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Anomalous anti-proton to negative pion ratio as revealed by jet quenching at RHIC

Abstract

We study the apparent discrepancy between the standard PQCD predictions for the meson and baryon ratios and multiplicities at moderate high p{sub T}>2 GeV and recent experimental measurements in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s){sub NN}=130 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We show that the differences, most pronounced in central collisions, can be explained by a strong non-perturbative baryon Junction component, which dominates the currently accessible experimental p{sub T} window and the non-abelian energy loss of fast partons propagating through hot and dense medium. The recently introduced two component hybrid model, which combines a quenched jet PQCD calculation in the Gyulassy-Levai-Vitev (GLV) formalism and a phenomenological 'soft' part, is further elaborated to take into account the full 3D expansion in the pre-hadronization phase and include particle flavor dependent 'soft' inverse slopes as suggested by the baryon Junction picture. We show that such approach can resolve what seems to be a factor of {approx_equal}2 difference in the moderate high p{sub T} suppression of {pi}{sup 0} and h{sup -} as recently reported by the PHENIX collaboration. The observed quenching of the high p{sub T} particle spectra and the large p-bar/{pi}{sup -} and p/{pi}{sup +} ratios as a function of p{sub T}  More>>
Authors:
Vitev, Ivan; [1]  Gyulassy, Miklos; [1]  Collegium Budapest, Szentharomsag u.2 H-1014 Budapest (Hungary)]
  1. Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 W. 120th Street, New York, New York 10027 (United States)
Publication Date:
Apr 02, 2002
Product Type:
Journal Article
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings; Journal Volume: 610; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: INPC 2001: International nuclear physics conference on nuclear physics in the 21st century, Berkeley, CA (United States), 30 Jul - 3 Aug 2001; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1469986; (c) 2002 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); PBD: 2 Apr 2002
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; ANTIPROTONS; BAG MODEL; BROOKHAVEN RHIC; ENERGY LOSSES; GEV RANGE; GLUONS; GOLD 197 REACTIONS; GOLD 197 TARGET; JET MODEL; MULTIPLICITY; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PARTICLE RAPIDITY; PARTONS; PIONS MINUS; PIONS NEUTRAL; PIONS PLUS; QUARK MATTER
OSTI ID:
20618902
Country of Origin:
United States
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X; APCPCS; TRN: US03C3604062400
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 537-541
Announcement Date:
Aug 21, 2005

Citation Formats

Vitev, Ivan, Gyulassy, Miklos, and Collegium Budapest, Szentharomsag u.2 H-1014 Budapest (Hungary)]. Anomalous anti-proton to negative pion ratio as revealed by jet quenching at RHIC. United States: N. p., 2002. Web. doi:10.1063/1.1469986.
Vitev, Ivan, Gyulassy, Miklos, & Collegium Budapest, Szentharomsag u.2 H-1014 Budapest (Hungary)]. Anomalous anti-proton to negative pion ratio as revealed by jet quenching at RHIC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1469986
Vitev, Ivan, Gyulassy, Miklos, and Collegium Budapest, Szentharomsag u.2 H-1014 Budapest (Hungary)]. 2002. "Anomalous anti-proton to negative pion ratio as revealed by jet quenching at RHIC." United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1469986.
@misc{etde_20618902,
title = {Anomalous anti-proton to negative pion ratio as revealed by jet quenching at RHIC}
author = {Vitev, Ivan, Gyulassy, Miklos, and Collegium Budapest, Szentharomsag u.2 H-1014 Budapest (Hungary)]}
abstractNote = {We study the apparent discrepancy between the standard PQCD predictions for the meson and baryon ratios and multiplicities at moderate high p{sub T}>2 GeV and recent experimental measurements in Au+Au collisions at {radical}(s){sub NN}=130 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We show that the differences, most pronounced in central collisions, can be explained by a strong non-perturbative baryon Junction component, which dominates the currently accessible experimental p{sub T} window and the non-abelian energy loss of fast partons propagating through hot and dense medium. The recently introduced two component hybrid model, which combines a quenched jet PQCD calculation in the Gyulassy-Levai-Vitev (GLV) formalism and a phenomenological 'soft' part, is further elaborated to take into account the full 3D expansion in the pre-hadronization phase and include particle flavor dependent 'soft' inverse slopes as suggested by the baryon Junction picture. We show that such approach can resolve what seems to be a factor of {approx_equal}2 difference in the moderate high p{sub T} suppression of {pi}{sup 0} and h{sup -} as recently reported by the PHENIX collaboration. The observed quenching of the high p{sub T} particle spectra and the large p-bar/{pi}{sup -} and p/{pi}{sup +} ratios as a function of p{sub T} are found to be consistent with a creation of a deconfined phase and non-abelian energy loss of fast partons in a plasma of initial gluon rapidity density dN{sup g}/dy{approx}1000.}
doi = {10.1063/1.1469986}
journal = []
issue = {1}
volume = {610}
journal type = {AC}
place = {United States}
year = {2002}
month = {Apr}
}