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Suppression of the high $p_T$ charged hadron $R_{AA}$ at the LHC

We present a parameter free postdiction of the high-$p_T$ charged-hadron nuclear modification factor ($R_{AA}$) in two centralities, measured by the CMS collaboration in $Pb$-$Pb$ collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 A. Majumder , C. Shen

Nuclear modification factor for light and heavy flavors within pQCD and recent data from the LHC

We examine the flavor dependence of the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ in the pQCD calculations at LHC energies. The computations are performed accounting for radiative and collisional parton energy loss with running coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 B. G. Zakharov

Cold Nuclear Modifications at RHIC and LHC

We use recent nuclear parton distributions, among them the Hirai--Kumano--Nagai (HKN) and Eskola--Paukkunen--Salgado (EPS08) parameterizations, in our pQCD-improved parton model to calculate the nuclear modification factor, R_{AA'}(p_T), at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-23 G. G. Barnaföldi , G. Fai , P. Lévai , B. A. Cole , G. Papp

The Nuclear Suppression Factor for P_T increasing towards the Kinematic Limit

The suppression of high transverse momentum P_T hadron production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion (A-A) collisions as compared to the scaled expectation from proton-proton (p-p) collisions expressed as the nuclear modification factor R_AA is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Thorsten Renk

The Nuclear Modification Factor at Large Rapidities

RHIC data on high-$p_T$ hadron production display strong suppression in a wide rapidity region, indicating strong induced energy loss for both transversally and longitudinally traveling partons. We investigate the interplay of energy loss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. G. Barnafoldi , P. Levai , G. Papp , G. Fai

The Fragility of High-pT Hadron Spectra as a Hard Probe

We study the suppression of high-pT hadron spectra in nuclear collisions, supplementing the perturbative QCD factorized formalism with radiative parton energy loss. We find that the nuclear modification factor which quantifies the degree of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. J. Eskola , H. Honkanen , C. A. Salgado , U. A. Wiedemann

Charged hadron R_AA as a function of p_T at the LHC

We compute the nuclear suppression factor R_AA for charged hadrons within a radiative energy loss picture using a hydrodynamical evolution to describe the soft medium inducing energy loss. A minijet + saturation picture provides initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Thorsten Renk , Kari J. Eskola

Quantifying jet transport properties via large $p_T$ hadron production

Nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ for large $p_T$ single hadron is studied in a next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) parton model with medium-modified fragmentation functions (mFFs) due to jet quenching in high-energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Zhi-Quan Liu , Hanzhong Zhang , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

Contrasting Features of Parton Energy Loss in Heavy-ion Collisions at RHIC and the LHC

Energetic quarks and gluons lose energy as they traverse the hot and dense medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-24 Thomas Marshall , Philip Suh , Gang Wang , Huan Zhong Huang

Quenching of light hadrons at RHIC in a collisional energy loss scenario

We evaluate the nuclear suppression factor, $R_{AA}(p_T)$ for light hadrons by taking into account the collisional energy loss. We show that in the measured $p_T$ domain of RHIC the elastic process is the dominant mechanism for the partonic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pradip Roy , Jan-e Alam , Abhee K. Dutt-Mazumder

Nuclear modification factor of non-photonic electrons in heavy-ion collisions and the heavy-flavor baryon-to-meson ratio

The nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ of non-photonic electrons in ${Au} + {Au}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}^{}} = 200$ GeV is studied by considering the decays of heavy-flavor hadrons produced in a quark coalescence model. Although an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Yongseok Oh , Che Ming Ko

Nuclear-modification factor of charged hadrons at forward and backward rapidity in $p$$+$Al and $p$$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$ GeV

