"Naked" Cronin effect in A+A collisions from SPS to RHIC
Abstract
Baseline computations of the Cronin effect in nuclear collisions at energies spanning the SPS and the RHIC accelerators are performed in the Glauber-Eikonal model, which ascribes the effect to initial-state incoherent multiple parton scatterings. The model accounts very well for the mid-rapidity Cronin effect in hadron-nucleus collisions in the 27-200 GeV center of mass energy range, and will be extended to nucleus-nucleus collisions. The computations are performed under the assumption that the partons do not interact with the medium produced in the collision. Therefore, medium effects such as energy loss in a Quark-Gluon Plasma may be detected and measured as deviations from the presented baseline computation of the "naked" Cronin effect.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0502033,
title = {"Naked" Cronin effect in A+A collisions from SPS to RHIC},
author = {Alberto Accardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0502033},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. Talk given at ``Hard Probes 2004'', Ericeira (Portugal), November 4-10, 2004