Jet quenching as a probe of gluon plasma formation
Abstract
We study, in a pQCD calculation augmented by nuclear effects, the jet energy loss needed to reproduce the pi0 spectra in Au+Au collisions at large pT, measured by PHENIX at RHIC. The transverse width of the parton momentum distributions (intrinsic-kT) is used phenomenologically to obtain a reliable baseline pp result. Jet quenching is applied to the nuclear spectra (including shadowing and multiscattering) to fit the data.
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