Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072304 (2003) [6 pages]

Evidence from d+Au Measurements for Final-State Suppression of High-pT Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

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J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration
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Received 18 June 2003; revised 8 August 2003; published 15 August 2003

We report measurements of single-particle inclusive spectra and two-particle azimuthal distributions of charged hadrons at high transverse momentum (high pT) in minimum bias and central d+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200  GeV. The inclusive yield is enhanced in d+Au collisions relative to binary-scaled p+p collisions, while the two-particle azimuthal distributions are very similar to those observed in p+p collisions. These results demonstrate that the strong suppression of the inclusive yield and back-to-back correlations at high pT previously observed in central Au+Au collisions are due to final-state interactions with the dense medium generated in such collisions.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.072304
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.072304
PACS: 25.75.Dw, 25.75.Gz

* Electronic address: www.star.bnl.gov

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