Particle production in Au+Au collisions at √s_NN = 9.2 GeV at RHIC

One of the primary goals of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is to explore the QCD phase diagram, search the QCD critical point and phase boundary in the phase diagram. RHIC has planned a detailed Beam Energy Scan program mainly focusing on search of QCD critical
point. The plan is to collide ions at various center-of-mass energies so as to explore the QCD phase plane of temperature vs. baryon chemical potential. In preparation of Energy Scan program, a test run was organized at RHIC in early 2008, in which Au ions were collided at  √sNN = 9.2 GeV. This test run was designed to test the capabilities of both the collider and experiments to operate and take data below the designed injection energies. In this test run, the STAR experiment collected about 3000 good events during few hours of data taking. In this talk, we present results from this small data set, and in the process, demonstrate RHIC's and STAR experiment's readiness for the planned Beam Energy Scan program. We will discuss results from identified transverse momentum spectra, azimuthal anisotropy parameters (v1 and v2), and pion interferometry measurements. These results will also be compared with those from other beam energies and various theoretical models. Finally, we will give a brief outlook of STAR's proposed plan for the Beam Energy Scan at RHIC.