Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-05-08
J.Phys.G35:104121,2008
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
Proceedings of Quark Matter 2008, 5 pages, 4 figures Subjects: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
Scientific paper
10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104121
Jet tomography, the study of differential energy loss of hard scattered partons to infer the density profile of the medium, is greatly improved by precise knowledge of the initial energy of the hard probe. As photons are not strongly interacting, the momentum of the recoil jet from a direct photon trigger is balanced, to a good approximation, by the momentum of the photon. The energy loss of the away-side jet may be viewed as an effective modification of the fragmentation function. Direct photon-hadron correlations in A+A collisions should be sensitive to modified jet fragmentation as well as to medium response effects. Complementary measurements from p+p collisions are necessary to benchmark jet fragmentation expectations at \sqrt{s_NN} = 200 GeV as well as to constrain perturbative calculations in the \gamma+jet channel. Here we present new results from p+p and Au+Au collisions which use a statistical method to subtract the background from decay photons.
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