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Mid-Rapidity Neutral Pion Production in Proton-Proto Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV

PHENIX Collaboration, S. S. Adler

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/0304038

Abstract

The invariant differential cross section for inclusive neutral pion production in p+p collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV has been measured at mid-rapidity |eta| < 0.35 over the range 1 < pT <~ 14 GeV/c by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. Predictions of next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations are consistent with these measurements. The precision of our result is sufficient to differentiate between prevailing gluon-to-pion fragmentation functions.

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