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (B.I. Abelev et al.). Jun 2006. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.97:152301,2006.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0606003

39) The Energy dependence of p(t) angular correlations inferred from mean-p(t) fluctuation scale dependence in heavy ion collisions at the SPS and RHIC.
By STAR Collaboration (J. Adams et al.). May 2006. 10pp.
Published in J.Phys.G33:451-466,2007.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0605021

40) Strange baryon resonance production in s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV p+p and Au+Au collisions.
By STAR Collaboration (John Adams et al.). Apr 2006. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.97:132301,2006.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0604019

41) Direct observation of dijets in central Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (J. Adams et al.). Apr 2006. 6pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.97:162301,2006.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0604018

42) Measurements of identified particles at intermediate transverse momentum in the STAR experiment from Au + Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) =200- GeV.
By STAR Collaborations and STAR-RICH Collaborations (John Adams et al.). Jan 2006. 15pp.
Submitted to Phys.Rev.C
e-Print: nucl-ex/0601042

43) Identified hadron spectra at large transverse momentum in p+p and d+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV.
By STAR Collaboration (John Adams et al.). Jan 2006. 19pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B637:161-169,2006.
e-Print: nucl-ex/0601033

Conferences and schools:

26.07.2009. SPIN Praha, Prague, Czech Republic                                                                                                ---    TALK (PPT)

28.09.2008. SPIN 2008, Charlottesville, USA                                                                                                      ---    TALK (PPT)    ---    PROCEEDINGS (PDF)    ---    arXiv:0901.2828

27.05.2008. Transversity 2008, Ferrara, Italija                                                                                                      ---   

05.10.2007. 5. znanstveni sastanak HFDa, Primosten, HR                                                                                     ---    ABSTRACT (PDF)    ---    POSTER (PDF)

12.09.2007. Univerzita Karlova v Praze - CEPGC collaboration                                                                            ---

11.06.2007. Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Summer school in particle physics                                                           ---

16.04.2007. STAR analysis meeting                                                                                                                       ---    TALK (PPT)                                                          

21.08.2006. Dubrovnik - CEPGC Summer school                                                                                                 ---

18.06.2006. Labin - Ljetna skola mladih fizicara                                                                                                     ---    PROCEEDINGS (PDF)

29.05.2006. Specialized course: L. Bonora: "Propaedeutical course on Cosmology and Strings"                              ---

18.05.2006. Univerza v Ljubljani -  Specijalizirani tecaj iz teorije polja                                                                    ---

13.01.2006. Rhic Spin Collaboration meeting                                                                                                         ---    TALK (PPT)

Books:

2008 - Planinic, Poljak, Zbirka zadataka iz mehanike, Skolska knjiga, Zagreb

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