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K+/pi+ probes of jet quenching in AA collisions

Nuclear Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Non-abelian energy loss in quark gluon plasma is shown to lead to novel hadron ratio suppression patterns in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. We apply recent (GLV) estimates for the gluon radiative energy loss, which increases linearly with the jet energy up to E<20 GeV and depends quadratically on the nuclear radius, R. The K+/\pi+ ratio is found to be most sensitive to the initial density of the plasma.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0112062,
  title  = {K+/pi+ probes of jet quenching in AA collisions},
  author = {P. Levai and G. Papp and G. Fai and M. Gyulassy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0112062},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Presented at 6th International Conference on Strange Quarks in Matter: 2001: A Flavourspace Odyssey (SQM2001), Frankfurt, Germany, 25-29 Sep 2001