Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Physical Review C
Abstract
The PHENIX experiment has measured the suppression of semi-inclusive single high-transverse-momentum π0's in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. The present understanding of this suppression is in terms of energy loss of the parent (fragmenting) parton in a dense color-charge medium. We have performed a quantitative comparison between various parton energy-loss models and our experimental data. The statistical point-to-point uncorrelated as well as correlated systematic uncertainties are taken into account in the comparison. We detail this methodology and the resulting constraint on the model parameters, such as the initial color-charge density dNg/dy, the medium transport coefficient q, or the initial energy-loss parameter ε0. We find that high-transverse-momentum π0 suppression in Au+Au collisions has sufficient precision to constrain these model-dependent parameters at the ±20-25% (one standard deviation) level. These constraints include only the experimental uncertainties, and further studies are needed to compute the corresponding theoretical uncertainties.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.77.064907
Publication Date
2008
Recommended Citation
Adare, Andrew Marshall; Baksay, Gyöngyi; Baksay, László A.; Dehmelt, Klaus; Hohlmann, Marcus; Rembeczki, S.; and PHENIX Collaboration, "Quantitative Constraints On The Transport Properties Of Hot Partonic Matter From Semi-Inclusive Single High Transverse Momentum Pion Suppression In Au+Au Collisions At √sNN = 200 GeV" (2008). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 390.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/390