Jet quenching as a probe of gluon plasma formation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We study, in a pQCD calculation augmented by nuclear effects, the jet energy loss needed to reproduce the pi^0 spectra in Au+Au collisions at large p_T, measured by PHENIX at RHIC. The transverse width of the parton momentum distributions (intrinsic-k_T) is used phenomenologically to obtain a reliable baseline pp result. Jet quenching is applied to the nuclear spectra (including shadowing and multiscattering) to fit the data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111211,
title = {Jet quenching as a probe of gluon plasma formation},
author = {G. Fai and G. G. Barnafoldi and M. Gyulassy and P. Levai and G. Papp and I. Vitev and Y. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111211},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Presented at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (HEP2001), Budapest, Hungary, 12-18 July 2001. 7 pages in Latex, 2 EPS figures