Evidence for Hot, Bulk QCD Matter and Quenching of Jets at RHIC
- Physics Department, Yale University, P.O. Box 208124, 272 Whitney Avenue, New Haven CT, 06520-8124 (United States)
Results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) depict formation of a hot, dense system at an energy density greater than 5 GeV/fm3, well above that where hadrons exist. The measured relative particle abundances are reproduced by statistical-thermal models with a temperature and baryo-chemical potential at the quark-hadron phase boundary predicted by lattice QCD. A large amount of collective flow is observed in collisions at RHIC and provides evidence of strong pressure gradients very early in the collision, at a time when the system is dense and highly interacting. Hard-scattering, suppression of large transverse momentum hadrons, and quenching of di-jets are observed in central Au + Au collisions but not in d + Au collisions, providing evidence for extreme energy loss of partons attempting to propagate through the hot, dense matter at RHIC.
- OSTI ID:
- 20630719
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 753, Issue 1; Conference: HCP2004: 15. topical conference on hadron collider physics, East Lansing, MI (United States), 14-18 Jun 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1896694; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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