Suppression of hadrons with large transverse momentum in central Au+Au collisions at root square[s(NN)] = 130 GeV

K Adcox; S S Adler; N N Ajitanand; Y Akiba; J Alexander; L Aphecetche; Y Arai; S H Aronson; R Averbeck; T C Awes; K N Barish; P D Barnes; J Barrette; B Bassalleck; S Bathe; V Baublis; A Bazilevsky; S Belikov; F G Bellaiche; S T Belyaev; M J Bennett; Y Berdnikov; S Botelho; M L Brooks; D S Brown; N Bruner; D Bucher; H Buesching; V Bumazhnov; G Bunce; J Burward-Hoy; S Butsyk; T A Carey; P Chand; J Chang; W C Chang; L L Chavez; S Chernichenko; C Y Chi; J Chiba; M Chiu; R K Choudhury; T Christ; T Chujo; M S Chung; P Chung; V Cianciolo; B A Cole; D G D'Enterria; G David; H Delagrange; A Denisov; A Deshpande; E J Desmond; O Dietzsch; B V Dinesh; A Drees; A Durum; D Dutta; K Ebisu; Y V Efremenko; K El Chenawi; H En'yo; S Esumi; L Ewell; T Ferdousi; D E Fields; S L Fokin; Z Fraenkel; A Franz; A D Frawley; S-Y Fung; S Garpman; T K Ghosh; A Glenn; A L Godoi; Y Goto; S V Greene; M Grosse Perdekamp; S K Gupta; W Guryn; H-A Gustafsson; J S Haggerty; H Hamagaki; A G Hansen; H Hara; E P Hartouni; R Hayano; N Hayashi; X He; T K Hemmick; J M Heuser; M Hibino; J C Hill; D S Ho; K Homma; B Hong; A Hoover; T Ichihara; K Imai; M S Ippolitov; M Ishihara; B V Jacak; W Y Jang; J Jia; B M Johnson; S C Johnson; K S Joo; S Kametani; J H Kang; M Kann; S S Kapoor; S Kelly; B Khachaturov; A Khanzadeev; J Kikuchi; D J Kim; H J Kim; S Y Kim; Y G Kim; W W Kinnison; E Kistenev; A Kiyomichi; C Klein-Boesing; S Klinksiek; L Kochenda; V Kochetkov; D Koehler; T Kohama; D Kotchetkov; A Kozlov; P J Kroon; K Kurita; M J Kweon; Y Kwon; G S Kyle; R Lacey; J G Lajoie; J Lauret; A Lebedev; D M Lee; M J Leitch; X H Li; Z Li; D J Lim; M X Liu; X Liu; Z Liu; C F Maguire; J Mahon; Y I Makdisi; V I Manko; Y Mao; S K Mark; S Markacs; G Martinez; M D Marx; A Masaike; F Matathias; T Matsumoto; P L McGaughey; E Melnikov; M Merschmeyer; F Messer; M Messer; Y Miake; T E Miller; A Milov; S Mioduszewski; R E Mischke; G C Mishra; J T Mitchell; A K Mohanty; D P Morrison; J M Moss; F Mühlbacher; M Muniruzzaman; J Murata; S Nagamiya; Y Nagasaka; J L Nagle; Y Nakada; B K Nandi; J Newby; L Nikkinen; P Nilsson; S Nishimura; A S Nyanin; J Nystrand; E O'Brien; C A Ogilvie; H Ohnishi; I D Ojha; M Ono; V Onuchin; A Oskarsson; L Osterman; I Otterlund; K Oyama; L Paffrath; A P T Palounek; V S Pantuev; V Papavassiliou; S F Pate; T Peitzmann; A N Petridis; C Pinkenburg; R P Pisani; P Pitukhin; F Plasil; M Pollack; K Pope; M L Purschke; I Ravinovich; K F Read; K Reygers; V Riabov; Y Riabov; M Rosati; A A Rose; S S Ryu; N Saito; A Sakaguchi; T Sakaguchi; H Sako; T Sakuma; V Samsonov; T C Sangster; R Santo; H D Sato; S Sato; S Sawada; B R Schlei; Y Schutz; V Semenov; R Seto; T K Shea; I Shein; T-A Shibata; K Shigaki; T Shiina; Y H Shin; I G Sibiriak; D Silvermyr; K S Sim; J Simon-Gillo; C P Singh; V Singh; M Sivertz; A Soldatov; R A Soltz; S Sorensen; P W Stankus; N Starinsky; P Steinberg; E Stenlund; A Ster; S P Stoll; M Sugioka; T Sugitate; J P Sullivan; Y Sumi; Z Sun; M Suzuki; E M Takagui; A Taketani; M Tamai; K H Tanaka; Y Tanaka; E Taniguchi; M J Tannenbaum; J Thomas; J H Thomas; T L Thomas; W Tian; J Tojo; H Torii; R S Towell; I Tserruya; H Tsuruoka; A A Tsvetkov; S K Tuli; H Tydesjö; N Tyurin; T Ushiroda; H W van Hecke; C Velissaris; J Velkovska; M Velkovsky; A A Vinogradov; M A Volkov; A Vorobyov; E Vznuzdaev; H Wang; Y Watanabe; S N White; C Witzig; F K Wohn; C L Woody; W Xie; K Yagi; S Yokkaichi; G R Young; I E Yushmanov; W A Zajc; Z Zhang; S Zhou; PHENIX Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.022301

Suppression of hadrons with large transverse momentum in central Au+Au collisions at root square[s(NN)] = 130 GeV

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jan 14;88(2):022301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.022301. Epub 2001 Dec 21.

