Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Physical Review C
Abstract
Measurements of the fractional momentum loss (Sloss ≡ δpT/pT) of high-transverse-momentum-identified hadrons in heavy-ion collisions are presented. Using π⁰ in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at √sNN=62.4 and 200 GeV measured by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and and charged hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions measured by the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, we studied the scaling properties of Sloss as a function of a number of variables: the number of participants, Npart, the number of quark participants, Nqp, the charged-particle density, dNch/dη, and the Bjorken energy density times the equilibration time, ᵋᵦjτ₀. We find that the pT, where Sloss has its maximum, varies both with centrality and collision energy. Above the maximum, Sloss tends to follow a power-law function with all four scaling variables. The data at √sNN=200 GeV and 2.76 TeV, for sufficiently high particle densities, have a common scaling of Sloss with dNch/dη and ᵋᵦjτ₀, lending insight into the physics of parton energy loss.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.93.024911
Publication Date
2016
Recommended Citation
Adare, Andrew Marshall; Baksay, Gyöngyi; Baksay, László A.; Dehmelt, Klaus; Hohlmann, Marcus; Rembeczki, S.; and PHENIX Collaboration, "Scaling Properties Of Fractional Momentum Loss Of High- pT Hadrons In Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions At √sNN From 62.4 GeV to 2.76 TeV" (2016). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 451.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/451