Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-10-15
Phys.Lett.B672:30-34,2009
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. B
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.01.005
We present empirical features of parton energy loss in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC through studies of the spectra and nuclear modification factors ($R_{AA}$) for charged hadrons, neutral pions ($\pi^0$) and non-photonic electrons. The flat distribution of $R_{AA}$ at high transverse momentum ($p_{T}$) for a given collision centrality is consistent with a scenario where parton energy loss $\Delta p_{T}$ is proportional to $p_{T}$. The centrality dependence of the parton energy loss indicates the absence of path length dependence in the magnitude of energy loss. The lack of strong path length dependence suggests a dynamical picture where the dense partonic medium undergoes rapid expansion and the density of the medium falls rapidly in the first a few Fermi interval, which may be much shorter than the full path length. Implications of the empirical constraints on the parton energy loss will also be discussed.
Huang Huan Zhong
Wang Gang
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