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High-p$_{T}$ Tomography of d+Au and Au+Au at SPS, RHIC, and LHC

The interplay of nuclear effects on the p_T > 2 GeV inclusive hadron spectra in d+Au and Au+Au reactions at root(s) = 17, 200, 5500 GeV is compared to leading order perturbative QCD calculations for elementary p+p (p-bar+p) collisions. The competition between nuclear shadowing, Cronin effect, and...

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Autores principales: Vitev, I, Gyulassy, M
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.252301
http://cds.cern.ch/record/581318
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Sumario:The interplay of nuclear effects on the p_T > 2 GeV inclusive hadron spectra in d+Au and Au+Au reactions at root(s) = 17, 200, 5500 GeV is compared to leading order perturbative QCD calculations for elementary p+p (p-bar+p) collisions. The competition between nuclear shadowing, Cronin effect, and jet energy loss due to medium-induced gluon radiation is predicted to lead to a striking energy dependence of the nuclear suppression/enhancement pattern in A+A reactions. We show that future d+Au data can used to disentangle the initial and final state effects.