High pT hadron spectra at RHIC: an overview
Abstract
Recent results on high transverse momentum (pT) hadron production in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are reviewed. Comparison of the nuclear modification factors, and , demonstrates that the large suppression in central Au+Au collisions is due to strong final-state effects. Theoretical models which incorporate jet quenching via gluon Bremsstrahlung in the dense partonic medium that is expected in central Au+Au collisions at ultra-relativistic energies are shown to reproduce the shape and magnitude of the observed suppression over the range of collision energies so far studied at RHIC.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0410033,
title = {High pT hadron spectra at RHIC: an overview},
author = {J. L. Klay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0410033},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 10 figures, Talk given at Hot Quarks 2004: Workshop for Young Scientists on the Physics of Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (HQ'04), Taos Valley, New Mexico, 18-24 Jul 2004, to be published in J. Phys. G