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Can hadronic rescattering explain the "jet quenching" at RHIC?

Nuclear Theory 2014-11-18 v1

Abstract

Recent RHIC data have shown novel nuclear modifications of moderate to high pt particle production in central Au+Au collisions, including a suppression of hadron production and a disappearance of back-to-back hadron pairs. In this paper, we investigate whether final-state hadronic interactions of the jet fragments can reproduce the RHIC data. We find that hadronic rescattering can account for the disappearance of back-to-back hadron pairs, but cannot reproduce other features of the RHIC data.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0405064,
  title  = {Can hadronic rescattering explain the "jet quenching" at RHIC?},
  author = {David Hardtke and Thomas J. Humanic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0405064},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C