Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2008-10-17
Mod.Phys.Lett.A24:2649-2658,2009
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
slightly improved version; 10 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected; definitions for several symbols added
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732309031971
Direct photon production in minimum bias d+Cu and d+Au and central Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at center of mass energies $\sqrt{s}=62.4$ GeV and 200GeV at RHIC is systematically investigated. We study the jet quenching effect, the medium-induced photon bremsstrahlung and jet-photon conversion in the hot QGP. We account for known cold nuclear matter effects, such as the isospin effect, the Cronin effect, shadowing and cold nuclear matter energy loss. It is shown that at high $p_T$ the nuclear modification factor for direct photons $R_{AA}^{\gamma} (p_T) < 1$ is dominated by cold nuclear matter effects and there is no evidence for large cross section amplification due to medium-induced photon bremsstrahlung and jet-photon conversion in the medium. Comparison of numerical simulations to experimental data also rules out large Cronin enhancement and incoherent photon emission in the QGP but the error bars in the current experimental data cannot provide further constraints on the magnitudes of other nuclear matter effects.
Vitev Ivan
Zhang Ben-Wei
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