1. Medium effects on high $p_{\rm T}$ particle production measured with the PHENIX experiment
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Adler, S.S., Afanasiev, S., Aidala, C., Ajitanand, N.N., Akiba, Y., Al-Jamel, A., Alexander, J., Alley, G., Amirikas, R., Aoki, K., Aphecetche, Laurent, Archuleta, J.B., Archuleta, J.R., Armendariz, R., Armijo, V., Aronson, S.H., Averbeck, R., Awes, T.C., Azmoun, R., Babintsev, V., Baldisseri, A., Barish, K.N., Barnes, P.D., Bassalleck, B., Bathe, S., Batsouli, S., Baublis, V., Bauer, F., Bazilevsky, A., Belikov, S., Berdnikov, Y., Bhagavatula, S., Bjorndal, M.T., Bobrek, M., Boissevain, J.G., Boose, S., Borel, H., Borenstein, S., Britton Jr., C.L., Brooks, M.L., Brown, D.S., Brun, N., Bruner, N., Bryan, W.L., Bucher, D., Buesching, H., Bumazhnov, V., Bunce, G., Burward-Hoy, J.M., Butsyk, S., Cafferty, M.M., Camard, X., Chai, J.-S., Chand, P., Chang, W.C., Chappell, R.B., Chernichenko, S., Chevel, A., Chi, C.Y., Chiba, J., Chiu, M., Choi, I.J., Choi, J., Chollet, S., Choudhury, R.K., Chujo, T., Cianciolo, V., Clark, D., Cobigo, Y., Cole, B.A., Comets, M.P., Constantin, P., Csanad, M., Csorgo, T., Cunitz, H., Cussonneau, Jean-Pierre, D'Enterria, D.G., Das, K., David, G., Deak, F., Debraine, A., Delagrange, H., Denisov, A., Deshpande, A., Desmond, E.J., Devismes, A., Dietzsch, O., Drachenberg, J.L., Drapier, O., Drees, A., Drees, K.A., Durietz, R., Durum, A., Dutta, D., Dzhordzhadze, V., Echave, M.A., Efremenko, Y.V., Elchenawi, K., Emery, M.S., Enokizono, A., Enyo, H., Ericson, M.N., Espagnon, B., Esumi, S., Evseev, V., Ewell, L., Fields, D.E., Finck, C., Fleuret, F., Fokin, S.L., Fox, B.D., Fraenkel, Z., Frank, S.S., Frantz, J.E., Franz, A., Frawley, A.D., Fried, J., Fukao, Y., Fung, S.-Y., Gadrat, S., Gannon, J., Garpman, S., Gastaldi, F., Gee, T.F., Germain, Marie, Ghosh, T.K., Giannotti, P., Glenn, A., Gogiberidze, G., Gonin, M., Gosset, J., Goto, Y., Granier De Cassagnac, R., Grau, N., Greene, S.V., Grosse Perdekamp, M., Guryn, W., Gustafsson, H.-A., Hachiya, T., Haggerty, J.S., Hahn, S.F., Hamagaki, H., Hansen, A.G., Harder, J., Hart, G.W., Hartouni, E.P., Harvey, M., Hasuko, K., Hayano, R., Hayashi, N., He, X., Heffner, M., Heine, N., Hemmick, T.K., Heuser, J.M., Hibino, M., Hicks, J.S., Hidas, P., Hiejima, H., Hill, J.C., Hobbs, R., Holzmann, W., Homma, K., Hong, B., Hoover, A., Horaguchi, T., Hutchins, J.R., Hutter, R., Ichihara, T., Ikonnikov, V.V., Imai, K., Inaba, M., Inuzuka, M., Isenhower, D., Isenhower, L., Ishihara, M., Issah, M., Isupov, A., Jacak, B.V., Jagadish, U., Jang, W.Y., Jeong, Y., Jia, J., Jinnouchi, O., Johnson, B.M., Johnson, S.C., Jones Jr., J.P., Joo, K.S., Jouan, D., Kahn, S., Kajihara, F., Kametani, S., Kamihara, N., Kandasamy, A., Kaneta, M., Kang, J.H., Kann, M., Kapoor, S.S., Karadjev, K.V., Karar, A., Kato, S., Katou, K., Kawabata, T., Kazantsev, A., Kelley, M.A., Kelly, Steven, Khachaturov, B., Khanzadeev, A., Kikuchi, J., Kim, D.H., Kim, D.J., Kim, D.W., Kim, E., Kim, G.-B., Kim, H.J., Kinney, E., Kiss, A., Kistenev, E., Kiyomichi, A., Kiyoyama, K., Klein-Boesing, C., Kobayashi, H., Kochenda, L., Kochetkov, V., Koehler, D., Kohama, T., Kohara, R., Komkov, B., Konno, M., Kopytine, M., Kotchetkov, D., Kozlov, A., Kozlov, V., Kravtsov, P., Kroon, P.J., Kuberg, C.H., Kunde, G.J., Kuriatkov, V., Kurita, K., Kuroki, Y., Kweon, M.J., Kwon, Y., Kyle, G.S., Lacey, R., Ladygin, V., Lajoie, J.G., Le Bornec, Y., Lebedev, A., Lebedev, V.A., Leckey, S., Lee, D.M., Lee, S., Leitch, M.J., Leite, M.A.L., Li, X.H., Lim, H., Litvinenko, A., Liu, M.X., Liu, Yehan, Lopez, J.D., Maguire, C.F., Makdisi, Y.I., Malakhov, A., Manko, V.I., Mao, Y., Marek, L.J., Martinez