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Neutral pion production with respect to centrality and reaction plane in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV

  • A. Adare
  • , S. Afanasiev
  • , C. Aidala
  • , N. N. Ajitanand
  • , Y. Akiba
  • , H. Al-Bataineh
  • , J. Alexander
  • , K. Aoki
  • , Y. Aramaki
  • , E. T. Atomssa
  • , R. Averbeck
  • , T. C. Awes
  • , B. Azmoun
  • , V. Babintsev
  • , M. Bai
  • , G. Baksay
  • , L. Baksay
  • , K. N. Barish
  • , B. Bassalleck
  • , A. T. Basye
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  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • UMass Amherst
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Stony Brook University
  • RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
  • Riken BNL Research Center
  • New Mexico State University
  • Kyoto University
  • University of Tokyo
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • University of California, Riverside
  • University of New Mexico
  • Abilene Christian University
  • Baruch College
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
  • University of Münster
  • Vanderbilt University
  • St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
  • Yonsei University
  • MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Columbia University
  • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
  • Lund University
  • University of Tsukuba
  • Eötvös Loránd University
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Florida State University
  • University of São Paulo
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Muhlenberg College
  • Charles University
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
  • Ohio University
  • Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
  • University of Tennessee
  • Augustana College
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ewha Womans University
  • Tsinghua University
  • Georgia State University
  • Iowa State University
  • Hiroshima University
  • Korea University
  • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • Myongji University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Rikkyo University
  • University of Jyväskylä
  • Seoul National University
  • Chonbuk National University
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • China Institute of Atomic Energy
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • Waseda University
  • University of Debrecen
  • Lahore University of Management Sciences

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Abstract

The PHENIX experiment has measured the production of π0s in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. The new data offer a fourfold increase in recorded luminosity, providing higher precision and a larger reach in transverse momentum, pT, to 20 GeV/c. The production ratio of η/π0 is 0.46±0.01(stat)±0.05(syst), constant with p T and collision centrality. The observed ratio is consistent with earlier measurements, as well as with the p+p and d+Au values. π0 are suppressed by a factor of 5, as in earlier findings. However, with the improved statistical precision a small but significant rise of the nuclear modification factor RAA vs pT, with a slope of 0.0106±0.00290. 0034 (Gev/c)-1, is discernible in central collisions. A phenomenological extraction of the average fractional parton energy loss shows a decrease with increasing pT. To study the path-length dependence of suppression, the π0 yield is measured at different angles with respect to the event plane; a strong azimuthal dependence of the π0 RAA is observed. The data are compared to theoretical models of parton energy loss as a function of the path length L in the medium. Models based on perturbative quantum chromodynamics are insufficient to describe the data, while a hybrid model utilizing pQCD for the hard interactions and anti-de-Sitter space/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) for the soft interactions is consistent with the data.

Original languageEnglish
Article number034911
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume87
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Mar 2013

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