Article
Quantitative constraints on the transport properties of hot partonic matter from semi-inclusive single high transverse momentum pion suppression in Au plus Au collisions at root S-NN=200 GeV
Physical Review C
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
6-1-2008
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.77.064907
Abstract
The PHENIX experiment has measured the suppression of semi-inclusive single high-transverse-momentum pi(0)'s in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN) = 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 dN(g)/dy, the medium transport coefficient <(q) over cap >, or the initial energy-loss parameter epsilon(0). We find that high-transverse-momentum pi(0) 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.
Copyright Owner
American Physical Society
Copyright Date
2008
Language
en
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application/pdf
Citation Information
Andrew Adare, Sergey Belikov, Paul Constantin, Nathan C. Grau, et al.. "Quantitative constraints on the transport properties of hot partonic matter from semi-inclusive single high transverse momentum pion suppression in Au plus Au collisions at root S-NN=200 GeV" Physical Review C Vol. 77 Iss. 6 (2008) p. 064907 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/211/
This article is published as Adare, A., S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, J. Alexander et al. "Quantitative constraints on the transport properties of hot partonic matter from semi-inclusive single high transverse momentum pion suppression in Au+ Au collisions at s NN= 200 GeV." Physical Review C 77, no. 6 (2008): 064907. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevC.77.064907. Posted with permission.