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We perform a quantitative analysis of the nuclear modification factor in deuteron--gold collisions R(dAu) within the Color Glass Condensate approach, and compare our results with the recent data from RHIC experiments. Our model leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 Dmitri Kharzeev , Yuri V. Kovchegov , Kirill Tuchin

Centrality-dependent measurements of hadron and jet cross section attenuation in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei can shed new light on the physics of final-state interactions in the nuclear matter, including the path-length dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-28 Hai Tao Li , Ze Long Liu , Ivan Vitev

The charged hadron spectra in $p$+Pb and $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=\sqrt{s}=5.02$TeV are measured with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The measurements are performed with $p$+Pb data recorded in 2013 with an integrated luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-07 Petr Balek

High-energy partons lose energy while propagating through the hot, strongly interacting medium produced in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, leading to a suppression of particle production at high transverse momentum…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-02-27 CMS Collaboration

Minimum-bias fragment distributions (FDs) are calculated by folding a power-law parton energy spectrum with parametrized fragmentation functions (FFs) derived from $e^+$-$e^-$ and p-\=p collisions. Changes in FFs due to parton "energy loss"…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-06 Thomas A. Trainor

We perform a comprehensive study of partonic energy loss reflected in the nuclear modification factors of charged particles and jets measured in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV in wide transverse momentum ($p_{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-14 Prashant Shukla , Kapil Saraswat

We study the effect of the nucleon meson cloud on centrality dependence of the jet nuclear modification factor $R_{pA}$. We find that the meson-baryon Fock components may lead to a noticeable deviation of $R_{pA}$ from unity. Our results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 B. G. Zakharov

The study of inclusive charged-particle production in heavy-ion collisions provides insights into the density of the medium and the energy-loss mechanisms. The observed suppression of high-$\textit{p}_\text{T}$ yield is generally attributed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-09-26 Julius Gronefeld

Effects of strangeness on nuclear modification in d-Au and Au-Au collisions at 200 GeV are studied, in order to quantify the effects of quark content and mass. Measurements of ratios of the yields in central collisions to the yields in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmitri Kotchetkov

A simple statistical model in terms of light-front kinematic variables is used to explain the nuclear EMC effect in the range $x \in [0.2,~0.7]$, which was constructed by us previously to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

Nuclear medium effects on B$^+$ meson production are studied using the binary-collision scaled cross section ratio between events of different charged-particle multiplicities from proton-lead collisions. Data, collected by the CMS…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-03-25 CMS Collaboration

Collinear factorized perturbative QCD model predictions are compared for p+Pb at 4.4A TeV to test nuclear shadowing of parton distribution at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The nuclear modification factor (NMF), R_{pPb}(y=0,p_T<20 GeV/c)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 G. G. Barnafoldi , J. Barrette , M. Gyulassy , P. Levai , V. Topor Pop

After a short summary of the predictions of the Parton Quenching Model (PQM) for the nuclear modification factor and its centrality dependence in Au-Au collisions at RHIC, we concentrate on back-to-back jet-like correlations at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Dainese , Constantin Loizides , Guy Paic

Identified mid-rapidity particle spectra of $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, and $p(\bar{p})$ from 200 GeV p+p and d+Au collisions are reported. This data were taken in 2003 run from the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) experiment. A time-of-flight…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Lijuan Ruan

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

We investigate the effect of the so-called anomalous baryon/meson enhancement to the nuclear modification factor of non-photonic electrons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV. It is demonstrated that an enhancement of the charm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Martinez-Garcia , S. Gadrat , P. Crochet

In this paper, dedicated to the memory of the late Prof. Jean Cleymans, the nuclear modification factors, $R_{xA}$, are investigated for pion production in small system collisions, measured by PHENIX experiment at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-19 L. S. Moriggi , M. V. T. Machado

In this work, we expand the scope of the JETSCAPE framework to investigate the dependence of the jet nuclear modification factor, ${R_{AA}}$, on the jet radius parameter ($R$) for broader area jet cones, going all the way up to $R$ = 1.0.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Manaswini Priyadarshini , Om Shahi , Vaishnavi Sathe , Prabhakar Palni

Hard components of $p_t$ spectra can be identified with minimum-bias parton fragmentation in nuclear collisions. Minimum-bias fragment distributions (FDs) can be calculated by folding a power-law parton energy spectrum with parametrized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Thomas A. Trainor

The transverse momentum spectra of hadrons is calculated from the unintegrated gluon distribution (UGD) within the $k_T$-factorization framework at small $x$. Starting from $pp$ collisions, the modification caused by the nuclear medium is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 L. S. Moriggi , G. M. Peccini , M. V. T. Machado