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Can hadronic rescattering explain the "jet quenching" at RHIC?

David Hardtke, Thomas J. Humanic

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0405064

Abstract

Recent RHIC data have shown novel nuclear modifications of moderate to high pt particle production in central Au+Au collisions, including a suppression of hadron production and a disappearance of back-to-back hadron pairs. In this paper, we investigate whether final-state hadronic interactions of the jet fragments can reproduce the RHIC data. We find that hadronic rescattering can account for the disappearance of back-to-back hadron pairs, but cannot reproduce other features of the RHIC data.

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