Neutral pion production in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: B. I. Abelev
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• Author: Mirko Planinić
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• Author: Nikola Poljak
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• Author: J. X. Zuo
• Collaboration: STAR Collaboration
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; (Department of Physics)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: NATURAL SCIENCES; Biology

Abstract (english)

The results of midrapidity (0<y<0.8) neutral pion spectra over an extended transverse momentum range (1<pT<12 GeV/c) in √sNN=200 GeV Au+Au collisions, measured by the STAR experiment, are presented. The neutral pions are reconstructed from photons measured either by the STAR Barrel Electro-Magnetic Calorimeter or by the Time Projection Chamber via tracking of conversion electron-positron pairs. Our measurements are compared to previously published π± and π0 results. The nuclear modification factors R_CP and R_AA of π0 are also presented as a function of pT. In the most central Au+Au collisions, the binary collision scaled π0 yield at high pT is suppressed by a factor of about 5 compared to the expectation from the yield of p+p collisions. Such a large suppression is in agreement with previous observations for light quark mesons and is consistent with the scenario that partons suffer considerable energy loss in the dense medium formed in central nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

• Keywords (english): pi0; hadroproduction; radiative decay
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
• Numbering: vol. 80, no. 4, 044905
• p-ISSN: 0556-2813
• e-ISSN: 1089-490X
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.80.044905
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:418826
• Publication: 2009
• Project: Number: 119-0982887-1006; Title (croatian): Istraživanje hadronskih sustava upotrebom relativističkih projektila; Leader: Mirko Planinić; Jurisdiction: Croatia; Funding stream: ZP
• Document URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.80.044905
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Public note: Copyright (2009) by the American Physical Society. Received 16 July 2009; revised manuscript received 21 September 2009; published 23 October 2009.
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