The PHENIX experiment has studied nuclear effects in $p$$+$Al and $p$$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$ GeV on charged hadron production at forward rapidity ($1.4<\eta<2.4$, $p$-going direction) and backward rapidity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-03-25 C. Aidala , Y. Akiba , M. Alfred , V. Andrieux , N. Apadula , H. Asano , B. Azmoun , V. Babintsev , N. S. Bandara , K. N. Barish , S. Bathe , A. Bazilevsky , M. Beaumier , R. Belmont , A. Berdnikov , Y. Berdnikov , D. S. Blau , J. S. Bok , M. L. Brooks , J. Bryslawskyj , V. Bumazhnov , S. Campbell , V. Canoa Roman , R. Cervantes , C. Y. Chi , M. Chiu , I. J. Choi , J. B. Choi , Z. Citron , M. Connors , N. Cronin , M. Csanád , T. Csörgő , T. W. Danley , M. S. Daugherity , G. David , K. DeBlasio , K. Dehmelt , A. Denisov , A. Deshpande , E. J. Desmond , A. Dion , D. Dixit , J. H. Do , A. Drees , K. A. Drees , J. M. Durham , A. Durum , A. Enokizono , H. En'yo , S. Esumi , B. Fadem , W. Fan , N. Feege , D. E. Fields , M. Finger , M. Finger, , S. L. Fokin , J. E. Frantz , A. Franz , A. D. Frawley , Y. Fukuda , C. Gal , P. Gallus , E. A. Gamez , P. Garg , H. Ge , F. Giordano , Y. Goto , N. Grau , S. V. Greene , M. Grosse Perdekamp , T. Gunji , H. Guragain , T. Hachiya , J. S. Haggerty , K. I. Hahn , H. Hamagaki , H. F. Hamilton , S. Y. Han , J. Hanks , S. Hasegawa , T. O. S. Haseler , X. He , T. K. Hemmick , J. C. Hill , K. Hill , A. Hodges , R. S. Hollis , K. Homma , B. Hong , T. Hoshino , N. Hotvedt , J. Huang , S. Huang , K. Imai , M. Inaba , A. Iordanova , D. Isenhower , S. Ishimaru , D. Ivanishchev , B. V. Jacak , M. Jezghani , Z. Ji , X. Jiang , B. M. Johnson , D. Jouan , D. S. Jumper , J. H. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , S. Karthas , D. Kawall , A. V. Kazantsev , V. Khachatryan , A. Khanzadeev , A. Khatiwada , C. Kim , E. -J. Kim , M. Kim , D. Kincses , E. Kistenev , J. Klatsky , P. Kline , T. Koblesky , D. Kotov , S. Kudo , B. Kurgyis , K. Kurita , Y. Kwon , J. G. Lajoie , A. Lebedev , S. Lee , S. H. Lee , M. J. Leitch , Y. H. Leung , N. A. Lewis , X. Li , S. H. Lim , M. X. Liu , V. -R. Loggins , S. Lökös , K. Lovasz , D. Lynch , T. Majoros , Y. I. Makdisi , M. Makek , V. I. Manko , E. Mannel , M. McCumber , P. L. McGaughey , D. McGlinchey , C. McKinney , M. Mendoza , W. J. Metzger , A. C. Mignerey , A. Milov , D. K. Mishra , J. T. Mitchell , Iu. Mitrankov , G. Mitsuka , S. Miyasaka , S. Mizuno , P. Montuenga , T. Moon , D. P. Morrison , S. I. Morrow , T. Murakami , J. Murata , K. Nagai , K. Nagashima , T. Nagashima , J. L. Nagle , M. I. Nagy , I. Nakagawa , K. Nakano , C. Nattrass , S. Nelson , T. Niida , R. Nishitani , R. Nouicer , T. Novák , N. Novitzky , A. S. Nyanin , E. O'Brien , C. A. Ogilvie , J. D. Orjuela Koop , J. D. Osborn , A. Oskarsson , G. J. Ottino , K. Ozawa , V. Pantuev , V. Papavassiliou , J. S. Park , S. Park , S. F. Pate , M. Patel , W. Peng , D. V. Perepelitsa , G. D. N. Perera , D. Yu. Peressounko , C. E. PerezLara , J. Perry , R. Petti , M. Phipps , C. Pinkenburg , R. P. Pisani , A. Pun , M. L. Purschke , P. V. Radzevich , K. F. Read , D. Reynolds , V. Riabov , Y. Riabov , D. Richford , T. Rinn , S. D. Rolnick , M. Rosati , Z. Rowan , J. Runchey , A. S. Safonov , T. Sakaguchi , H. Sako , V. Samsonov , M. Sarsour , S. Sato , C. Y. Scarlett , B. Schaefer , B. K. Schmoll , K. Sedgwick , R. Seidl , A. Sen , R. Seto , A. Sexton , D. Sharma , I. Shein , T. -A. Shibata , K. Shigaki , M. Shimomura , T. Shioya , P. Shukla , A. Sickles , C. L. Silva , D. Silvermyr , B. K. Singh , C. P. Singh , V. Singh , M. J. Skoby , M. Slunečka , K. L. Smith , M. Snowball , R. A. Soltz , W. E. Sondheim , S. P. Sorensen , I. V. Sourikova , P. W. Stankus , S. P. Stoll , T. Sugitate , A. Sukhanov , T. Sumita , J. Sun , Z. Sun , S. Suzuki , J. Sziklai , K. Tanida , M. J. Tannenbaum , S. Tarafdar , A. Taranenko , G. Tarnai , R. Tieulent , A. Timilsina , T. Todoroki , M. Tomášek , C. L. Towell , R. S. Towell , I. Tserruya , Y. Ueda , B. Ujvari , H. W. van Hecke , J. Velkovska , M. Virius , V. Vrba , N. Vukman , X. R. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. S. Watanabe , C. P. Wong , C. L. Woody , C. Xu , Q. Xu , L. Xue , S. Yalcin , Y. L. Yamaguchi , H. Yamamoto , A. Yanovich , J. H. Yoo , I. Yoon , H. Yu , I. E. Yushmanov , W. A. Zajc , A. Zelenski , Y. Zhai , S. Zharko , L. Zou

