Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.82.034909

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Volume

82

Issue

3

Pages

034909 (8 pages)

Abstract

Charged-particle spectra associated with direct photon Ydir) and π0 are measured in p+p and Au+Au collisions at center-of-mass energy √sNN=200 GeV with the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. A shower-shape analysis is used to partially discriminate between Ydirand π0. Assuming no associated charged particles in the γdir direction (near side) and small contribution from fragmentation photons (Yfrag), the associated charged-particle yields opposite to Ydir(away side) are extracted. In central Au+Au collisions, the charged-particle yields at midrapidity (|η|<1) and high transverse momentum (3 < PTassoc < 16 GeV/c) associated with γdir and π0 (|η|<0.9, 8 < PTtrig <16 GeV/c) are suppressed by a factor of 3–5 compared with p+p collisions. The observed suppression of the associated charged particles is similar for Ydir and π0 and independent of the γdirenergy within uncertainties. These measurements indicate that, in the kinematic range covered and within our current experimental uncertainties, the parton energy loss shows no sensitivity to the parton initial energy, path length, or color charge.

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Original Publication Citation

Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., . . . Collaboration, S. (2010). Parton energy loss in heavy-ion collisions via direct-photon and charged-particle azimuthal correlations. Physical Review C, 82(3), 034909. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.82.034909

ORCID

0000-0002-5680-1814 (Bueltmann)

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