Garcia, Gines, Marx, M.D., Masui, H., Matathias, F., Matsumoto, T., McCain, M.C., McGaughey, P.L., McKay, R., Melnikov, E., Messer, F., Miake, Y., Miftakhov, N., Milan, J., Miller, T.E., Milov, A., Mioduszewski, S., Mischke, R.E., Mishra, G.C., Mitchell, J.T., Mohanty, A.K., Montoya, B.C., Moore, J.A., Morrison, D.P., Moss, J.M., Muehlbacher, F., Mukhopadhyay, D., Muniruzzaman, M., Murata, J., Nagamiya, S., Nagle, J.L., Nakamura, T., Nandi, B.K., Nara, M., Newby, J., Nikolaev, S.A., Nilsson, P., Nyanin, A.S., Nystrand, J., O'Brien, E., Ogilvie, C.A., Ohnishi, H., Ojha, I.D., Okada, H., Okada, K., Ono, M., Onuchin, V., Oskarsson, A., Otterlund, I., Oyama, K., Ozawa, K., Pal, D., Palounek, A.P.T., Pancake, C., Pantuev, V.S., Papavassiliou, V., Park, J., Park, W.J., Parmar, A., Pate, S.F., Pearson, C., Pei, H., Peitzmann, T., Penev, V., Peng, J.-C., Pereira, H., Peresedov, V., Pierson, A., Pinkenburg, C., Pisani, R.P., Plasil, F., Prigl, R., Puill, G., Purschke, M.L., Purwar, A.K., Qualls, J.M., Rak, J., Rankowitz, S., Ravinovich, I., Read, K.F., Reuter, M., Reygers, K., Riabov, V., Riabov, Y., Robinson, S.H., Roche, G., Romana, A., Rosati, M., Roschin, E., Rosendahl, S.S.E., Rosnet, P., Ruggiero, R., Rumpf, M., Rykov, V.L., Ryu, S.S., Sadler, M.E., Saito, N., Sakaguchi, T., Sakai, M., Sakai, S., Samsonov, V., Sanfratello, L., Santo, R., Sato, H.D., Sato, S., Sawada, S., Schutz, Y., Semenov, V., Seto, R., Shaw, M.R., Shea, T.K., Shein, I., Shibata, T.-A., Shigaki, K., Shiina, T., Shimomura, M., Sickles, A., Silva, C.L., Silvermyr, D., Sim, K.S., Singh, C.P., Singh, V., Sippach, F.W., Sivertz, M., Skank, H.D., Sleege, G.A., Smith, D.E., Smith, G., Smith, M.C., Soldatov, A., Soltz, R.A., Sondheim, W.E., Sorensen, S.P., Sourikova, I.V., Staley, F., Stankus, P.W., Stenlund, E., Stepanov, M., Ster, A., Stoll, S.P., Sugitate, T., Sullivan, J.P., Takagi, S., Takagui, E.M., Taketani, A., Tamai, M., Tanaka, K.H., Tanaka, Y., Tanida, K., Tannenbaum, M.J., Tarakanov, V., Taranenko, A., Tarjan, P., Tepe, J.D., Thomas, T.L., Togawa, M., Tojo, J., Torii, H., Towell, R.S., Tram, V.-N., Trofimov, V., Tserruya, I., Tsuchimoto, Y., Tsuruoka, H., Tuli, S.K., Tydesjo, H., Tyurin, N., Uam, T.J., Van Hecke, H.W., Vasiliev, A.A., Vassent, M., Velkovska, J., Velkovsky, M., Verhoeven, W., Veszpremi, V., Villatte, L., Vinogradov, A.A., Volkov, M.A., Vznuzdaev, E., Wang, X.R., Watanabe, Y., White, S.N., Whitus, B.R., Willis, N., Wintenberg, A.L., Wohn, F.K., Woody, C.L., Xie, W., Yang, Y., Yanovich, A., Yokkaichi, S., Young, G.R., Yushmanov, I.E., Zajc, W.A., Zhang, C., Zhang, L., Zhou, S., Zhou, S.J., Zimanyi, J., Zolin, L., Zong, X., Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), C. Lourenco, H. Satz, PHENIX, Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Hadron ,Elementary particle ,01 natural sciences ,Spectral line ,25.75.Dw ,0103 physical sciences ,Transverse momentum ,[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] ,Particle ,Production (computer science) ,Overlap function ,Atomic physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Engineering (miscellaneous) - Abstract
Transverse momentum (\(p_{\rm T}\)) spectra measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC in Au + Au, d + Au and pp collisions at \(\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 200 \mathrm{GeV}\) and in Au + Au collisions at \(\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 62.4 \mathrm{GeV}\) are presented. A suppression of the yield of high \(p_{\rm T}\) hadrons in central Au + Au collisions by a factor 4-5 at \( p_{{\text{T}}} > 5 \) is found relative to the pp reference scaled by the nuclear overlap function \(\langle T_\mathrm{AB} \rangle\). In contrast, direct photons are not suppressed in central Au + Au collisions and no suppression of high \(p_{\rm T}\) particles can be seen in d + Au collisions. This leads to the conclusion that the dense medium formed in central Au + Au collisions is responsible for the suppression.
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