Nuclear-Modification Factor for Open-Heavy-Flavor Production at Forward Rapidity in Cu+Cu Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

Background: Heavy-flavor production in p+p collisions tests perturbative-quantum-chromodynamics (pQCD) calculations. Modification of heavy-flavor production in heavy-ion collisions relative to binary-collision scaling from p+p results,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Adare , S. Afanasiev , C. Aidala , N. N. Ajitanand , Y. Akiba , H. Al-Bataineh , J. Alexander , K. Aoki , L. Aphecetche , R. Armendariz , S. H. Aronson , J. Asai , E. T. Atomssa , R. Averbeck , T. C. Awes , B. Azmoun , V. Babintsev , G. Baksay , L. Baksay , A. Baldisseri , K. N. Barish , P. D. Barnes , B. Bassalleck , S. Bathe , S. Batsouli , V. Baublis , A. Bazilevsky , S. Belikov , R. Bennett , Y. Berdnikov , A. A. Bickley , J. G. Boissevain , H. Borel , K. Boyle , M. L. Brooks , H. Buesching , V. Bumazhnov , G. Bunce , S. Butsyk , S. Campbell , B. S. Chang , J. -L. Charvet , S. Chernichenko , C. Y. Chi , J. Chiba , M. Chiu , I. J. Choi , T. Chujo , P. Chung , A. Churyn , V. Cianciolo , C. R. Cleven , B. A. Cole , M. P. Comets , P. Constantin , M. Csanád , T. Csörgő , T. Dahms , K. Das , G. David , M. B. Deaton , K. Dehmelt , H. Delagrange , A. Denisov , D. d'Enterria , A. Deshpande , E. J. Desmond , O. Dietzsch , A. Dion , M. Donadelli , O. Drapier , A. Drees , A. K. Dubey , A. Durum , V. Dzhordzhadze , Y. V. Efremenko , J. Egdemir , F. Ellinghaus , W. S. Emam , A. Enokizono , H. En'yo , S. Esumi , K. O. Eyser , D. E. Fields , M. Finger , M. Finger, , F. Fleuret , S. L. Fokin , Z. Fraenkel , J. E. Frantz , A. Franz , A. D. Frawley , K. Fujiwara , Y. Fukao , T. Fusayasu , S. Gadrat , I. Garishvili , A. Glenn , H. Gong , M. Gonin , J. Gosset , Y. Goto , R. Granier de Cassagnac , N. Grau , S. V. Greene , M. Grosse Perdekamp , T. Gunji , H. -Å. Gustafsson , T. Hachiya , A. Hadj Henni , C. Haegemann , J. S. Haggerty , H. Hamagaki , R. Han , H. Harada , E. P. Hartouni , K. Haruna , E. Haslum , R. Hayano , X. He , M. Heffner , T. K. Hemmick , T. Hester , H. Hiejima , J. C. Hill , R. Hobbs , M. Hohlmann , W. Holzmann , K. Homma , B. Hong , T. Horaguchi , D. Hornback , T. Ichihara , H. Iinuma , K. Imai , M. Inaba , Y. Inoue , D. Isenhower , L. Isenhower , M. Ishihara , T. Isobe , M. Issah , A. Isupov , B. V. 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Younus , I. E. Yushmanov , W. A. Zajc , O. Zaudtke , C. Zhang , S. Zhou , J. Zimányi , L. Zolin

Variation of jet quenching from RHIC to LHC and thermal suppression of QCD coupling constant

We perform a joint jet tomographic analysis of the data on the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ from PHENIX at RHIC and ALICE at LHC. The computations are performed accounting for radiative and collisional parton energy loss with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 B. G. Zakharov

Energy Loss of Leading Hadrons and Direct Photon production in Evolving Quark-Gluon Plasma

We calculate the nuclear modification factor of neutral pions and the photon yield at high p_T in central Au-Au collisions at RHIC (\sqrt{s}=200 GeV) and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC (\sqrt{s}=5500 GeV). A leading-order accurate treatment of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Simon Turbide , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon , Guy D. Moore

Where Does the Energy Loss Lose Strength?

Nuclear modification factors for pion production in AuAu and CuCu collisions are analyzed at very high transverse momenta. At p_T > 10 GeV/c, the R_{AA}(p_T) is determined mostly by the initial state nuclear modifications (e.g. EMC effect)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-07 G. G. Barnafoldi , G. Fai , P. Levai , G. Papp , B. A. Cole

High pT Suppression in CuCu Collsions at 200 GeV/NN at RHIC

Collisions between hadronic systems at relativistic energies provide a window on the small-x gluon distributions of fast moving nuclei. It has been predicted that gluon saturation effects will manifest themselves as a suppression in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-12-13 Selemon Bekele

Forward hadron production in high energy pA collisions: from RHIC to LHC

We present a calculation of Pi, D and B mesons production at RHIC and LHC energies based upon the KKT model of gluon saturation. We discuss dependence of the nuclear modification factor on rapidity and transverse momentum.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kirill Tuchin

Evolution of the nuclear modification factors with rapidity and centrality in d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV

We report on a study of the transverse momentum dependence of nuclear modification factors $R_{dAu}$ for charged hadrons produced in deuteron + gold collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 200$GeV, as a function of collision centrality and of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-18 I. Arsene

Quantifying a Possibly Reduced Jet-Medium Coupling of the sQGP at the LHC

The nuclear modification factor R_{AA} measured in Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) suggests that the jet-medium coupling in a Quark-Gluon Plasma at LHC energies is reduced as compared to energies reached at the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Barbara Betz , Miklos Gyulassy