Authors

K Adcox¹, S S Adler, N N Ajitanand, Y Akiba, J Alexander, L Aphecetche, Y Arai, S H Aronson, R Averbeck, T C Awes, K N Barish, P D Barnes, J Barrette, B Bassalleck, S Bathe, V Baublis, A Bazilevsky, S Belikov, F G Bellaiche, S T Belyaev, M J Bennett, Y Berdnikov, S Botelho, M L Brooks, D S Brown, N Bruner, D Bucher, H Buesching, V Bumazhnov, G Bunce, J Burward-Hoy, S Butsyk, T A Carey, P Chand, J Chang, W C Chang, L L Chavez, S Chernichenko, C Y Chi, J Chiba, M Chiu, R K Choudhury, T Christ, T Chujo, M S Chung, P Chung, V Cianciolo, B A Cole, D G D'Enterria, G David, H Delagrange, A Denisov, A Deshpande, E J Desmond, O Dietzsch, B V Dinesh, A Drees, A Durum, D Dutta, K Ebisu, Y V Efremenko, K El Chenawi, H En'yo, S Esumi, L Ewell, T Ferdousi, D E Fields, S L Fokin, Z Fraenkel, A Franz, A D Frawley, S-Y Fung, S Garpman, T K Ghosh, A Glenn, A L Godoi, Y Goto, S V Greene, M Grosse Perdekamp, S K Gupta, W Guryn, H-A Gustafsson, J S Haggerty, H Hamagaki, A G Hansen, H Hara, E P Hartouni, R Hayano, N Hayashi, X He, T K Hemmick, J M Heuser, M Hibino, J C Hill, D S Ho, K Homma, B Hong, A Hoover, T Ichihara, K Imai, M S Ippolitov, M Ishihara, B V Jacak, W Y Jang, J Jia, B M Johnson, S C Johnson, K S Joo, S Kametani, J H Kang, M Kann, S S Kapoor, S Kelly, B Khachaturov, A Khanzadeev, J Kikuchi, D J Kim, H J Kim, S Y Kim, Y G Kim, W W Kinnison, E Kistenev, A Kiyomichi, C Klein-Boesing, S Klinksiek, L Kochenda, V Kochetkov, D Koehler, T Kohama, D Kotchetkov, A Kozlov, P J Kroon, K Kurita, M J Kweon, Y Kwon, G S Kyle, R Lacey, J G Lajoie, J Lauret, A Lebedev, D M Lee, M J Leitch, X H Li, Z Li, D J Lim, M X Liu, X Liu, Z Liu, C F Maguire, J Mahon, Y I Makdisi, V I Manko, Y Mao, S K Mark, S Markacs, G Martinez, M D Marx, A Masaike, F Matathias, T Matsumoto, P L McGaughey, E Melnikov, M Merschmeyer, F Messer, M Messer, Y Miake, T E Miller, A Milov, S Mioduszewski, R E Mischke, G C Mishra, J T Mitchell, A K Mohanty, D P Morrison, J M Moss, F Mühlbacher, M Muniruzzaman, J Murata, S Nagamiya, Y Nagasaka, J L Nagle, Y Nakada, B K Nandi, J Newby, L Nikkinen, P Nilsson, S Nishimura, A S Nyanin, J Nystrand, E O'Brien, C A Ogilvie, H Ohnishi, I D Ojha, M Ono, V Onuchin, A Oskarsson, L Osterman, I Otterlund, K Oyama, L Paffrath, A P T Palounek, V S Pantuev, V Papavassiliou, S F Pate, T Peitzmann, A N Petridis, C Pinkenburg, R P Pisani, P Pitukhin, F Plasil, M Pollack, K Pope, M L Purschke, I Ravinovich, K F Read, K Reygers, V Riabov, Y Riabov, M Rosati, A A Rose, S S Ryu, N Saito, A Sakaguchi, T Sakaguchi, H Sako, T Sakuma, V Samsonov, T C Sangster, R Santo, H D Sato, S Sato, S Sawada, B R Schlei, Y Schutz, V Semenov, R Seto, T K Shea, I Shein, T-A Shibata, K Shigaki, T Shiina, Y H Shin, I G Sibiriak, D Silvermyr, K S Sim, J Simon-Gillo, C P Singh, V Singh, M Sivertz, A Soldatov, R A Soltz, S Sorensen, P W Stankus, N Starinsky, P Steinberg, E Stenlund, A Ster, S P Stoll, M Sugioka, T Sugitate, J P Sullivan, Y Sumi, Z Sun, M Suzuki, E M Takagui, A Taketani, M Tamai, K H Tanaka, Y Tanaka, E Taniguchi, M J Tannenbaum, J Thomas, J H Thomas, T L Thomas, W Tian, J Tojo, H Torii, R S Towell, I Tserruya, H Tsuruoka, A A Tsvetkov, S K Tuli, H Tydesjö, N Tyurin, T Ushiroda, H W van Hecke, C Velissaris, J Velkovska, M Velkovsky, A A Vinogradov, M A Volkov, A Vorobyov, E Vznuzdaev, H Wang, Y Watanabe, S N White, C Witzig, F K Wohn, C L Woody, W Xie, K Yagi, S Yokkaichi, G R Young, I E Yushmanov, W A Zajc, Z Zhang, S Zhou; PHENIX Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA.

PMID: 11801005
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.022301

Abstract

Transverse momentum spectra for charged hadrons and for neutral pions in the range 1 GeV/c<p(T)<5 GeV/c have been measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC in Au+Au collisions at root square[s(NN)] = 130 GeV. At high p(T) the spectra from peripheral nuclear collisions are consistent with scaling the spectra from p+p collisions by the average number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The spectra from central collisions are significantly suppressed when compared to the binary-scaled p+p expectation, and also when compared to similarly binary-scaled peripheral collisions, indicating a novel nuclear-medium effect in central nuclear collisions at RHIC energies.