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![Nuclear modification factors RCP for π + + π − and p + ¯ p in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions. The point-to-point systematic uncertainties are shown as the shaded boxes around the data points. The dark shaded bands show the normalization systematic uncertainty in the number of binary collisions. The solid lines show jet quenching predictions for pions [27].](profile/Lee-Barnby/publication/6644615/figure/fig2/AS:669272565096470@1536578422521/Nuclear-modification-factors-RCP-for-p-p-and-p-p-in-200-GeV-Au-Au-collisions.png)
Nuclear modification factors RCP for π + + π − and p + ¯ p in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions. The point-to-point systematic uncertainties are shown as the shaded boxes around the data points. The dark shaded bands show the normalization systematic uncertainty in the number of binary collisions. The solid lines show jet quenching predictions for pions [27].
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![FIG. 4: The p/π + and ¯ p/π − ratios from d+Au [21, 22] and Au+Au...](profile/Lee-Barnby/publication/6644615/figure/fig4/AS:669272565088269@1536578422553/The-p-p-and-p-p-ratios-from-d-Au-21-22-and-Au-Au-collisions-at-sNN-200-GeV_Q320.jpg)
Transverse momentum spectra of pi+/-, p, and p up to 12 GeV/c at midrapidity in centrality selected Au + Au collisions at square root sNN=200 GeV are presented. In central Au + Au collisions, both pi +/- and p(p) show significant suppression with respect to binary scaling at pT approximately >4 GeV/c. Protons and antiprotons are less suppressed tha...
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... to momentum resolution (0-5%) and half of the difference between the two methods to extract the proton yields (3-6%). The systematic errors are added in quadrature. The spectra from the TOFr and TPC mea- surements agree within systematic errors in the overlap- ping p T region. The correlations of the systematic errors on the particle ratios in Fig. 2, 3 and 4 are properly taken into ...
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... Fig. 2 shows pion (π + + π − ) and proton (p + ¯ p) R CP for Au+Au collisions. In 0-12% central Au+Au colli- sions, the pion yield shows strong suppression with R CP between 0.2 and 0.4 at p T > ∼ 3 GeV/c. This is consis- tent with the jet quenching calculation shown in Fig. 2 (a) [27]. For each centrality, the R CP values for protons peak at ...
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... Fig. 2 shows pion (π + + π − ) and proton (p + ¯ p) R CP for Au+Au collisions. In 0-12% central Au+Au colli- sions, the pion yield shows strong suppression with R CP between 0.2 and 0.4 at p T > ∼ 3 GeV/c. This is consis- tent with the jet quenching calculation shown in Fig. 2 (a) [27]. For each centrality, the R CP values for protons peak at p T ∼ 2-3 GeV/c. At intermediate p T , p and ¯ p are less suppressed, with respect to binary scaling, than π ± , but a significant suppression is still observed in central Au+Au collisions. This is in contrast to nuclear mod- ification factors in d+Au collisions, where ...
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... results in Fig. 2 clearly show different R CP for pro- tons and pions at intermediate p T . A similar effect has been observed for K 0 S and Λ [9], with K 0 S (Λ) R CP simi- lar to pion (proton) R CP . The grouping of particle pro- duction according to the number of constituent quarks has been attributed to quark coalescence at hadroniza- tion from a ...
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... This is in agreement with AKK fragmentation functions [15] which describe the STAR data in p+p col- lisions [22], showing that gluon fragmentation contributes to 40% of pion production at p T ≃ 10 GeV/c while more than 80% of p + ¯ p are from gluon fragmentation. At high p T , the nuclear modification factor of protons is similar to that of pions (Fig. 2) and the p/π + , ¯ p/π − , and ¯ p/p ratios in central Au+Au collisions are similar to those in p+p and d+Au collisions [22]. These observa- tions indicate that at sufficiently high p T , fragmentation in central Au+Au and p+p events is similar and that there is no evidence of different energy loss for quarks and gluons in the medium. ...
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... In this paper, to extract kinetic freeze-out temperature and radial flow velocity, we use blast-wave model with Tsallis statistics [21][22][23] and compare to Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics one [1,24,25] to simultaneously fit all the transverse momentum spectra of hadrons produced at mid-(pseudo)rapidity in √ s NN = 7.7, 11.5, 14. 5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62. 4 and 200 GeV Au + Au collisions at RHIC [17,24,[26][27][28][29][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] and in √ s NN = 2.76 TeV [30] and 5.02 TeV [31] Pb + Pb collisions at the LHC. Such a systematic study on collision energy and centrality dependence of radial flow velocity, kinetic freeze-out temperature and the degree of non-equilibrium from RHIC to the LHC energy range may shed light on the underlying physics in these collisions. ...
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... The exploration of the QCD phase diagram, in the plane of temperature (T ) and the baryon chemical potential (µ B ), is one of the primary objectives of high-energy heavy-ion collision experiments [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. During the initial stages of Au+Au collisions at top RHIC energies, there is evidence of a phase with partonic degrees of freedom [1][2][3][4][8][9][10][11][12][13], which later transits into one with hadronic degrees of freedom [14][15][16][17]. Relevant evidence includes strong suppression of high transverse momentum (p T ) hadron production in Au+Au collisions relative to p + p collisions [1][2][3][4][8][9][10][11], large elliptic flow (v 2 ) for hadrons containing light as well as strange and charm valence quarks, and the difference between baryon and meson v 2 at intermediate p T [18]. ...
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