David Silvermyr
Senior lecturer
Common suppression pattern of eta and pi(0) mesons at high transverse momentum in Au plus Au collisions at root SNN=200 GeV
Author
- SS Adler
- S Afanasiev
- C Aidala
- NN Ajitanand
- Y Akiba
- J Alexander
- R Amirikas
- L Aphecetche
- SH Aronson
- R Averbeck
- TC Awes
- R Azmoun
- V Babintsev
- A Baldisseri
- KN Barish
- PD Barnes
- B Bassalleck
- S Bathe
- S Batsouli
- V Baublis
- A Bazilevsky
- S Belikov
- Y Berdnikov
- S Bhagavatula
- JG Boissevain
- H Borel
- S Borenstein
- ML Brooks
- DS Brown
- N Bruner
- D Bucher
- H Buesching
- V Bumazhnov
- G Bunce
- JM Burward-Hoy
- S Butsyk
- X Camard
- JS Chai
- P Chand
- WC Chang
- S Chernichenko
- CY Chi
- J Chiba
- M Chiu
- IJ Choi
- J Choi
- RK Choudhury
- T Chujo
- V Cianciolo
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- BA Cole
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- D d'Enterria
- G David
- H Delagrange
- A Denisov
- A Deshpande
- EJ Desmond
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- O Drapier
- A Drees
- Rickard du Rietz
- A Durum
- D Dutta
- YV Efremenko
- K El Chenawi
- A Enokizono
- H En'yo
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- L Ewell
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- A Hoover
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- K Imai
- D Isenhower
- M Ishihara
- M Issah
- A Isupov
- BV Jacak
- WY Jang
- Y Jeong
- J Jia
- O Jinnouchi
- BM Johnson
- SC Johnson
- KS Joo
- D Jouan
- S Kametani
- N Kamihara
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- K Katou
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- B Khachaturov
- A Khanzadeev
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- DJ Kim
- DW Kim
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- GB Kim
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- K Kiyoyama
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- Y Kuroki
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- Y Kwon
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- R Lacey
- V Ladygin
- JG Lajoie
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- S Lee
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- H Lim
- A Litvinenko
- MX Liu
- Y Liu
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- YI Makdisi
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- H Masui
- F Matathias
- T Matsumoto
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- E Melnikov
- F Messer
- Y Miake
- J Milan
- TE Miller
- A Milov
- S Mioduszewski
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- D Mukhopadhyay
- M Muniruzzaman
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- S Nagamiya
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- Y Riabov
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- Y Tanaka
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- M Velkovsky
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- XR Wang
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- FK Wohn
- CL Woody
- W Xie
- Y Yang
- A Yanovich
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- C Zhang
- S Zhou
- SJ Zhou
- L Zolin
Summary, in English
Inclusive transverse momentum spectra of eta mesons have been measured within p(T)=2-10 GeV/c at midrapidity by the PHENIX experiment in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. In central Au+Au the eta yields are significantly suppressed compared to peripheral Au+Au, d+Au, and p+p yields scaled by the corresponding number of nucleon-nucleon collisions. The magnitude, centrality, and p(T) dependence of the suppression is common, within errors, for eta and pi(0). The ratio of eta to pi(0) spectra at high p(T) amounts to 0.40 < R-eta/pi(0)< 0.48 for the three systems, in agreement with the world average measured in hadronic and nuclear reactions and, at large scaled momentum, in e(+)e(-) collisions.
Department/s
- Department of Physics
- Particle and nuclear physics
Publishing year
2006
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical Review Letters
Volume
96
Issue
20
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1079-7114